Just last week I was whining to Elena about being bored to tears and she made me look up, cock my head and think for a moment. She quipped with hands clasped in a prayer pose as I'd picture her: "No, non devi essere triste e frustrata perche la tua vita è bellissima. Ho tante possibilità e vedrai che quando troverai il tuo grande amore, la tua vita sembrerà bellissima! Noi donne siamo così. Non siamo mai contente di quello che abbiamo... when we are young, we would become women very soon, when we are women we want to find a man very soon, when we have a man we want to have a baby very soon, when we have a baby we want him to grow up very soon so to be free...and so on. You know never happy! And this is the LIFE!" Si Elena, d'accordo, grazie! Ti ho promesso che saro' paziente e aspettero' per il mio grande amore :) Fino a quel momento, credo che la vita e' piena di tante possibilità. To quote italian singer Laura Pausini's song "Per Vivere", 'dentro me cerchero' quella fede che non ho dall' amore anch'io cosi rinascero'. I just bought her CD "Tra te e il Mare" (Between you and the sea) and it turned out to be a very pleasing listen. Adesso stiamo imparando i progetti futuri e sarà la nostra classe ultima il sabato prossimo per questo livello di Intermedio uno.
Ooh I couldn't wait to return to Italia and put my new lingua to the real test! I'm already plotting my month-long viaggio next year to Sardegna, Umbria and Sicilia. There's something ummistakebly mystical about Sicilia; I felt like I was in Mother Earth's warm cradle and nothing could rob me of her fuzzy embrace. While tracking down the perfect Sicilian recipe for spaghetti con sarde, I came across the most splendid site www.lacucinaeoliana.com - it has the prettiest pictures, moving photos and eloquent info on the history, food and cinema of the Aeolian islands which I hold dearly to my heart. in particular, check out the gorgeous run-down of the cinematic history in Sicilia and old pictures of the writer's family.
