After a day in Venezia and a day in Ferrara, I must admit that our Italian language skills are improving a bit! This language education via immersion is paying off. For starters, people used to ask us if we had a lighter and we would try our best to answer in Italian, probably saying something like “yes, I will shave your goat.” But now, we are even better and can respond with “yes, I will light your goat on fire.”
Seriously, though, I conversed entirely in Italian with one of the tourist board people (she did not speak 700 words a minute like most of the locals) and I walked out with a map and a lot of information, so I’m guessing I asked for the right things. (And no goats were harmed in the process.)
Venezia and Ferrara were both wonderful, and Aaron and I are trying to figure out what to do for our last night here in Bologna. Tomorrow afternoon we head off to Milano to wrap up our trip, so this will probably be the last post from abroad. The whole experience is passing by all too quickly!