Surprisingly for, the most exciting thing about being in Italy has been learning Italian. The sister's husband, Benezio, does not speak English even a little bit, so that has been a great impetus to learn the language quicker. We can carry on pretty simple conversations. I know the words to tons of food, interrogative words, how to conjugate the verbs "to be" and "to have" and various other words and sentences I learned under fire.
Before coming, I had very little desire to learn Italian, because once you know one romance language you kind of know them all. But, Italian is a very nice language and, as always, the most exciting part is being able to communicate with people that you otherwise wouldn't be able to. so for me, it has jumped from being an academic exercise to a living language. Fun!
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Oops... for some reason this shows up as a blog I follow, but won't show up in my feed or whatever, so I haven't seen posts... (two months late). Anyhow, yes. I'm excited (but nervous) to see how (futile) my Italian studies will (or won't) pay off. Two weeks from now I'll be leaving for the airport, brother in tow!
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