A Visit with Tiziana

Italy Journal

Oct. 22, 2012

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Visit with Tiziana

It’s always so nice to get an invitation to visit in the home of a new friend. I was so pleased to receive an invitation from Tiziana, a German teacher who teaches in the same middle school as Rossella. I met her on a walk with Rossella and her group of women that walk every Wednesday, and she wanted to speak English with me as much as I wanted to speak Italian with her, so that’s what we did. I spoke Italian, and she spoke English. It worked really well.

She picked me up at the hospital, and her house was towards St. Michele, where I walk past the honey farm sometimes. It was a beautiful home, and I found in the back yard a large grassy area…and a chicken coop! The mansion behind them had at least 4 acres of grass with cows and a donkey on it. Anyway, after a lovely cup of decaf coffee, we went to the backyard and fetched the 4 fresh eggs that the chickens ungraciously gave up to her. We had to block their path to get to the eggs without a fight from the hens. Tiziana gave me two of those fresh eggs to take home, and later I enjoyed them very much.

I met her 17-year-old beautiful daughter and her husband, and I hope we can all get together soon to get to know each other better.

Thanks again for a lovely visit, Tiziana.

Colleen

PS I threw in the picture of my lovely flowers from my lovely husband and the first pictures of Monviso with snow on the top. Winter is coming!