I'm headed to Ischia and Capri this weekend. I'll spend the first day at Pompeii and Ischia, the next day in Capri, and the last day in Naples. We're being taken there on a bus, and it leaves tomorrow morning at 5:45. I think it will be really fun, and the weather is supposed to be fantastic. Today wasn't terribly exciting. I'm getting a cold, just like everyone else. We had a quiz in my Italian class, and my prior knowledge of Italian helped a lot, and my prior knowledge of Spanish screwed me up a lot. "Carrot" in Italian is "carota" but in Spanish it's "zanahoria." I couldn't remember which language was which, but "zanahoria" is definitely way more Spanish, so I guessed right. That happened with a couple of words, but I think that
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