"I'm good- I'm making friends and learning Italian which is what we all came for. I had a great day. Our landlady and landlord had us over for the Italian equivalent of sunday dinner. We gave my landlady a cookbook last week from the region she grew up in (we accidentally bought two of them- they are a cool promotion of national pride through cooking that the newspaper is putting out- one a week on a different region of Italy for 3 months) and she picked a bunch of recipes she remembered from her childhood. The best thing was that she invited me over to help cook. We made a bunch of stuff together and the kids were watching so she put them to work, too- speaking only Italian to them, mind you. And they did it! Maddy read an entire recipe out loud in Italian and then baked a cake, and Gus followed her instructions and made some fancy little rolls filled with green olives and anchovies that he was very proud of."
Maddy and Gus start school tomorrow!
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