…took
the bus down to the Porta Palazzo Market….gah I love that place…the largest
open air market never gets old….got my shampoo and conditioner, some Tupperware
to bring breakables home in, a couple more gifts for people…a new 10 euro
duffel to bring home as my second carryon to my backpack…and then just as I was
leaving I found a La Stampa to get my Italian comic books.
…we
learned about them in my culture class, Italians really love their comic books,
or I guess they are more like graphic novels….but when we learned about them
someone said “those would be a really cool thing to bring home, like a cool
coffee table book from our travels” and I thought that was brilliant! So that’s
just what I did….i got a copy of Topolino (translates to little mouse) which is
their word for Mickey Mouse, its all the characters on their adventures, but
its set in Italy so some of the cartoons will have the Duomo in Milan in the background
or the Palace in Florence….and then I also got Julia, its one about a Criminology
professor from New Jersey, but the drawings for her are based on Audrey
Hepburn, I love it….
….after
the market I headed down toward Via Garibaldi (the main shopping street that
leads into Piazza Castello) mentally adding up the amount of money I had just
spent and heading towards H&M (try to contain your surprise) when I happened
upon this table of really cool metal rings and a little man behind the table
making them (I totally wish I had a camera for this!!)…they were rings exactly
like the one my mom got me last summer in Piazza Navona in Rome, they were big
enough to be proportional to my finger size and so cool….so I stopped and
looked and started talking to him, and started picking up ones I really liked,
and asked how much they were….of the 4 I loved, 3 were 5 euros each and 1 was 8…so
I told him I wanted them all (and figured I skip H&M today, this was
wwwaaayyy better)…one of them fit right away….then another he was able to just
stretch a bit out for me,…and then I told him rings were hard for me to find
because I have such big fingers…to which he responded oh that’s no problem, I can
make these any size, they are my creations J….the other two rings I
loved he actually took apart for the beads, then cut new wire and remade them
to fit my fingers!! It was so so so cool, I loved him J…..
…as
I was leaving I asked his name, he said “Pino”…I said, like the wine, Pino
Grigio?...he chuckled and said yes but more like Giuseppino, his name is Giuseppe
(Joseph) but he was always called Giuseppino (Little Joseph) because he was the
youngest of his brothers, and it got shortened to Pino….gah!! I loved it!!! Now
I need someone to name their son Giuseppe so I can call them Giuseppino! J
…after
that excitement, I grabbed some focaccia for lunch and took the bus to Eataly
to grab some chocolate to bring home and then it was back to flat…and in
perfect timing, within about 15 minutes of getting home the hugest thunder
clapped (literally I couldn’t figure out what it was because it was gorgeous
outside, and it was so loud and long I thought a building was collapsing or
something!) and then about 10 minutes later it was pouring J…
…im
loving these days of just doing things that I either haven’t done yet, or have
wanted to do again…too bad dead week starts this week, then finals next week
and then its home we go….hard to believe that this adventure is actually coming
to a close, but there is an end to everything….something great is waiting at
home I just know it…but for now, there are only 12 more days to make the last
few memories, remember some from the very beginning and fully take in how much
ive seen, done, experienced, and grown into a new person…
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