Pieve di Cerreto

One good way to pick up a language when you’re in that country is to listen to the popular music. That method worked really well for me in Berlin and Moscow, and even in Wales, although there wasn’t quite enough environmental conversation around me to reinforce it there. In Italy we’ve been listening to Radio Italia (solo musica italiana) and can now recognize the top summer hits. But, we could never catch the titles or artists!

Thanks to Ms. Adventures in Italy we now know the titles and singers. So, our field trip today was a trip to Marlia. On the way we were subjected to a massive thunder and lightning rainstorm, but when we arrived, it was all sunshine once again. We checked out the rug store (found an Italian modern design I might splurge for…) and the computer store (got a new mouse and asked about monitors… they’ll have some in at the end of the month). I was so pleased that I was able to converse with both salesmen entirely in Italian and understood everything they said. The boy at the computer store was especially impressed that I seemed to know what I was talking about with respect to resolution (thank you, David).

Then we went to Esselunga and picked up the CDs we’ve been hearing so much of: Tiziano Ferro, Negramaro, Nek and Irene Grandi. Plus a few ex-rental DVDs to watch (since we don’t have broadcast TV).

Bella loves the Raffaella song, and the lyrics were in the cd, so she was able to sing along to it perfectly in the car.

Here’s another version of the video, live:

Tonight’s dinner: risotto with zucchini.