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I reckon I should update this thing, seeing as how I've lived for more than two weeks in Italy now. My wife and I arrived here late last month, and I like to think we're settling in more easily than we (or I, anyway) had anticipated. We're staying on base at the moment, but we've been out into the city a handful of times to visit friends and have dinner and do a bit of shopping. We've also looked at about a dozen places to live, and if everything goes according to plan, we should be able to move into the place we fell in love with within a month or two. Fingers crossed. We have also been slowly looking at cars to purchase, but we still have some time before we NEED to buy one.
It's still a bit surreal, to be honest. ....Okay, maybe 'surreal' isn't the right word. There was a bit of culture shock for me within my first few days here. That's to be expected, I guess. But after talking with some friends here, finally getting out into the town and city around us, and talking with some of the locals and other service members who have been here a while, I'm quickly getting my Italian feet underneath me. That being said, I feel like the 'surrealness' I'm feeling is more of a strange feeling that it doesn't feel that strange to be here. 'Here' being in Italy. 'Here' being married. 'Here' being almost 35. I'm beginning to feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be, for the most part. And the surreal feeling that's coming along with that is mostly, I think, due to the fact that I spent so long never feeling that way.
It's still a bit surreal, to be honest. ....Okay, maybe 'surreal' isn't the right word. There was a bit of culture shock for me within my first few days here. That's to be expected, I guess. But after talking with some friends here, finally getting out into the town and city around us, and talking with some of the locals and other service members who have been here a while, I'm quickly getting my Italian feet underneath me. That being said, I feel like the 'surrealness' I'm feeling is more of a strange feeling that it doesn't feel that strange to be here. 'Here' being in Italy. 'Here' being married. 'Here' being almost 35. I'm beginning to feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be, for the most part. And the surreal feeling that's coming along with that is mostly, I think, due to the fact that I spent so long never feeling that way.