May 2008 Archives
Friday night I wound up staying late at the San Gallo campus waiting for my video to finish compressing and then (fail) to upload so I stopped at the first cafe that I could find that was still open to get a bite to eat. The place was surprisingly packed and I wound up sharing a table with an elderly Italian woman who offered me a seat. Her English seemed remarkably good and she started talking to me. Eventually though, I started speaking too quickly (as I naturally do) and too much in English and she scolded me; something along the lines of "I'm speaking English to you as a courtesy, you're in my country you should speak Italian." However, when I tried to use my bastardized span-englo-talian, she got even more annoyed and told me to just tell her in English. At that point though, the barman came to my rescue and told the woman, I gather, "while he's talking to you he can't eat, shut up old lady!" I'm almost certainly going back to that cafe again, although this time maybe I'll sit by myself.
Episode 1.mp4
I'm finally here! You have no idea how much trouble I went through to get this stupid thing to work, but it's here!
