I cannot believe that the first week of school is over and the semester is one-fourth of the way through. But it feels distinctly different from “time flying” back home. There, it makes sense that time would fly: Jam-packed schedules, strict adherence to clocks, multitasking, electronic planners and phones, the dinging chimes of new email… But here, life is so much more serene. Yes, there are things to do and regular times when they are to be accomplished. But all the moments in between are taken up with a certain amount of leisure—or at least with a leisurely approach to accomplishing the tasks at hand. Take gelato, for example. In many ways it is just plain old ice cream. But its consumption is so much different that it turns it into an experience. Back home, ice
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