First Time to L.A.!

..The second city I Saw in the U.S. was Los Angeles, in fact after New York I went to L.A.!... But the trouble was the second flight for Santa Maria airport (my final destination) was at 6:30pm and I arrived to L.A. at 11:30 XD !

Hollywood!

But I was so lucky, cuz on the flight Newark - L.A. there was Marie Magdelyns too! She's from belgium and her host mom (Shauna Barnhardt) wait for her to the airport...
So Shauna showed me L.A. and Beverly hills during a short touristic tour around the city.

Rolls Royce

Stars!

Me&Marine

Finally we took some pictures alltogether and Shauna showed me her pretty daughter (Destany) with some pics on the phone!

..So with the promise to meet them again I left to catch my final destination (Arguello 1124 CT, Lompoc CA)!!

family's very important component!

Portos "The doggy"

The Beginning..

!Larry RookBowl Taber!

Rookie Bowl 2008
Sharks PA - Elephants CT

Larry and Taber LeMarr

Christian DiMauro#21 Lawrence Atkinson#1 Riccardo Conticello#12

Everything is started when my Coach George Contreras asked me if I like play football in his american school where he's coaching junior varsity team, The Spartans (Rio Mesa HS). So me&my parents started to settle all paperworks needing to do one year in the U.S.
During this complicated work (cuz generally guys that want do one year abroad they have many months to get ready... I had just one month!), Vanna Laura Costantino and Sebastiano Taccetta had been of fundamental importance!!... My uncle Sebastiano was the last person i saw before i left from Milan on August 21, 2009! and I have to say "THANK YOU" also to Lawrence Atkinson (an American player), cuz he really helped me during practices. I started to play american football (just agility without pads) on October 11 and I played my really first game just on December 11, 2008. Rookie Bowl 2008!

Families

Families :)

!My Italian Family!
AnnaMaria Andrea Me Antonio

..and American Family!
Sydnee Scott Shari Jenna Me

1. L'idea di scrivere questo Blog e' nata leggendo il Blog "Coaching for pizza" di George Contreras, mio Head Coach per gli Elephants Catania nel 2009; e seguendo il consiglio dei miei genitori di tenere un "diario di bordo" inerente questo mio Exchange Stundent qui negli U.S.!!

Links:

http://coachingforpizza.blogspot.com/

http://www.elephantscatania.it/home.html