I am starting to realize that I lucked out with my housing situation. Margherita is such a blast to be with and I'm really starting to learn a lot about her. Today she took me to the beach, Forte di Marmi. It was about an hour drive from Florence. Not very far at all! Today was such a beautiful day, we had to take advantage of it. Plus, she loves to sun tan. Yesterday I came back from a friend's apartment and found her on the terrace ironing in a swimsuit and curlers. While talking on the phone. She's hilarious.
So anyways, we had a very interesting conversation on the way there. Her passion is to travel. I don't think I could remember all of the places she has been. But name a big city and I guarantee shes been there. Margherita started to tell me about her experience in Africa and how it was such a defining moment in her life because of the poverty there. Children there are happy when they only have one pair of shoes and live with barely anything. Think about the culture we live in, where children are constantly buying, buying buying. Consuming = happiness. She said she started to realize that there is so much we can cut back on, such as conserving water, not buying as much, or turning off lights when you're not in the room. I can tell that she makes a conscious effort at helping the planet in her own way. She has four separate garbage bins for plastic, food, cardboard, and other trash. She rarely turns all of the lights on in her apartment. Just very interesting and eye opening, she has a good heart. (Actually as I'm typing this, she came into my room and turned off the lights).
Other things I have learned about her.... hm. She loves the color violet. Also, she is obsessed with dishwashing gloves. Apparently they aren't sold in Italy. She traveled to New York to visit some past students and bought a pair there. Unfortunately, those ripped and she needed to buy another pair but couldn't find purple ones and had to settle for blue. She couldn't stop talking about them. Note to self, if possible, find purple dishwashing gloves for Margherita.
Forte di Marmi was a great chance to get away and RELAX before classes start tomorrow. Even though we only go to school four days a week, the classes are long and pretty intense. I have a feeling it'll get quite busy these next few months. But today, Margherita and I laid out in the sun (I napped, still working on kicking this jetlag), ate panini, walked around town to find the most expensive pieces of clothing, ate gelato (of course), and came home. Perfect day.
Time to mentally prepare for classes. Its easy to get caught up in this beauty and forget that I'm here for a reason... study study study!!
Arrivederci!
So anyways, we had a very interesting conversation on the way there. Her passion is to travel. I don't think I could remember all of the places she has been. But name a big city and I guarantee shes been there. Margherita started to tell me about her experience in Africa and how it was such a defining moment in her life because of the poverty there. Children there are happy when they only have one pair of shoes and live with barely anything. Think about the culture we live in, where children are constantly buying, buying buying. Consuming = happiness. She said she started to realize that there is so much we can cut back on, such as conserving water, not buying as much, or turning off lights when you're not in the room. I can tell that she makes a conscious effort at helping the planet in her own way. She has four separate garbage bins for plastic, food, cardboard, and other trash. She rarely turns all of the lights on in her apartment. Just very interesting and eye opening, she has a good heart. (Actually as I'm typing this, she came into my room and turned off the lights).
Other things I have learned about her.... hm. She loves the color violet. Also, she is obsessed with dishwashing gloves. Apparently they aren't sold in Italy. She traveled to New York to visit some past students and bought a pair there. Unfortunately, those ripped and she needed to buy another pair but couldn't find purple ones and had to settle for blue. She couldn't stop talking about them. Note to self, if possible, find purple dishwashing gloves for Margherita.
Forte di Marmi was a great chance to get away and RELAX before classes start tomorrow. Even though we only go to school four days a week, the classes are long and pretty intense. I have a feeling it'll get quite busy these next few months. But today, Margherita and I laid out in the sun (I napped, still working on kicking this jetlag), ate panini, walked around town to find the most expensive pieces of clothing, ate gelato (of course), and came home. Perfect day.
Time to mentally prepare for classes. Its easy to get caught up in this beauty and forget that I'm here for a reason... study study study!!
Arrivederci!
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