Sorry it’s taken me forever to post! I've been searching for convenient internet and finally I found something! There’s this cafe near the beach called La Lanterna Rossa (The Red Lantern) that has free wifi (and delicious ice cream!).
Anyway so Bianca is back in Pisa for this week (we are in Sardinia) and I'm with Anna and her Nonna (grandma). So basically all my time is devoted to taking care of her. Which includes: making sure she doesn't accidentally consume gluten (she's celiac), playing with her at the beach (making sure she doesn't drown) and molding her into a well-behaved, English-speaking child despite the effects Only Child Syndrome (OCS). Oh and meanwhile I'm trying to maintain my patience and not die.
Oh AND! Nonna does not speak one word of English. Last summer Anna taught her "yes" but now she doesn't remember even that. So basically Anna translates for us if and when she feels like it. So my Italian is forcibly getting better but sometimes it's very very difficult because Nonna is basically inflexible--not on purpose though--when it comes to speaking. Oh well. Fortunately at the end of this summer I’ll be able to make some killer pasta and salads when I get home. Even if I forget all of my italian, at least I'll be able to cook!
So I met the missionaries here on Sunday and they are awesome! I took the bus with the Elders (completely by accident) so I walked with them to the church from the bus stop and the Sisters are really cool too. I wasn't expecting sister missionaries because there aren't any in Pisa so I was excited to meet them! They're way nice and I'm excited to hear all their advice about serving as a sister missionary. All in all, church was really good and I think I'm going to hang out with some of the youth once Bianca is back here.
Anywho. So basically I'll be here in Sardinia for the next 5 1/2 weeks, then I go back to Pisa with Bianca for a few days and then I come home! I really like Sardinia. We go to the beach almost every day which is awesome and in the mornings Bianca and I go for walks and get the BEST pastries you can imagine.
Welp, that's all that is new with me. I'm learning how to get around on the buses and talk with bus drivers in Italian so that's cool. I can order food now (exciting!) and say simple, very simple sentences.
Ciao, con amor,
Sara
p.s. A thought:
Although the following words have very different definitions, their actions overlap so frequently it is possible to call any action an act of bravery as well as an act of stupidity and vice versa.
bravery: courageous behavior or character.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense [bravado]): from the French braverie or Italian braveria, based on the Latin barbaras.
stupidity: lacking intelligence or common sense: dazed and unable to think clearly.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. from the French stupide or Latin stupidus, from stupere ‘be amazed or stunned.’
I, myself am guilty of such an action. What at first seemed 80% bravery and 20% stupidity is now feeling like 80% stupidity and 20% bravery. Only time will reveal the true nature of this.
Oh well! C’est la vie! Sometimes you just have to grab life by the horns right? (yes, I'm a terrible English major and I took that from the Dodge commercials because I couldn't come up with anything better.) So no use fretting about it: but I’ll let you, my faithful readers, know what happens!