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Dear Friends,
10 months, 10 months ad 2 weeks. It's been a crazy year, crazy in the good way.
I had amazing adventures and times that soon will just become memories.
Everything will change, everything will fade away and in some years it might become a shadow in our life.
It's been 10 long motnhs, but it seemed really short!
I would say that all the amazing adventures that we had seems to have happened yeasterday. But because it seems yesterday when I arrived, I would have never imagined to say that they seemed to have happened thi morning.
I would have never imagined to find so many friends that turned my year in the best that I could have asked for.
I would have never thought that I would have discovered that I like to run, that I njoy eating fries with a milkshake, pineapple on pizza or peanut butter on an hamburger (oh wait, that was not the best).
I have to thank especially all the people who le me in the musical.
Just wonderful.
You all made this year a wonderful time that will stay in my heart forever.
Cross Country, A christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast, Impromptu, the dinner outside, the pieshakes, the lunches, playing table games, all the dances, graduation, senior trip etc. etc. etc.
How many experiences.
I will never forget when I got stucked on the velcro during the senior trip; the guy who were destroying the piano playing awful music that we almost hit with the guitar. When we lost against a table game. And when we were performting on the stage, singing and dancing behind the set. And the time someone lifted up a candelabra also if she was not supposed to, or oh no no no, moin croissant or when I heated up my butt on the fake fireplace. And the evening watching Newsies or the rides in Svetlana or in Sebastian with the music of every musical.
I will never forget the paper towel (throws paper towel at Teddie) and all the laughs that we had.
I'll never forget the senior prank or the fire with the homeworks. It has just been a wonderful year.
I could thank everyone of you for something, we had so much fun.

But I want to thanks some of the people in particular:

Sven: for being a wonderful host brother that I enjoyed stayin with and who lived this adventure with me.

Also if not here, Helen, my host mom, for all the help and for being a wonderful person to me.

Rainie: for letting me have a lot of fun at the beginning of the year and at homecoming. You started my year in the best way.

Ariel: for being a wonderful teammate of adventures in this crazy year.

Nathan and all the theatre for welcoming me in this crazy family.

Rianda, Jacob and Avri: for letting me share some of the funniest moments of theatre, saying wrong names or yelling I don't love myself!

Rianda: for casting me in the part and letting me have a wonderful time.

Moira: for supporting and living with me every moment of this crazy adventure, for all the help and determination. We made it! I'm glad you were my walking partner and you were in my same city.

Madi: for having easily shared with me some of the most wodnerful times of the last 10 months. I'm glad we both took the class of guitar and we shared so many moments. I will remember every single day in Svetlana, in class or playing on the snow, table games or D&d. You are one of those people, with all of you, who turned this year in the best. I'm glad to be your friend.

Leslie...
Teddie...
Leslie...
Teddie...
I don't know what to say. You both literally created some of the greatest, happiest, and most amazing memories of this year. I had so much fun with you two. I shared so much time with you both that I literally wouldn't know where to start.
Well...
To you both: thank you for letting me in in your groups of friends, for letting me share with you every moment. Thank you for inviting me to Winter Formal, one of those days of rehersal, when, I should say, I really started to hang out with you. Thank you for all the nights, dinners, performances and to have made every single moment, a moment of joy (even botteling wine or watching crazy tv shows of which you know the name).
Thank you for Prom, for the senior trip, for the Bio trip and for all the fun that we had.

To Leslie: Thank you for running with me, for supporting and for stopping me when I was eating too much (and thank you Teddie for letting me eat too much). Thank you for the fun memories at the Riv, listening to or playing music and for the wonderful moments at the Latin Dance. You are a wonderful person and I'm so happy that I met you and that I had the chance to spend time with you.

To Teddie: there's so much more to say than thank you for being one of the most wonderful person I know and for making this year a great year.
You always added joy and fun and you always planned most of all the amazing stuff I did this year. Thank you for chosing for me, for opening me the doors to country music and Broadway musicals.
You are part of the most wonderful moments of this year, from party-hopping to making caramell. From botteling wine to perform in theatre. When you added voices to the wrestlers, when we were going with the car with the music. I jsut knod't know where to start and where to stop.
I can just say that I had some (and probably most) of the funniest and craziest laughs of this year and that each single moment eith you was a fun and special moment.
I'm sorry I destroyed a year of your life... but I'm not sorry for the laughs after it. (There is one more thing but it will be in your letter).

So well people, but expecially the ones that I have met from the second term. The only thing that I regret was to not meet you or started to hang out with you until January.

So this year is coming to an end. And we would probably all start forgetting what happened. But we won't (or at least, I won't) forget the emotions that we lived and the people that we met.
I'm glad I came to The Dalles because I had the chance to meetall of you; and I found the most wonderful friends I could have met.

Tomorrow is going to be fast, and Monday even faster. I hope I will stay in contact with you all and, if you don't hear from me for a while, just send me a message! It might just be because I don't open snapchat because we don't use it in Italy!

I can just say thank to you all and, also if my house is small, you are welcome to stay in the hotel right next to me and come to visit me!
I wish you all the best and I hope I'll see you all soon.

Italy will always welcome you and I'll offer you a pizza and a lasagna.

Bye...

Leonardo Saveri,
or should I say,
Leonard Slaveri