Giorno dopo giorno, ora dopo ora

I'm back in America and it takes all that is in within me to keep from exploding. I'm so frustrated since coming back because I feel like my days are going to waste. In America, feel like it's wrong to not be busy/working.

I've been home for not even a month and I just started work yesterday. I've got absolutely nothing else to fill my days with. I feel so purpose-less. No specific person. No specific organization. Nothing.

What am I doing here?

It's frustrating sometimes. In Europe life is much, much different. I had no job there, not a place to be and yet, I kept so busy and entertained, never felt like I was wasting time. (As I do here.)

But now, as I sit at the desk of my country home in Fresno, I feel like I'm just biding my time until the pages of my life start turning again.

WHY?

Perhaps it's my own issue.

or

Maybe I've already said it, but Europeans live quite differently. They enjoy life. I don't know everything about it, but their evenings are spent with the people they love. Their minds are not always concerned about work/busyness.

But now I'm here and what do I do? There is no plaza for me to go to. No bars (cafes). No trains to take to the next city or two. No roof tops to hang out on. No local night life that you can walk to and socialize all night.

It's this feeling that might be common in America (I'm not really sure) where sometimes people just want to stay home. They'd rather be un-social and stay in the home. Time isn't spent with people, but rather in front of the screens for movies/TV/internet etc. Maybe it's because they want down time from being so busy. Going from thing to thing.

Maybe I'm totally off. Maybe I'm not.

Perhaps it's my own fault. It's not like I don't know people in Fresno. I do and I could always use my imagination to get things together as we have in the past. But another addition to this "culture shock" element is that I feel slightly disconnected from everyone that I do know in Fresno. I've missed out during the past 5 months and I don't know what to do about that feeling.

I'm sorry that I keep comparing the US to Italy but it's what is on my mind. I figure that if you are on this site, you came in order to read about Italy anyways. So...

As for a switch of subject, I'd like to share with ya'll a cute video. The more I listen to the words, the more I realize how absolutely adorable the lyrics are. I wish I could translate it, but I don't know all the words and that might be quite boring anyways.

So anyways, if you look closely at the background of this video, you will see much of what I saw every day in Perugia. I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but it looks like they shot this video in my old town. In reading the notes on the site, it was filmed in the same region of my town: Umbra, but I'm not sure if it was Perugia. Anyways, enjoy!