Buona pasqua tutti! Easter doesn't mean anything special to me, but it's an important occasion for L and his catholic famiglia. They'd be stuffing their faces on all kinds of traditional dishes including goat, Easter cakes and sweets. Sfortunatamente L had to work throughout the long weekend, although we are also thankful for the work. The contract has not been discussed but we'll see what's been offered. I told him if the terms are not favourable, just screw it and wait for something better to come along. Another amico met someone from the IR and asked for his CV to be sent. At this rate, his resume is well circulated there! Bene, bene.
Last week's headlines that caught our attention was of couse the terremoto (earthquake) in L'Aquila area. Unknown to many, Italy is an earthquake prone country. In history books, there had been many well documented earthquake incidents, specialmente the big one that shook Umbria decades ago that destroyed many great monuments. Gang wrote to say he felt the tremours twice at Perugia and ran out terrified. I could imagine his fear. In Italy, most of the old towns' palazzi are ancient and might not hold up.
Amid the earthquake concerns, L's mamma, papa and zia called on numerous occasions to chat with him. It has been almost 3 months since he left home and they must miss him a lot. Perhaps we will have some italian visitors this summer lol. I don't think we'd be going back to Italia this year, as much as we'd love to be at Nonna's gran 80th birthday festa in July. For now, we are looking forward to the upcoming vacanza at Hainan in China - la nostra prima volta li! We're already curious about my ancestral village and forsee a group of bemused relatives who'd be surprised to see a chao angmoh eating with chopsticks in their ulu kampong.
Buona pasqua tutti! Easter doesn't mean anything special to me, but it's an important occasion for L and his catholic famiglia. They'd be stuffing their faces on all kinds of traditional dishes including goat, Easter cakes and sweets. Sfortunatamente L had to work throughout the long weekend, although we are also thankful for the work. The contract has not been discussed but we'll see what's been offered. I told him if the terms are not favourable, just screw it and wait for something better to come along. Another amico met someone from the IR and asked for his CV to be sent. At this rate, his resume is well circulated there! Bene, bene. 
Last week's headlines that caught our attention was of couse the terremoto (earthquake) in L'Aquila area. Unknown to many, Italy is an earthquake prone country. In history books, there had been many well documented earthquake incidents, specialmente the big one that shook Umbria decades ago that destroyed many great monuments. Gang wrote to say he felt the tremours twice at Perugia and ran out terrified. I could imagine his fear. In Italy, most of the old towns' palazzi are ancient and might not hold up. 
Amid the earthquake concerns, L's mamma, papa and zia called on numerous occasions to chat with him. It has been almost 3 months since he left home and they must miss him a lot. Perhaps we will have some italian visitors this summer lol. I don't think we'd be going back to Italia this year, as much as we'd love to be at Nonna's gran 80th birthday festa in July. For now, we are looking forward to the upcoming vacanza at Hainan in China - la nostra prima volta li! We're already curious about my ancestral village and forsee a group of bemused relatives who'd be surprised to see a chao angmoh eating with chopsticks in their ulu kampong.
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