Address

My address here is:
Ryan Nestler
Via Vecchia Provinciale 32 Archi
89121 Reggio Calabria, Italy

all mail\phone calls\visits\emails\comments are more than welcome!! I miss America!! haha

Reggio!!

So things are still going... I am still not completely loving it here and am trying to wait patiently for that day to come....but I am having a good time...

Had a little incident yesterday when one of the woman from the Phillipines (Jenny, the one who is pregnant, and I was told was "moody") told me what to do with the kids. I did not appreciate it and immediately wanted to go home..but felt much better after writing in my journal and calming down for a little bit. It was nteresting, but not a big deal in hindsight.

Today is very very very windy and I have now discovered that attempting to ride a really old, too small, flat bike uphill against the wind on roads that are pretty much rocks and dirt, not such a good idea....I fell coming around a corner as I was trying to get back on the bike and the wind blew it over under me (just thought I would give you all a little mental picture, and let everyone know that unfortunately my excellent grace has followed me to Itay). Oh the things I will do to get to the internet!!!

Finally moving to Reggio tomorrow and I am very excited!!!...

Thats pretty much all for now as I am now in a different internet cafe but now my camera card doesnt seem to fit into the USB port...I promise I am really trying to load some pictures!!

Ciao!

Settling in... and the kids..

So I am now in an internet cafe, as I came into Reggio with Claudia to go to the police station which of course, like everything else in Italy, didnt work the first time. So I will have to come again this week, but I dont really mind because it is kind of nice to get out of the house every once in awhile. Otherwise, the days with the kids are the same thing over and over again. It will be better next week because they are all in school so I at least have 4 hours a day to myself to get better acquainted with the house and the city, and get myself situated, or just relax. Right now I have the kids all day long, and while I have help it does get a little tiring...4 kids is a lot! haha

Anyway, things here are pretty good. The kids are getting used to me. The triplets are 4 and their names are Guiseppe, Vincenzo, and Maria Luisa (Milla). The 2 year old is Chiara. The are really cute and also very difficult at times. So far Guiseppe is the best one. Out of everyone he is always the one to listen and he is the sweetest. He will gladly sit with me and talk with me one on one. The parents are Claudia and Antonio. The people from the Phillipines, who cook, clean, and help with the kids are Jenny, Flora, and Renall (?).

I am anxious to get to Reggio next week and move in to air conditioning!, and also to get situated in my room as right now I am still living out of my luggage...

That is about all for now...nothing too exciting.. I think from now on I will have Friday afternoon and all day Saturdays off so this week I will probably just go into town but maybe next week I will try to venture out to Sicily, probably just for the day on Saturday. It is only a 20 minute ferry ride from our house.

My italian is coming along as now I can understand a lot and will soon start to speak a little...

I hope all is well with everyone and feel free to email or post comments or even call... I got a cell phone and my number is 3204527852...to call from America you dial 01139 32045 27852. I dont know much about how much it is or anything.

I still have awhile until we go back to the house so I will try now to post some pictures....

Arrival and Bocale

I felt much better after talking to my mom and started to get excited to meet the family. I arrived in Reggio and Antonio (the dad) picked me up with all four kids (who are adorable). At that point I was happy and glad to finally be somewhere.
We went straight to their house at the sea, which is in Bocale. Unfortunately there is no air conditioning so it was very hot but it is very nice and I was happy to be there. Showering was interesting (I will post a picture whenever I can of the "shower" that I use here.
Anyway, everything is going well here but I miss home and my family and Brett sooo very much!!! I have to go now as I am going with Claudia (the mom) to the house in Reggio (the one they live in during the year), and I am very excited because it sounds very big and nice from what I have heard. I have some pictures and will post them and more later.

Ciao!!

Italian

PS. This is very confusing because I forgot about the fact that this website will be in Italian over here....am guessing which buttons to push...

Traveling

Well it has definitely been a very emotional week. Leaving was very hard and I cried my eyes out in the airport and on the airplane. The flight was ok, and I slept on and off for about half of it, which was good. Then I got to Rome....that was my first interesting\terrible experience. I found my way to my next gate and went to check in for my flight to Calabria, only to find that I had to go back where I started to get my bags and check in again. I finally went back to get my bags (up and down a million elevators and escalators and past 3 Ferrarri stores, which I took pictures of for Brett and also having to go through the checkpoint and security a total of about 3 times, all while speaking no Italian). Then I get my bags and go to check in and my bags are overweight (as they were in Newark but here the minimum is even less) So I end up having to pay 100 euros (i dont even know how may dollars that is)!!! By this point no on was paying attention to me and I was on the verge of tears. I just wanted to get settled at my gate so I could call my mom and Brett and gain some sanity!

Then I get to the phone and try for 20 minutes to call my mom with my phone card which wont work so eventually I just call with my credit card and am absolutely sobbing at this point. Needless to say my first experience in Italy not so much a positive one....

Welcome!

Welcome!

So 2 days from right now I will be in the airport and I am officially getting a little nervous/excited too. I think for the past week every dream I have had has had to do with Italy in some way.

As of right now the only way to contact me is here or through email (my email is ryetoasty@aol.com). Once I get there I will know my address (which I have right now but I'm not quite sure how to write it out), and possibly a phone number where I can be reached.

I just wanted to officially post something so everyone has something to look at...but now back to packing....

Me

So since I can't seem to get a picture on my profile yet, here it is for now.