benvenuto in italia!

sono arrivata! after a long flight and no sleep, i made it and so did my bags (hurray)! then we waited for 2 hrs at the airport and then came a 2 hr bus ride to viterbo. so lots of sitting. but i got to see lots of pretty scenery from the bus. everything i saw, including what i saw when i landed, looked just like those postcards of italy you always see. with the cute red tiled roofs and the fields and the vineyards. its pretty cool. viterbo is a small city surrounded by a medieval wall and has all these old churches up on a hill built like 1,000 years ago out of volcanic rock! i can't believe how old everything is, it really makes me remember how young the US is. i've already heard so much italian being spoken, not all of which i could understand, which i hate. i need to learn more fast!