PCS Italy - 6 Month Mark

It's here...we've finally reached the 6 month mark of living in Italy!  Whoopee.

Everyone said it would take about 6 months to adjust (it's my first PCS ANYWHERE so is this true of other places?).

Guess what...I still don't like this place.  I've gotten to the point where I just shrug my shoulders at everything and say "only in Italy."

Whenever other wives ask me how I like it here, I just smile and tell them it's not my thing.  If they are one of those happy-go-lucky "I LOVE ITALY" peeps, then all the more to them.

I only peel paint if I start to get lectured about what my problem is about not liking this place.  Believe me, I've heard it all.

You have to embrace where you are.
You are going to be miserable for the next few years if you don't learn to like it here.
You should realize there are people out there that would die for the opportunity you have.


You aren't going to tell a someone that doesn't enjoy the taste of chocolate that there are wrong, that there are starving children in India that would die for such a treat, or that they just aren't "embracing" the taste enough.

Sound pretty silly, doesn't it.  

This goes for everything in life INCLUDING Italy.  In the end, it's not wrong to like or dislike something.  I just so happen to dislike where we are living for the next few years.

Thank YOU

To all my family and friends - just wanted to give a shout out and tell you how much I have appreciated your support and help with being a newlywed, prego, and this PCS to Italy.

Even if we are miles and countries apart, it all means ALOT!

Every little email, FB note, and phone call really brightens my day.

Thank you!

PCS in Italy

Been reading through a bunch of military wife blogs and came across one where the wifey is also currently in Italy...stationed at an Air Force Base, but here just the same. At first, I was getting a little p-o'ed reading her blog. It was "love Italy this...and how cool Italy is that..." This is not what I want to hear! I hate this place and everything related to it. But I kept reading.

I got to one post where the wifey mentioned that it really does take six months being here before you finally get acclimated. There were even posts about how she broke down in tears in the frozen pizza section at the grocery store.

Anyways, for all my dear readers, thank you for putting up with my ho-humming and crabby posts. Give it one more week and we'll hit the three month mark. June will be six months and while I know that seems so very far away (believe me, I feel it), don't give up on me. And if I still don't turn around and adapt to this place come June, at least you'll have the wonderful little bambino to hear about come August/September!