I have Internet!

Woo-hoo!  I finally have Internet at my place.  I'm not completely sure when it started working.  My landlord came by on Tuesday to help me with it, but before he arrived I turned on the router and tried to bring up the problem pages on the web, but it worked!  Everything all of a sudden worked even though the router still didn't have all the appropriate lights.  The landlord came over, we put in the username and password information and now I'm good to go.  I think I'll be fine from here on out.  And the connection seems to be pretty fast.  I still haven't gotten to test Skype yet though.

So anyway, life in Italy gets better every day.  I've figured out that in combination with people not speaking to me in Italian when I first got here, I was also frustrated with the lack of help from Rotary and also the lack of company.  But things are better now.  I have fantastic friends that are American, British, and Italian.  I also have been getting great help from certain Rotary members and the Roteract.  I went to a murder mystery dinner with the Roteract kids and last night had a fantastic dinner with the Todescans, a family of Rotarians.  I love that family.  We speak all in Italian, but the Mrs. speaks English just in case I don't get something, plus they feed me fantastic food and lent me an old bike today!

Anyway, all is going well here in Firenze.  I can't write too much now because I have to write several essays for Rotary before next week.  In English and Italian...ugh...