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| Eric, Ryan, Allen, me, Emily, Laura, Jessica, Angela, Debbie and David at the Grape Harvest |
These are the people I go to school with everyday. We all also teach English classes and do many other things together.
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| Me, Jessica, Eric, Angela, Peter and Laura at the church lunch in Prato |
Angela Withrow - Angela graduated from Harding in December and is originally from Garland, TX. She got here just a couple of days before me and she is my roommate :) It's a good think I like her as much as I do because we are together all of the time.
Eric and Jessica Smith - Eric and Jessica are one of the married couples. Eric graduated from Ohio State and Jessica graduated from Harding. They have been living in Cabot, Arkansas for the past few years. Eric was working as a surveyor and Jessica as an artist (a very, very good artist).
Ryan and Laura Stephens - Ryan and Laura are the other married couple. They both graduated from Harding a couple of years ago and had been working as nurses in Memphis, TN before they came here. Laura really enjoys cooking and I really enjoy eating the food she cooks.
Peter McGraw - Peter also graduated from Harding within the past couple of years. He was working in Memphis before coming here as well. Peter was not able to be here until the beginning of October, which was difficult since we had been here for a month (and a lot happens in a month). But he's been working really hard to catch up with Italian and I think he's started feeling less overwhelmed.
Other Avanti Italia Workers:
David and Debbie Woodroof - David and Debbie are the directors of Avanti Italia. They do a really amazing job of managing our time and using our resources to help whoever we can. They are also like backup parents and do a great job of making everyone feel at home here.
Emily Woodroof - Emily is David a Debbie's daughter. She graduated from Harding a couple of years ago and has been an Avanti Italia worker here in Florence for a year already. She has one year left and then she will be finished with Avanti :( I will be sad when she leaves. She has done a GREAT job of helping us all get accustomed to the way things work here and helping us with our Italian. Before I got here people warned me that I would love Emily and her parents and those people were correct.
Ermenita Zyka - Ermenita is from Albania but has lived in Florence for 6 years. She just finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Florence (we went to her "American style" graduation yesterday). She has been going to the church here in Florence for about 5 years (I think) and recently started working as an Avanti Italia worker. She doesn't teach English classes, but she does many other things for the Bible School and for the church. She speaks both English and Italian fluently so she is also going to star helping us with our Italian. She is wonderful.
Other people who live here:
Allen Cochran - Allen is a student at Harding but is taking the semester off to study Italian here in Florence. His parents are the guest professors at HUF this semester and his younger sister is here with them also. The Cochrans are great and it's been fun having Allen here (I like to give him a hard time about his crazy hair). He's been here the whole time that I have so it will be strange when he's gone next semester.
Kyle Thompson - Kyle is the assistant to the director of HUF. He has his own apartment here at the Bible School. He is usually at the Harding villa or out with the students so we don't really seem him here very often. But, he's a lot of fun also.
Zoey - Zoey is Emily's puppy. She is awesome. She is also going to be the most spoiled dog in the world because she lives in a house where there are always at least 12 people seeking here affection at all times.
Eric and Jessica Smith - Eric and Jessica are one of the married couples. Eric graduated from Ohio State and Jessica graduated from Harding. They have been living in Cabot, Arkansas for the past few years. Eric was working as a surveyor and Jessica as an artist (a very, very good artist).
Ryan and Laura Stephens - Ryan and Laura are the other married couple. They both graduated from Harding a couple of years ago and had been working as nurses in Memphis, TN before they came here. Laura really enjoys cooking and I really enjoy eating the food she cooks.
Peter McGraw - Peter also graduated from Harding within the past couple of years. He was working in Memphis before coming here as well. Peter was not able to be here until the beginning of October, which was difficult since we had been here for a month (and a lot happens in a month). But he's been working really hard to catch up with Italian and I think he's started feeling less overwhelmed.
Other Avanti Italia Workers:
David and Debbie Woodroof - David and Debbie are the directors of Avanti Italia. They do a really amazing job of managing our time and using our resources to help whoever we can. They are also like backup parents and do a great job of making everyone feel at home here.
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| Laura, Jessica, Debbie, me and Angela at the church in Prato |
Emily Woodroof - Emily is David a Debbie's daughter. She graduated from Harding a couple of years ago and has been an Avanti Italia worker here in Florence for a year already. She has one year left and then she will be finished with Avanti :( I will be sad when she leaves. She has done a GREAT job of helping us all get accustomed to the way things work here and helping us with our Italian. Before I got here people warned me that I would love Emily and her parents and those people were correct.
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| Jessica, Angela, Ryan, Ermenita, Eric, me, and Emily at Ermenita's graduation |
Other people who live here:
Allen Cochran - Allen is a student at Harding but is taking the semester off to study Italian here in Florence. His parents are the guest professors at HUF this semester and his younger sister is here with them also. The Cochrans are great and it's been fun having Allen here (I like to give him a hard time about his crazy hair). He's been here the whole time that I have so it will be strange when he's gone next semester.
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| Zoey with Ryan and Allen |
Kyle Thompson - Kyle is the assistant to the director of HUF. He has his own apartment here at the Bible School. He is usually at the Harding villa or out with the students so we don't really seem him here very often. But, he's a lot of fun also.
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| Zoey! |
Zoey - Zoey is Emily's puppy. She is awesome. She is also going to be the most spoiled dog in the world because she lives in a house where there are always at least 12 people seeking here affection at all times.
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