News from Sam

hi mom, cortona is wonderful! are you and grandma still planning on coming? you should because it is so beautiful here. everyone in the program is really cool too.

well, i can't talk much, computer time is limited and my clothes should be done soon. we have two washing machines and i figured i should use it to wash egypt dust out of it, but it has taken two and a half hours so far for one load! but me and three other guys were just planning bocci with some old italian guy. it was a lot of fun. it was a little different than how we play though.

let me know if you guys are coming, cuase that would be so much fun. oh, and i am talking to martin about going up to germany for a few days to experience the world cup, so hopefully that will happen.

oh, and i am taking italian instead of jewelry making. i thought you would like that.

ok, well, i should be better now about keeping in touch. classes start tomorrow, so i will email you to let you know how they go. talk to you later, tell everyone i said hi! love you! snuggle sofi. sam

-- The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.-- Nelson Henderson