The 23rd
For those of you who know Yoav and I well, you know we go out to dinner every 23rd of the month, coinciding with our first date, which was March 23, 2001. Never mind we didn't actually start dating officially until almost a month later, we still celebrate the 23rd of every month, except for April when we celebrate the 17th (our wedding anniversary) and March, when we celebrate the 26th (because that's when Yoav proposed). It's complicated but fun and we love it that way.
So tonight we went to Firenze, a trattoria in Brookline (I know, it sounds weird to say 'trattoria" and "Brookline" in the same phrase, ma che si puo' fa - e' proprio cosi). Our waitress was the daughter of the owner, who is Fiorentino (quel sorprese...) and we talked to her a little about Italy. Then we saw four women come in speaking Italian, which made the experience all the more exciting. I kind of wanted to go up and speak to them, but when you're already in 4 speaking a language, finding someone else who speaks it isn't too special and in past situations I've always felt a little uncomfortable.
Ma comunque
What was FANTASTIC was that Yoav and I had several full-length conversation in Italian. He is improving exponentially and really proving he has a gift for learning languages. As opposed to me, who loves languages and studies very hard to learn them, he likes them and only has to mildly concentrate to pick them up. Interesting...I guess that means there's a good chance our kids will pick up languages well, grazie a Dio.
Buona notte a tutti.
So tonight we went to Firenze, a trattoria in Brookline (I know, it sounds weird to say 'trattoria" and "Brookline" in the same phrase, ma che si puo' fa - e' proprio cosi). Our waitress was the daughter of the owner, who is Fiorentino (quel sorprese...) and we talked to her a little about Italy. Then we saw four women come in speaking Italian, which made the experience all the more exciting. I kind of wanted to go up and speak to them, but when you're already in 4 speaking a language, finding someone else who speaks it isn't too special and in past situations I've always felt a little uncomfortable.
Ma comunque
What was FANTASTIC was that Yoav and I had several full-length conversation in Italian. He is improving exponentially and really proving he has a gift for learning languages. As opposed to me, who loves languages and studies very hard to learn them, he likes them and only has to mildly concentrate to pick them up. Interesting...I guess that means there's a good chance our kids will pick up languages well, grazie a Dio.
Buona notte a tutti.
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