Welcome back!

I'm doing awesome and hope you guys too. If not then reading my blog will make you feel better..:)

                                                           
I'm having the time of my life. This exchange has brought so many changes in me. When i look back to my olden days, I'm like what?! Was I like that- I was so stupid. I'm really lucky that I got this opportunity to explore my own-self! As I knew there would be many ups and downs during my exchange this was the most uncertain one- The 20th of December I got a call from my dad that my Grandfather passed away. My dad was trying to convince me not to cry and the very next moment I broke down into tears. It was unbelievable for me 'cause I was really close to my Grandpa. It was the toughest day of my life as I'm really sensitive to these things and I needed my mom and my dad to hug me and make me feel better. My parents and my sister her tried their best to distract me and I'm very grateful but that day I was like broken into pieces. My grandpa lived for 93 years and mind it- he lived a very healthy life. I wanted to be with him during his last days but that's life- We have to accept certain unwanted facts in our lives. These are the words said by a person whom I respect and love from the bottom of my heart. Thanks dad. I sometimes miss your bitter advices though..haha I promise you dad, once I'm back in India even your bitter advises would be like a sweetener to me..:) 
This exchange has definitely made me stronger than I was even during my tough times.

I wanted to keep it as my desktop wallpaper but I just couldn't, it makes me more sad. I still need some time. But I can always put it on my blog praying for his sole saying that he will always remain in my memories. 

I have so much to talk about. Starting with Christmas- It's a big festival, of course! Every time my family goes to Udine to celebrate Christmas with my mom's family. So this time we decided to celebrate in Cordovado with my dad's brother's family and my Grandma.  

There was a dinner arranged for us with good food and delicious sweets! I became kind of emotional 'cause the atmosphere was like similar to my family back in India. The festivals, family gatherings, cousins- it was like back home. I'm so glad that my Italian family considers me as a member of their family. It was a great time seeing the actual Christmas.


Gift time!! :) We exchanged gifts with each other. I gifted my families something Indian. Hope they liked it. I got good enough gifts too. Thanks for the gifts, I really liked them.


I saw Rapunzel an animated film in Italian with my cousins- fun as always!

In the evening I was invited to watch a new film 'Capodanno a New York' in Italian. (New Year's Eve in New York) I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Carlotta with whom I watched the film. I actually understood most of it. I'm happy..:)

                          On the 26th, I went snow-boarding with my dad. He did skiing. I was it for the first time in my life and mind it it's not at easy as it seems like. There's a big role of balancing. I could hardly stand on it for more than 60 seconds. I must say, I atleast tried my best and I could somehow figure out something about the style. Next time it would be better! :) The scenery with snow-covered mountains was really beautiful..

 



The 27th, 28th and 29th I went scouting in the mountains where the temperature was in either in negative or in single digits! It was interesting as I was being a scout for the first time.

That's my awesome scout group. None of them was ready for a photograph. I had to drag them for one and fortunately snapped a good one.

We first did a service which is one of the aims of Scout. So we first painted the windows of the person at whose house we were staying and then we cleaned the garden and cut woods for fire. It was a great feeling doing those kind of services. 

We saw a dam which has a fabulous history behind it. The dam was built in between the mountains-it's like a valley though. Unfortunately, one day the mountain on the reservoir side slided and all the water overflew from the sides of the dam killing thousands of people. The amazing thing was nothing happened to the dam. Even today there's the dam but no water anymore where the mountain slided! That's interesting,  isn't it?

The beautiful waterfall in front of the dam.
We went to a simple place in the mountains but it was still way too beautiful.

Isn't it like Paradise?! :) With crystal clear blue-green water.

 

            

                                         

Can you see the ice on the pipe?  That's the ice on the ground (right) after falling from the top. It was too beautiful not to snap a picture.


The 29th Evening, I departed for Milan. Milan- Oh yeah!

                                       

Milan looks like a Paradise! It was really beautiful at the New year's eve in front of the Cathedral. There was also a free concert in front of the Cathedral. There was a huge huge crowd. Every single person present there was having fun to his fullest! It was definitely one of my best New Year's Eves though Milan is a bit expensive.. hehe

 The 5th, 6th and 7th, I went to visit Florence, Pisa and the nearby places like Volterra, San Gimignano, Siena. It was a nice time with my family.
       


                                                                           
      

Don't I look like an Italian? haha..On the 20th January was my presentation on India in Italian. As we didn't have that much time to speak, I made a video with many photos and I added some notes in Italian. People really appreciated it and asked many questions regarding it. Successfully I could answer in Italian almost everything that was asked. Some of them told me that they want to come to India after seeing such a beautiful presentation of India. This means my presentation went pretty well. :)

I know I wrote too much as I didn't update it since a long time. Sorry for taking your time. Hope you enjoyed and see you soon till then be happy be healthy! :)

Ciao! :)

Hello everyone!
I'm awesome and hope the one who is reading is awesome too. Christmas- Ah! I love Christmas.. Everyone here has started decorating their houses with lighting and Christmas trees.

                                     
The decorations and my pretty Christmas tree at my house. It's beautifully decorated with lighting by my mom. 

This is the largest Cemetery of Italy- A tribute to the soldiers those lost their lives during the wars. 

This is something interesting!

There are names written on the wall those who sacrificed their lives and on the top it is written PRESENTE meaning present! :) :)

This is an unique fruit. it's a lemon-you can imagine how big it is according to the hand. The middle part is sour like a lemon and the white part is sweet. Isn't that hard to believe? I love this fruit.

Went to Slovenia unexpectedly, we must thank Gillian-my friend's host parents who took us to Slovenia.

My right leg is in Italy and my left leg is in Slovenia. This feeling was awesome!

Sacher- This is an Austrian sweet which I had it in Slovenia and at every bite of it I was like OMG! This is so good, this is so delicious!

                                

Ok, so you gotta see this carefully!

There is a bicycle that you see, obviously..haha but the thing is its standing without support! Magic, isn't it? Well here is the secret, it is resting on a paddle with the support of the fence or whatever it is. The man just kept it and went away within a second and I was there wondering what the hell did he do with that bike!

(: Intelligent Italians! :)

This is the mixture of Italian-Indian food.

I boiled Italian pasta with Indian Maggi (a type of noodles) Masala which I brought it from India and had it. It was obviously delicious!

And yeah I forgot to tell you something- I put on 5 kilos so far! Work is still in process! :/ :|

 The last Rotary Dinner was a Christmas dinner. So we got the beautiful scarfs with the Rotary banner on it as a gift. This was my Italian dad, Andrea's idea. This is for him- "Dad, I know you follow my blog regularly so I would like to share something..haha. The idea of scarf was amazing! Grazie mille!" (Thank you very much)

Just had a good farewell for the Norwegians who went back to Norway after their lovely three months' stay in Italy. It was really hard to say Good-Bye. I'm gonna miss them! 

Lastly I would like to share a video of my cat, Michele..I call it Mickey! It's a funny video for me. Hope it's the same for you!

Have fun! :)

Hence Proved, Cats are very smart! haha I love this cat! :)

I should wind up now! Hope to see you soon. Be happy, be healthy like me.. haha

Arrivederci! (See you soon)

Ciao

Welcome to my blog!

So how am I at blogging? Are you all enjoying? I would love to get your comments if you have something to say. Though I am getting better at it, there is always room to improve.

Aww! They are so cute, aren't they? They are the best brothers in the whole world that I have seen so far! :)

    

This is one of the funniest mugs I have ever seen. Daffy Duck! :)

On the 17th November it was my three months in Italia! Mi piace! (i like it)
I went to Austria for a Rotary meeting. The name of the place was Sankt Veit approximately 2.30 hours from my place. We took a bus. it was pretty cold in Austria around 2°C. When we reached Austria, it was kinds strange 'cause suddenly everything was in German. Austrians are pretty good at English too.

With the help of this Gentleman, i learnt some random words in German like- Good evening, my name is Grishma from India, bye, thanks and all stuff!

When i entered the restaurant, I saw an Exchange Student like which I did not expect. She is Wakana from japan but she is being hosted by Austria. I am really glad that I could meet her.

It was so strange that within just few hours we were in another country and everything was in German!

Guess what is my Dad doing. Well on that day the temperature was 0°C so there was frost gathered on the car. So he is removing the ice. It was pretty much cold that day.

On the 19th the Exchange Students from my district were going to Cremona. There was a festival named Torrone- it's a cake festival and everyone eats Torrone there.
  

This is Torrone. It's amazing. There are a lot of different kinds of Torrones so it's hard to explain in particular. But this one was with chocolates-loved by everyone! :)


This is the biggest dog ever seen in my existence! I am kinda afraid of dogs and my friends here make fun of it.. haha.. but I have almost succeed in overcoming this fear!

The Exchange Students of district 2060 and district 2050. It was so nice meeting them. Felt like back home! :)


The next day I took Torrone for my class. They were all so excited to have it. This made me more closer to my classmates. :)

On 25th, we went to Trieste from school trip. We were going to go in Physics University and do some experiments. I chose to do cosmetics with my friends. We were going to make lip-stick, hand-lotion and perfume. We also learnt how to make gummies (candies).

This is what we made- Lipstick, Cream, perfume..

My dad's 50th Birthday. Golden Jubilee- Oh yeah, a big party. He offered us a big cake which was amazingly delicious. :) Grazie Dad!

On the 3rd of December, I met Daniele- last year's exchange student to Italy from South Africa. Of course now she speaks Italian very well. I hope I become fluent like her very soon. It was really nice meeting her. 

Hope to see you soon. Thank you, take care..

Ciao! :)