The airport….where all proverbial and literal journeys commence…
so everything I typed about the language in my last was wrong…I think the smallness of my dictionary caused them to put words together that aren’t quite exactly the same thing…I guess Italian is not as sexist as I first thought…I’m not editing it of course because I like to read my first impressions of a topic later….
They aren’t the alps either…it’s the apuane alps…which is a separate chain completely…and the Med is more like a kilometer (1000m – for the yanks) away from the office at least.
the whole last entry was a waste 😉
The annual company party was last night. Hung out with the two polish guys. They were quite funny and friendly..At one point one of them re-enacted a whole monty python sketch by himself (complete with old lady british accent). simply magical…they were cool….
There was a pool and it was quite funny to see the italians frolic like a bunch of little kids in it…
Only italians could turn a 4 letter word into a 5 syllable word….
CH-EEE-AAAAAHHH-OOOOWWWW-eh (ciao)…this might be even more amazing than the german MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaannnnn as described by matt.
today went to the town of Lucca…It was a medeival town with a complete wall around it. the wall is still intact and the town is absolutely beautiful. I only had a couple hours there, but it is on my to do list for when I go back…
I had lunch at the first place I saw inside Lucca. It so happened that it was an ‘American Restaurant and Wine Bar’…Whilst waiting for food I looked around and figured that all you need to call yourself an ‘American Restaurant’ are some Beatles posters (WTF!!!!), Muhammad Ali Posters, and Marilyn Monroe Posters. There were many more Beatles posters than anything else.
My english is continually getting worse…I actually used the word ‘quitted’ in an email last week…I didn’t even notice until I finished the sentence then had to reread it cuz I knew something was wrong…
Now the fact that I thought ‘quitted’ and then went ahead and typed it is a bad sign…I suspect if I spend more time in Italy this trend will continue. 🙂
Will put the pics on the Italy page…
