Sunday’s highlight was meeting Stella’s brother Antonello and his wife Agnese. They came over at 2pm for lunch with us – a huge, long Italian-style lunch I might add, which was a lot of fun. They are both very sweet and fun to talk to. Aneze is quite a bit younger than Antonello because they met when she was a student studying abroad in Italy. She is from France and did a home-stay in Antonello’s house when she was studying in Italy. It was a complicated love story but now they are happily married with a nine year old son. Antonello is an accomplished pianist, so he gave us a taste of some of the songs he will be performing at a concert on Tuesday. He played for us on Stella’s pianoforte after lunch. For lunch, we had a mix of foods, including a vegetable salad, hard-boiled eggs, sausage, cheese with jam, bread, and sardines. Then for dessert, Antonello brought us a big container of five different kinds of gelato which we put Stella’s limoncello fruit salad over – va bene! Lunch lasted about two hours and was a very nice study break! Late that afternoon it finally rained briefly – ushering a bit of cooler weather! So my run around the Fortezza was lovely and the coolness lasted into Monday as well.
Monday’s Italian class was quite entertaining because we learned a popular Italian song from the 60s and 70s called “Io Ho In Mente Te,” by Equipe 84. Here’s a link to listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xmzve_KhA. We had to fill in blanks left in the lyrics, then of course Marco had us sing it together! Afterwards, I had lunch with Ana Rose – our last lunch together at Café Alfieri, our favorite lunch spot! We sat outside in their garden, enjoying the afternoon before heading back to study for exams and start packing.
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