Life is Good: Grazie Mille

A week of being sick can leave you doing only one thing...thinking.

I started thinking of reasons why being sick at home would be so much easier than being sick in Europe.

Well, for one thing, the doctors office is much faster moving and efficient.

Oh yea, and the doctors at home speak English.

I don't have to guess if I'm taking the correct amount of medication.

And I can have my mother to check my forehead when I am running a temperature...and my dad to say, "you're not throwing up right? You're fine."

Ugh. Not to mention, the Steelers lost, which every student here from the West Coast was sure to remind me.

Without making you depressed with more negative thoughts, let me leave it at the point that things were looking pretty gloomy at the moment.

My head was bringing me down more than my sickness!

So, determined to not get stuck in this rut of a detrimental bad mood while in Italy, I decided to change my thoughts' directions.

After all, it's pretty awesome that I get to be sick IN ITALY!!! How many people can say that?? Not many, considering that 1% of students in America study abroad.

So to everyone in the states, I know, be jealous, I am sick in Italy. :) So cool.

While on this track, I figured I'd compose of the list of things that I am thankful to be blessed with that really do make my mood that much brighter.