http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/DBTKarin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from DBTKarin en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:43:52 +0000 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:43:52 +0000 Today is Sunday in Milano. The weather finally felt like fall a couple of days ago. The family keeps telling me that October is usually FFFRRREEDDDDDO freddocold but this october has been down right hot at times. the trees have turned their beautiful colors and makes me miss the colors of the Omaha fall. Well i told you all that Halloween had arrived in Italy. well kind of. It has become a rea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-449959.html Yesterday was a resting day. I was just beat. Ive been trying to study as much as possible and also to see the beautiful sights here in Milano. I have seen some amazing things so far and feel so lucky. I go home and Ernesto educates me further on the history. He doenst like using the cool dictionary he bought but Siria and I really use it just about all the time. He mutters something shakes his h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-448877.html Today was my last language lesson and as a person might expect I felt like I understood a concept that had been stumping me over and over. Oh well Lydia Leeedeeeeah was a great maestra teacher and I will maybe ask for her again next time I come into Milano. I have made it my job to see the things in Milano that people talk about. I went to the chiesa church where the original Last Supper http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-448396.html ok well im here in an internet kind of center instead of the mc donalds or at the school. the school teachers are having a meeting today so there will be no class. ok just like the US. the woman who runs it is a living doll. definitely italian but argentinian born. her name still escapes me. she gave me a caffe today just because i guess. what a sweetie. her inglese is pretty darn good. she help http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-447465.html Today is rainy in Milano. Kind of humid even though my aunt holds herself and says ....freddddo.ccllld It's not really. I think some of it is that it isn't usual weather for here in the autumn. They don't use air conditioning. they like it warm. They acclimate to the warm seasons more than I think the average American does. I guess it would be better for the bank account if we weren't addicted http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-446904.html In the last couple of days I can feel the Italian language sounding less foreign to my ears. I can listen to the new with Ernesto and kind of follow the gist of what is being said. yesterday was a day that will probably be material to tease me with for a long time. i had lost track of the days. Almost the whole day yesterday I thought it was Sunday. I got up to go to Mass Messe and saw there wer http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-446623.html ok what a couple of days. wish i could say its been all great but its not. my uncle and aunt have been dealing with their health checkups and lti learned that they both have struggled with cancer and still worry about relapses....wow. they are not treating me like a tourist which of course is a good thing when its good but lti want to see the tourist things too. the leonardo da vinci last s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-445739.html Today is Wednesday in milano. I got up at my normal time and was out the door on time to get to my class with a few minutes to get settled and wake up my brain. In order to get to my school I walk about 15 minutes maybe a little more depending how fast or slow i go. i get to the metro stop and take the underground train that is very similar to the train we took in paris with our daughter. it was v http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-445251.html ok well this is continuing to surprise me that Northern Italy doesn't have internet and WIFI everywhere. I tried to get online yesterday at McDonalds and couldn't. Man that place was jumping with the giovani young people of Milano. Wow. My cuginos cousins were explaining to me that the young here are interested in most things American. Hmmmm ok I guess that makes sense. We as Americans a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-444623.html i arrived in milano friday and the process of getting to my uncles home was a crazy one. i have enjoyed the kindness of many people and my uncle and aunt are wonderful to me. the time has been a steady stream of family conversations that i understand and then am totally lost. my italian is hardly growing at all and i hope it will improve soon. i am writing this on an italian keyboad that every ti http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-444095.html First entrythis is just to get the blog set up. This weekend is packing getting my gifts for the family purchased and whatever else occurs to me http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-441600.html Hey all finding a computer to use has been a challenge. I thought internet cafes would be on many blocks if not towns for sure but unfortunately not. So here I am. back in Paris. Italy was the biggest surprise in that I not only got my document that I was wanting but met and was entertained by several relatives. It was a moment I hadn't really allowed myself to think was possible. I had many of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Centre/blog-347245.html i have to hurry because lti am borrowing the computer in the hotel in italy. so much to tell you all about the connection with family. overwhelming and wonderful ltim very tired and so contento italian for happy. the weather has been off and on sunney and rainy. sorry about my spelling the keyboard is italian and all different from ours. left paris on a late train wow the train trip was so in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-345231.html This has been the coolest thing. Our flight was ok long but not awful. Some of the flight attendants were French and some were American some of the passengers were seated in a French section and some were in an English speaking section. We discovered that our seats were not together so my husband asked a young man if he'd trade with me and he did cheerfully. That was our first interaction with a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-342623.html Well said my see ya laters and returned messages checked on the details of everyone's accounts tried to change my phone message and was too rushed to focus to left a note to ask Peggy to do it for me. So if you leave a message for me don't be thinkin' havin a sarah palin moment you've got the wrong number Well like I say in class the best skill of all in my opinion in Wise Mind because http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Centre/blog-341437.html Ooookay one more week to go and we'll be on our way. Skills at this time are Onething in the Moment and Focus on what works. At this time it means to get clear about what I am taking and make it as streamlined as possible. No overpacking. Did that when we went to Ireland several years ago. What a mistake but of course since I'd never traveled in the British Isles before or anywhere that far o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Upper-Normandie/Rouen/blog-339147.html