Battle Scars

Today was a beautiful summer day. It was breezy in the morning but heated up in the afternoon. I decided to skip the gym since the new medicine I’m taking is making it hard to breath through my nose, plus I didn’t want to push it. So instead I went for a walk in the park and did some sketching. I took Filippo over to his grandmother’s (nonna) apartment for lunch. Luckily she lives close so we walked. She prepared a wonderful meal of gnocchi pomodoro (tomatoes) and some meat stuffed with spinach. For desert we had fresh fruit and fragola torta (strawberry tart or cake). After lunch I came back home and took a nap before picking Ruggie up from school. We all went to the garden after school and stayed two hours!! When we got back the parents were home and fixing dinner. We ate outside on the patio and had a light meal. Today was uneventful except for the fact that I have added to my battle wounds (those being the ones inflicted by the boys, a bite mark and scab where Ruggie hit me with a stick). I hit my ankle with a door and the big one, I was trying to open my medicine in the glass jar when it slipped and I cut my finger. Tomorrow’s resolution it to stop all bloodshed!!

Here are some more things to add to my list of things I love about Italy

The way my clean clothes smell (really they have never smelt so good)
Fresh green olives (I didn’t even like green olive until now)
Doors (buildings have the coolest doors I have ever seen)
Smart Cars (I would never own one because they are too small but they are cute and piccolo-small)