Tuesday

Our class was interesting again. Because my Italian learning over the past 5 years has been quite patchy, it has been good to have some topics properly explained from start to finish – maybe not ‘finish’, but a large part .e.g direct and indirect pronouns, and the conditional tense.

After lunch I went for a walk into the main touristy part of town intending to look for some little souvenirs. Instead I bought a new leather handbag. 2 weeks ago many shops had their end-of-summer sales on. Now everything in the shops is winter. From now on I will go back to looking at churches and museums. In the late afternoon we ( our group of 20) watched and listened to a chef prepare us an interesting meal. We ate together in the evening and then several of the group members put on a little concert. We laughed and laughed, sang along when appropriate and thoroughly appreciated the skills of the performers.