The Little Things -My life as a mom at MIT LGO MBA

Things I Learned in Italy

November 16
 
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  • Beginner-level Italian Language, grazie mille a Giancarla!
  • I now like coffee - but only Italian cappuccino and espresso.  American coffee, still awful.  It helps when you are asked by kind Italians (or Brasilians or LGO classmates) to join for coffee!
  • How to drive a manual car (C-Max!)
  • Vaccine business intricacies and differences
  • Sunflower production - tons of fields!
  • Enjoying a gorgeous drive to work through the Tuscan countryside, every day.
  • Cheese, wine, olive oil, pasta, bread, salt, acqua frizzante, and arancia rossa (blood orange juice) are all I need to eat and drink.
  • Working in a different culture - work style, lunch etiquette, break times
  • Working with non-native English speakers - most of the people I’ve worked before with have learned English from living in an English speaking country, the best English speakers here have typically learned from lessons or media (tv, movies, books) and not from being immersed in the language.  big difference.
  • Enjoyed many many delicious dinners with new friends from all around the world.
  • Tourists!  It is awesome to live in a place so great that people want to visit and  funny to see the tourists all summer.  We would occasionally get this at MIT too.. people on campus during the weekends with maps trying to find their way :)
  • and becoming tourists ourselves.. I’ve literally travelled somewhere for at least a day trip outside of town every weekend since school ended in the spring!
  • Take off the whole sleeve around the neck of the wine bottle so you can see if its a cork or screwtop - you don’t need a corkscrew to open a screw-top.  :)

Tags:#italy,#coffee#food#tourists#learn#vaccines
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