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Make the focus on fantasy, magic, and imagination (all ruled by the sign Pisces). There's nothing like stepping out of a routine and into another realm to lift your spirits.
Monday, Tuesday: the Moon is in Aries
Head out into the world and make your mark, however big or small doesn't matter. The size or magnitude can always be altered later.
Wednesday, Thursday: the Moon is in Taurus
Be cautious and conserve - whether that be energy, money, or whatever. Save a little of yourself as a backup plan for when you really need it.
Friday, Saturday: the Moon is in Gemini
Chatting here, chatting there, and in-between times reading as much as possible. That's Gemini for sure!
Check your astrology chart to find which house (section of your chart) has the current Moon sign on the cusp (the beginning edge) & apply forecast information to that area of your life as well.
For example, the Moon is in Leo and one of the suggestions is to entertain - however Leo is located in the 12th house of your chart, which is an inward energy place...then have a small, quiet gathering. By contrast, if Leo is located in the 1st house of your chart, an outward energy place...have a party! Don't have an astrology chart? Click here .
It is interesting to note when the current Moon is in the same sign as your birth Moon and to see how the flavor of that day carries through the following 30 days.
Current Planet Positions:
Sun - Leo until Aug. 23
Mercury - Leo until July 30, then Virgo
Venus - Leo until Aug. 6
Mars - Scorpio until Aug. 3
Jupiter - Virgo until Sept. 9
Saturn - Sagittarius until Dec. 20, 2017
Uranus - Aries until Mar. 6, 2019
(Taurus - May 16, 2018-Nov. 7, 2018)
Neptune - Pisces until Mar. 30, 2025
Pluto - Capricorn until Nov. 20, 2024
Current Asteroid Positions:
Ceres - Aries until Feb. 5, 2017
Pallas - Aquarius until Dec. 28
Juno - Scorpio until Nov. 7
Vesta - Cancer until May 3, 2017
Chiron - Pisces until Apr. 22, 2018
Current Asteroid Transits:
Ceres - Take an active stance toward an autonomy where desirable.
Pallas - Move out of your comfort zone and effect a change (large or small).
Juno - Intense partnership emotions are in the air.
Vesta - Someone, perhaps yourself, needs some dedicated care.
Chiron - Transcend wounds and negativity through compassion.
Note: Timeframes for Moon signs, void-of-course periods, and current planet & asteroid positions are noted for Eastern time zone (USA). Please adjust according to your own location. Times are not given if the void-of-course Moon occurs for a very short period or if it occurs during the night (based on same Eastern time zone).
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- Have a sweet breakfast. Cake and Italian "croissants" (brioche) for breakfast? Che schifo! (How gross!). But habits change and now I don't mind a lovely, flaky brioche with my morning coffee…see next point.
- Drink 3-4 espressos in a day. I used to drink drip coffee or the dreaded calorie-laden flavoured latte. Now whenever I have a lull in the day I hop, skip, and jump on over to our office espresso machine!
- Not use turn indicators on my car. I was a by-the-book driver in Canada, now I don't bother with indicators because literally 90% of Italians don't either. I'm not endorsing this in anyway but the bizarre thing is Italian drivers are so much more intuitive and usually "know" what your next move is. There's a lot of eye-contact communication that happens with driving too. Like pedestrians don't dare cross unless you literally lock eyes with them, even if you've been slowing down since a block away!
- Drink an aperitivo wine before the wine with my meal. I wouldn't have thought to say drink one kind of wine, usually a white, prior to my meal for the purpose of 'getting the digestive system ready' but it's now my daily pre-dinner ritual.
- Talk with neighbors. In Italy, you're forced into a relationship with your neighbors because you are obligated to exchange a few minutes of conversation with them every time you see each other outside, but a few minutes in Italy can easily become a half-hour, especially if your neighbors are retired. And they don't keep things surface-level either, nope! You get to hear all about the surgeries they've had and where and eventually you'll know their entire life story from childhood.
- Buy bread. I have to buy fresh bread every day here. That's just what you do. There needs to be fresh bread on the dinner table at all times otherwise someone might die.
Happy Friday! I'm making good on my "New Post Fridays" promise and thought it might be fun to do a quick little list of things that I now do every day that I never did before moving to Italy. Let me know if you can relate or have something else to add to the list!
This is literally the opening line in my short story that was chosen for publication in the anthology "Once Upon An Expat". Aren't you just itching to read the rest?! Well pop over to Amazon and buy the book. You won't regret it, it's filled with heart-wrenching and laugh-inducing stories of strong women, young and old, who've found themselves all over this world and consequently found themselves in interesting situations to say the least! *cough* naked manicure in France *cough*
The world is so small. It's something I'm finding to be more and more true as my expat experience continues and I meet people and hear stories that are either identical to mine or...like in this case, mine in reverse. I stumbled upon Laura's Facebook page when it came up as "Suggested Pages" on my Facebook and the title of "My Canadian Working Holiday Experience" obviously caught my eye as I did the exact same thing here in Italy last year. Laura and I ended up talking and essentially realizing we are living the same life- she is Italian and set on living in Canada, I am Canadian and set on living in Italy. We are both young, twenty-somethings trying to follow a dream to live in a place that is not our own but that we want very much to be. Is it a case of the grass being greener in each other's yard? Well we decided to interview each other and find out!
1. Favorite thing about Canada/Italy.
Jasmine: My favorite thing about Italy is the amount of beauty and history that you can find everywhere, even when you're not looking for it. Somedays I just turn a corner and happen to see a medieval castle or an old villa covered in wisteria and suddenly my morning drive looks like something from a postcard.
Laura: I love how Canada offers you such beautiful landscapes, you can find, from the same point of view, the ocean and the mountains with even snow on them! It's just breathtaking to watch the sunset on the beach, and then the skyscrapers and the view from the space needle in Vancouver, it's just amazing, I also love how Canadians look always happy and relaxed, no matter what, they always get the time to worry about how your day is going and listen to you, or even just open the door at the mall for you. I just love them.
2. An ideal day in Canada/Italy (or like how you would most prefer to spend a free day).
Jasmine: My ideal day in Italy is probably waking up on the Amalfi Coast and having a creamy cappuccino with a warm brioche overlooking the sea, going to the beach and swimming and tanning all day, having a cold shower and heading out for spaghetti allo scoglio with a cold bottle of pinot grigio. And to top it all off, having a gelato while squishing my toes in the waves breaking on the shoreline.
Laura: I lived in Vancouver Island, Nanaimo for a year, every time I had a free day I loved to explore the nature, get in the car and just go, watching the eagles fly above me and go to the beach, listen to the ocean, with the mountains and the other little islands on the back and the wood behind me. I just love the woods here, you can find trees 600 years old.
3. Favorite food to eat in Canada vs. your favorite food to eat in Italy.
Jasmine: I love all Italian food. I haven't met a dish that I haven't liked here. I am particularly impartial to seafood though, so I love being along the Italian coasts and having fresh fish, mussels, clams, octopus etc. When I'm in Canada, I love eating ethnic foods and the salmon sashimi in Vancouver is the absolute best in the world!
Laura: Poutine, I LOVE Poutine, even though people say if you don't eat it in Quebec it is not real Poutine. I also love the salmon in Canada, the best salmon I've ever eaten. In Italy, I love pizza, there is no pizza in the world like the Italian one, and of course, homemade pasta, spaghetti alla chitarra with homemade tomato sauce, carbonare, any kind of pasta. Yes, I am italian.
4. Biggest pet peeve about Canada/Italy.
Jasmine: The bureaucracy. It is really, truly insane how much red tape and bureaucracy exists in this country. I just remember the first time I went to get a codice fiscale ended up becoming three days instead of one because each time I showed up, they would request a different document or photocopies (and of course photocopies have to be done elsewhere because it would be completely illogical for the Agenzia delle Entrata to have one when almost every application requires photocopies…!).
Laura: Canada it's better than Italy in many prespectives, but this thing that everything closes at 2 am max, that's heartbreaking!! We start to party at 2 am! I also don't understand how can Canadian restaurants close their kitchen at 9 pm, that would be the busiest hour in Italy, it has been hard to get used to canadian hours, but of course Canadians sleep much more hours than Italians at night and that's probably why they are so relaxed and we are always so nervous.
5. What you miss most from "home".
Jasmine: I miss Canada's insane friendliness and multiculturalism. It's not that Italians are not friendly, but the service industry is not shaped the same way as in Canada and I've encountered very few cashiers who have smiled at me and asked me about my day. The multiculturalism is something that defines Canada, a country built on different cultures and immigration. Most Canadians I know are very knowledgeable and appreciative of a variety of cultures because that is how we grew up whereas Europe in general is only at the point of learning to tolerate differences.
Laura: of course, the food, it's pretty hard to find real Italian food or ingredients in Canada and it was hard at the beginning, I love that you can find restaurant of almost every Country in the world though.
6. What would you change of Italy/Canada if you could?
Jasmine: I wouldn't change it but I'd love to fast-forward a generation and see what the country is like when the children and the grandchildren of immigrants to Italy have come of age, those that have grown up Italian. I'd love to see Italy embrace ethnic diversity like Canada does, but I know this will require time.
Laura: The geographic location, can you imagine if Vancouver had L.A. weather?
7. Describe Canadians/Italians in one word.
Jasmine: Passionate.
Laura: Polite.
8. One piece of advice to Italians who want to move/travel to Canada and vice versa.
Jasmine: If you're Canadian and want to move to Italy, my biggest piece of advice is learn the language before moving, or at the very least, the grammatical basics. To say it will make your life and experience exponentially easier is an understatement.
Laura: Just do it! Better lifestyle, more jobs, lots of nature. You need to learn how to deal with the huge distance from home and hour difference but besides that, it's a better world, even just as a human being, you're much more respected in Canada and if you work hard you will be pay back one day, in everything you do. They also don't care if you don't know English so well, they respect anyone anyways, but it's better for you to learn the basic stuff before, for your own goodness.
9. Slang that you learned from your adopted country.
Che palle!
Che schifo!
Not even sure if these are considered slang though!
Hey buddy what's up?
Being the third wheel.
I'm out of here.
I dunno
10. Something you had no idea existed until you lived in Canada/Italy.
Jasmine: There are a lot of things I never knew existed until I lived in Italy:
- an entire section in grocery stores dedicated to intimate soaps
- condom vending machines
- 5 liter jugs of wine
- extremely specialized shops
- poutine, never heard of it before!
- deers walking down the streets and crossing almost as normal people
11. How an angry Canadian would act vs how an angry Italian would act.
Jasmine: An angry Italian doesn't hold back on emotions or gestures at all. They'd really put in a whole effort to get their point across and the anger would go beyond words, you would see the physical aspect of it as well in body language. There would be no 'beating around the bush', an angry Italian says exactly what he/she is thinking whereas Canadians try to be as polite as possible or as politically correct as possible and maybe even ends up apologizing in the end.
Canada: "I'm sorry but I don't agree with what your saying"
Italian: "What?! Are you f*****g kidding me?! You piece of s*** I will kill you! "
Here are more photographs from Laura's life in Canada:
And here is a little "biography" of Laura, written in her own words:
Laura is a 23 years old who grew up in the north of Italy, Turin (shown above). She always pictured herself living in America, no matter where, but on that side of the world. It has been just a dream for many years, but after doing lots of researches and talking with people and studying English with TV series and book as teachers, she decided to apply for the Canadian working-holiday Visa and to try to live and work in Vancouver for a year. This experience was the best of her life, at the point that, once in Italy again, she decided to move again to Canada as a student in the tourism field. She also learnt a good English thanks to the Canadian family who hosted her and became her second family. With her future husband Gianluca, who went visit her in Canada during the year and fell in love with it as well, they decided to risk it all and do what they love, discover Canada and work there for at least 2 years, travelling as much as they can in the days off and exploring the Canadian culture more than ever. They're getting married on July 2nd and they will leave again to Canada on August 11th to follow their dream together.
Make sure to check out Laura's version of this blog post here. Her blog about her experience in Canada can be found here: https://mycanadianworkingholidayexperience.wordpress.com and her Facebook page is hyperlinked in the intro paragraph to this post!
Let's (Not) Compare Lives
You come to alot of realizations when you move to Italy. Like I've come to realize how beautiful an invention the dryer machine is, how the concept of a queue is underrated, or how fettucine alfredo is a terrible trick American restaurant chains play on you from the time you're born, the culmination of humiliation which comes when you first try to order it here. Georgette of Girl in Florence had this fantastic article on: Things [we] didn't do before coming to Italy. One of those things was this gem:
Stop playing the 'lets compare lives game'
Ok I can't totally admit that I never do this still, of course that evil traits comes back to haunt me from time to time. But in the states it was much worse. You are taught to go to university, resign yourself to a ton of debt without even complete job security but that's just how it is. And it's always about what someone else is doing, how much they're making etc. At least that's how I personally felt. While some might claim that doesn't matter, it kinda does – this being because in America 'if you just work hard' as hard as this person, or that person – you might just be a billionaire jetting off to Singapore for a weekend, right? I get that its changing due to the economic crises but I left in 2007. Lets be honest for a second, that is never going to happen in Italy. You either are lucky enough to have money and/or work remotely from this amazing country and you don't compare as much because – what's there to compare? We are all more or less in the same boat. Unless you areBerlusconi, then you can steal and cheat and for some crazy reason, enough people still love you.
This particular point is HUGE. I do not compare lives with anyone I know in Italy. You know how back in Canada/USA if you're at a cocktail party, the first question asked is inevitably: so what do you do? And it's not usually asked with honest intentions...let's be honest. We ask that question to size up our conversation partner and to see how we are doing in life relative to them. You may argue this if you've never lived abroad where people don't talk about work or jobs as incessantly as across the Atlantic. But I swear, it's the hard truth. There is a stark difference between here and there. Here, besides my work colleagues, I literally have zero idea as to what my friends do for work. I have literally no idea what their significant other does. AND NO ONE ASKS. I bet you know the jobs of every single person you're friends/acquaintances with right? I know these same fun facts about everyone back home. We display it on Facebook too- real estate conferences, white coat ceremonies, bar calls, whiskey night with the firm partners, post-call wine, #trustmeI'manengineer etc etc. I'm guilty of it too and I find myself still updating my friends on Facebook with job-related info (buy the book Once Upon An Expat!), it's a habit that's engrained in us but one that I think we could do without. I am now very cautious and aware about asking the work question to anyone as I think it's better to be like the Italians in this respect. It actually results in a feeling of community and camaraderie rather than competition, and those two former concepts tend to fit much better around a dinner table and a bottle of wine.
New Post Fridays
Lately I've been very naughty with the blog and not being consistent with new posts which they say commonly leads to the eventual un-following and demise of all blogs eventually. So I decided to let ya'll know that you can expect a new post on Fridays, I will aim for every Friday but it could also be every second Friday (cut me some slack here, we have a wedding in September to plan for!). But yes, this is just another reason to love Fridays. And remember you can keep more close tabs on things here in Italy over on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/questadolcevitablog.
We just got back from a day in Rome yesterday. I say "day" because we left Bergamo Sunday morning, arrived in Rome for noon and left promptly 24 hours later. To say it was a whirlwind trip doesn't do it justice. I would also love to say that the motive for the trip was food as is most things I do in this life, but unfortunately that wouldn't be true either. We went to check off yet another bureaucratic fun task- the attaining of a nulla osta (yes another one, they love these things) for our wedding. This entails going to the Embassy of Canada in Rome and presenting a book-size folder of documents procured from your prior Canadian home essentially saying you've never been married at any time between the ages of 16 and your current age, then you have to swear it, then you have to show proof of actually being Canadian and of actually having a real-life Italian that wants to marry you. But enough of that, very boring indeed, suffice to say that we are now in possession of this magical nulla osta that gets us one step closer to getting married here in Italy.
I know what you really want to hear- what did I eat. Well ladies and gents, Massi and I had the opportunity to take one of the tours offered by The Roman Food Tour. We took what was probably one of the most popular, if not the most classic- concentrated around the historical center and featuring stops at The Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps. As background information, I should disclose that this was my fourth international food tour, the previous being The Greenwich Village and NoLita tours in New York City, as well as the Milan Food Tour. Hence, I'm getting pretty well-versed in food tours. It's a hard job, but someone's gotta do it right?
The Roman Food Tour: Wine and Food Tour in the Historical Center
The Roman Food Tour is a 4-hour walking tour that promises you'll eat like the Gods and learn some cocktail party pleasers along the way. Our group had about 15 people in it, I thought the size was good because hey, the more the merrier. Food tours in general are always a good time because everyone is on vacation and typically chatty and wine-happy. This particular tour has five stops. The meeting point is at Antica Salumeria, a stone's throw away from the mythical Pantheon. Our guide was Raluca, an expat herself to Rome which I always find to be an endearing touch to tours. They often know even more about Italy than the Italians because they've had to learn the ropes themselves and they bring a mix of local/expat insight to the table. Raluca is very kind and approachable and was filled with 'did you knows' about everything from the origin of the handshake (the Romans invented it) to the way to distinguish artisan gelato from 'artisan' gelato.
Our first stop consisted of speciality coffee and introductions where I absent-mindedly ordered water, having already prepared my tastebuds for something less coffee-flavored and more alcohol-flavored. I ended up stealing most of Massi's delicious coffee granita:
Next, we tackled aperitivo time back at Antica Salumeria. There was almost a slight guffaw here when the waiters gave us plastic glasses for our Frascati, a delicate DOC white wine produced in the province of Lazio where Rome is found. This perhaps wouldn't bother anyone since most of us are just wanting to get the bottles popping and the good times rollin', but I could see the rare wine enthusiast get a bit squirmy on this topic. The spread of affetati (cold cuts of different cured and cooked meats) and cheeses was extraordinary. You are first presented with pieces of mozzarella di bufala; the creaminess and slight sweetness of the buffalo's milk is both an olfactory and gustatory experience. It goes down much too easily between sips of Frascati. You then have your choice (dangerous) of a variety of Italian cured meats and cheeses, all hand-picked of course by the tour and cut fresh. Don't miss out on the coppa di testa. I won't translate it for you, but it's marvelous and not an intuitive choice that most tourists would make themselves.
The next stop is Hotel Fontana, directly across from the Trevi Fountain and arguably the star of the whole show. You'll climb up to the top of the hotel where a jaw-dropping view of the fountain awaits. It's undoubtably a hidden gem that if not priceless, is more than worth the tour cost itself to get a reserved table there. If the view was the star of the show, the wine wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. While you pity all the cramped tourists below, you'll sip on the finest wines Italy has to offer like a queen. Our samples included a 2010 Barolo and an Amarone della Valpolicella. The Barolo is to die for, as is the black truffle spread and 100 year old balsamic vinegar from Modena that you'll taste to accompany the wines.
"Dinner" is a tris of pasta just a short walk from Hotel Fontana, again partnered with a yummy wine that I absolutely forgot to note the name of. The atmosphere in the restaurant is rather unique- the walls are covered with drawings and the first floor filled to the brim with tourists. This stop is the weakest link on the tour in my opinion but Rome may be to blame for this one. Being so tourist-centric, you very typically have to be in the know and get out of the historical center to eat a decent dish of pasta. Every terrible plate of pasta I've had in my 8 years experience of Italy has been in Rome and unfortunately this one didn't break the pattern. After Ranluca finished her speech about the joys of pasta and the importance of the al dente concept, we were given three different types of pasta that were probably cooked another 20 minutes past the point of al dente. To be honest, it was similar to something one might get from Olive Garden or any Italian food chain in North America. Was this a one-off? It's possible. Did the other tourists on the tour (a mix of British and Americans) realize? Not sure. I think if you had travelled anywhere else prior to Rome, the chances are very high that you'd have already experienced a really good plate of pasta. If you hadn't and Rome was your first stop, well ignorance is bliss in this case.
Our final stop on the tour was at Pompi, said to be home to one of the city's best tiramisu. There are now four of them in Rome but this one is conveniently located near the Spanish Steps. You get a choice of different spins on the classic, or you could just go for the original which is what I did…sorry I don't have a photo of the tiramisu, it was literally in my belly within five minutes. It comes in an adorable little box like takeaway and is a cute idea which enables you to enjoy it wherever you please during your evening in Roma. The Spanish Steps would be ideal however they are currently being renovated so best to have a backup backdrop for devouring your dessert.
The view of the Trevi Fountain and the wines served at this stop are the stuff dreams are made of. The guide is knowledgable and entertaining and you definitely get your money's worth of food and friends at the end of it all. (The negatives section below looks way longer than the positives but it's just because I had a bit of explaining to do, list-wise, the positives would far outrun the negatives!).
Our tour was slightly rushed at some points and I'm not sure of where the culprit might be, whether we were slow eaters or we got off on the wrong foot while waiting for our colossal meat and cheese boards at Antica Salumeria (they took awhile to arrive). This was not a problem at all for the group, I think everyone was fairly oblivious to this however, as an Italian-speaker, it was quite blatant to me that there was some tension at our stop at the Hotel Fontana. The fellow there gave our poor tour guide a berating for being late, responded to her questions rather rudely and all in all was clearly in a hurry to get us to leave ASAP. I must emphasize, this was not the fault of the tour but it created a feeling of inhospitality for anyone who might happen to understand Italian (or body language really).
This tour is perfect, in my opinion, for first-timers to Rome because you get a sampling of everything from food to culinary facts to sight-seeing. You will leave wiser and a few pounds heavier!
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I've been a very bad blogger and not written much on this last trip back to Canada. I've been very busy eating so I apologize. People always wonder why I eat like a fiend over in these parts where us North Americans are only known for our terrible cuisine compared to that of the Europeans, however, I come here to eat ethnic foods that I can't get in Italy. So there, curiosity satisfied right? Anyways, the update here is I'm headed back to Italy. The process to get me back legally took a total 4 months or so from when my Working Holiday visa expired last year in December. Essentially I have the most fantastic workplace and it has been them and a team of lawyers that have had to jump all the bureaucratic hurdles required to get approval for an EU Blue Card which allows certain skills and professions to kind of be fast-tracked through EU immigration. It might be comparable to the Skilled Workers Program in Canada and is more or less an EU ploy to lure brains from all over the world. Evidently my brain passes the test! Yipee! I'm not going to write all about how you get this because there's this thing called Google, but I will say that like a lot of visa/work permit processes, the main bulk of the application unfortunately must be done by the company looking to hire you (aka the sponsor in some circumstances) and well, given the choice, most would prefer to avoid giving themselves extra work when they could really just hire their fellow countrymen or someone with an EU passport. And I get that. Immigration is the same story no matter which country you're trying to get into, it will test your patience, your persistence, and even your bank account in some cases. But in the end, people are still moving all around this big planet (just look at House Hunters International!) and they are doing it legally (I hope!), so it is by no means an impossible task given the right circumstances and the right job!
It's hard to identify with all you lucky betches with your EU passports when you come to Italy and haven't set foot in a Questura. Yes, you're supposed to register and still apply for your permesso but it's rarely as big of a deal or as enforced as it is for us coming from across the ocean. Yes, I'm bitter because I'm jealous. I'll admit it freely, no shame. Because I would say that 50% of the headache and strife that comes from moving to Italy is caused by legalities that basically prevent 90% of God-fearing, pasta-loving non-EU citizens from doing it in the first place. Now of the 10% that do, half of those probably succeed through maternal citizenship, the other 5% through marriage to an Italian and the last bit...that's us, the unlucky ones that need to jump through the flaming bureaucratic hoops of immigration to Europe. It's even worse if you're American because that means you don't even have the lovely Working Holiday Visa option which typically buys you a year in Italy to figure out how to spend forever there. Usually the average Jane must resort to the Study Visa, taking courses as a semester or year abroad which works wonderfully until you've completed every possible art history course known to man and are at the point of contemplating a PhD in theology and becoming a nun just to stay in The Eternal City. Ah, you EU Expats don't know this struggle. The constant countdown on your little green and purple visa, stamped in your passport, pretending to be innocently harmless when in fact it's a ticking bomb waiting to explode and destroy your dreams. Oh the angst, the agony! I'm writing this from Canada, waiting on a visa, can you tell?
Photo credit: Tia Taylor (www.tiataylor.com), also because I was too lazy to take a photo of my own visa and my manicure is definitely not as cute!
For Tia's very detailed study visa information, here's the link: http://tiataylor.com/?p=416
For more detailed information on Moving to Italy, check out the link below to The Italy Project 365:
Welcome to the West
Summer in my hometown is her claim to fame. You might fall over in your seat when I say this but it must be said- in my opinion, summer in Edmonton, Canada and in Italy are on par with each other. I love both equally but because they are so different. Edmonton is festivals and patios, sunlight until 11 at night, a golden-tinged river valley (the largest continuous green space in all of North America), and those blue skies. It's country music casual, cowboy boots and ice cream on tailgates. Summer in Italy is in some ways more pretentious. It's lingering aperitivo hour in a piazza, people watching as the European jet set break out the season's cruise collections, zipping around on motorcycles and Vespas, and finding yourself seaside or vineyard bound on the weekends. It's soundtrack is a mix of Italian and American summer songs set on repeat or remixed endlessly, the catchy choruses echoing from the innards of every outdoor club for miles.
I'm taking the time to enjoy every minute here in the far West. It's such an honor and blessing to be able to call both the New and Old Worlds home. I'm currently sipping a 2013 Toscana Rosso at home with the windows opened to the inky, cool black night. Even if I were blindfolded, I'd know in an instant where I am- I know the difference between Italy's midnight air and Canada's. What a thing to say...eh?!
Photo credit: Russell Mann (Insta: rmann1 and Flickr: Rmann88)
Don't Take Your Sky For Granted
One day, in the not so distant future, you'll find yourself living in Milan/New York City/London/(insert a fabulous city here) and you'll be complacent about your Albertan roots. You'll tire of having to explain where in Canada your city is and pretty soon you won't bother trying to sing its praises. But one day, in a concrete jungle or hazy metropolis with angry Milanese drivers gesturing wildly at one another, amidst intermittent yelling and honking and ambulance sirens...you'll look up at the sky and you'll miss this one here. This big, blue, never-ending expanse of sky over your head. A sky that you would've sworn exists everywhere in the world, I mean, it's just a sky. But you were wrong. You'll miss this Alberta sky and you'll try to describe it in words to people who have never seen it but it's impossible because the feeling it gives you, deep down, it's indescribable- it's the feeling of fast cars and freedom and endless possibility. And you breathe that mountain air, the first few out of the airport like a fish being put back into water: huge gulps as if you haven't been breathing for a hundred days, as if you couldn't remember what oxygen in your lungs feels likes. Your body remembers this air and this sky. You lean back on the park bench and take it all in because one day, you'll be back in Milan/New York City/London/(insert a fabulous city here).
This is my grandma. When I was little I used to call her "Poo-Poo", my Canadian-ized way of pronouncing the Cantonese version of grandma. After having met Massi, we've actually taken to calling her Nonna and my grandparents Nonni. Somehow despite the inconsistency between the Italian language and their ethnic origin, it seems natural. In the photograph, she is wearing her "Nonna" apron- a gift from a soon-to-be Italian grandson-in-law.
My grandparents came to Canada in their youth, the exact age of which I am unsure of. They did not speak any English and my grandma did not know how to boil water (this fact is one that my mom likes to recite often as to illustrate the power of time and necessity- my grandma is arguably one of the greatest cooks I've ever met). They opened a neighbourhood grocery store and the daily demand of speaking English with their customers led to their acquisition of the language. Their family is an excellent example of the Canadian dream, an immigration success story: all their children are university graduates (engineers and a dietician) and their grandchildren as well- so far we have a pharmacist (yours truly), a medical doctor, a biostatistics researcher, a performing arts graduate, and a veterinarian on our team roster. Still to come are an aeronautics engineer and accountant! And while all the accomplishments of their offspring are honourable, I would dare to say that my grandparents are whom we should be the most proud of. Unfortunately this is only a revelation I've come to after having somewhat 'followed in their footsteps' by moving to a country that is not my own and living in a language that I've had to learn. Moving to Italy has taught me the value of my grandparents.
My brother and I never learnt Chinese. We never went to Chinese school on Saturdays like all the other first generation children, nor did we want to. We just wanted to be like everyone else and speak English with a Canadian accent and eat bologna sandwiches at lunch. I'm almost certain there were times growing up when I might have cringed at something my grandparents (or also my dad, for that matter) had said, a small grammatical error that would have made me want to disappear. They were betraying me by giving away the fact that we weren't truly Canadian. It's funny how time and experience changes things. Now, I watch and listen in awe as my grandparents switch effortlessly between their dialect and English. My dad is actually trilingual, he speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The other day, I went to lunch with my grandma at our favourite noodle house in the city and I watched with glowing pride as she shakily wrote out our order in the Chinese characters, so intricate that they make English look like primitive caveman writing.
The fact that my grandparents and parents are bilingual (and trilingual) never crossed my mind in the past and it was surely not something I looked upon with admiration or pride. Only now can I appreciate what a feat this is. Only now are their accents enduring, sweet little reminders of how far they've come, how far we've come. I will try to remind myself of this every time I feel embarrassed or ashamed of my North American accent in Italian, my inherent inability to roll my Rs will now be my battle scar or better yet, my victory flag dancing in the wind.
Home is Home is Home
Back in the lights of my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Here's my Italy update: I had to come back to Canada because I was just back in Italy this time as a tourist and that gives you 90 days maximum before you need to return. Today I have just sent off my work visa application to the Consulate of Italy in Vancouver and now the waiting begins which should be around 2 weeks. The end result I'm waiting on is hopefully another shiny new year-long visa in my passport! So cross your finger and toes with me. Always a strange feeling to be back home. Home is always home, no matter how much I love Italy there's nothing quite like driving around your city, the city that grew you and that you grew up in and not have to think about the route. My muscle memory drives my car along all the streets, I subconsciously know what lane I need to be in, when a one-way street pops up. My radio station is still pre-programmed and I am not exaggerating when I say there's few moments comparable to being away and coming home and hearing your favourite country songs blasting from the car speakers, knowing the words to every song, singing aloud like a crazed person. The other thing that makes me smile at home are the Canadians. Listening to their unassuming accents, the clear, crisp English all around me is so indescribable, the feeling is close to having chills up your back. That's what happens when you live in a second language for awhile and go back home. I love that everyone smiles and asks me how my day is going and I ask the same thing and we smile like idiots at each other while I fish out change for my double double. And people hold the door open and move aside to let you walk past them. What trivial things that make Canada so lovely.
The Best of Bergamo
I must admit, the title is a bit deceiving, I'm watching "The Best of Me" (Il Meglio di Me) on Rai5 at this very moment so that's the story behind it. I'm not sure I'd call these photos the best of Bergamo as it seems every corner you turn in this city, you stumble upon the next best thing. I took a solo hike last Friday up to San Vigilio when it already felt like summer in the city. The tourists were packed like sardines at the terrace right outside the funicolare, taking in the sun while surrounded by the wisteria blooms creeping on the city's ancient walls. I've always attested to adore summers in Italy, but springtime is having a moment with me this year. It's not hot enough yet to sweat through your cutest outfits and your makeup stays pristine (while in summer, by mid-day, my eyebrows practically slide down to my cheeks)! Anyways, that's it for today, I'm headed back to bawl my eyes out with the film adaptation of basically every Nicholas Sparks book ever written. For some bizarre reason, I tend to tear up even more watching these movies in Italian and I can't figure out why. Italian seems to lend itself to highly emotional scenes, perhaps the expansive lexicon may be to blame?
This past weekend, Massi and I woke up at 4am to board a bus to Assisi in the region of Umbria. This was my first church trip as we went with the other couples from our marriage course and our priest, Don Stefano. After having spent so many hours with these couples, we've slowly been building a relationship with each other that hopefully will endure past the course and continue as we build marriages and families. The region of Umbria is probably my second favorite after Tuscany, it is very similar, perhaps even more lush and green. We spent the Saturday visiting the Church of St. Francis, stopping just for a quick gelato (beer in our case!) in the afternoon and dinner, before heading to see the musical Chiara di Dio which spoke of the life of St. Clare. I have not been "officially" Catholic for long, I went through the RCIA process a few years ago but it's just such a soul-stirring experience to actually be following in the footsteps of the people I had learnt about and read about in books, to look out over the Umbrian hills and know that Francesco (St. Francis in English) once had the same view...To say a prayer in Clare's courtyard where she would have prayed in peace among flowers and under the bright blue sky. All I can say about Assisi is go. Go especially if you're contemplating God, or feeling a void in your heart, I guarantee you will find the former and fill the latter.
My Sketchbook in Italy
Italy has always inspired the world's artists and judging from my new sketchbook, it has certainly inspired me. Here's a smattering of pencil sketches I've recently worked on. People and faces I've tended to have avoided in the past as I'm too prone to perfection with portraits and I can't seem to embrace the inevitable asymmetrical nature of it all.
Learning a second language is a story that never ends which is both a beautiful and ominous thing. Some days, you feel like you're the next Einstein with how much language you've managed to cram into your brain and pull out and conjugate all at once. Other days, you stumble over your words, searching like a lost child for a way to say something so darned simple it's infuriating and shameful to say the very least. The dreaded question asked of expats is "so are you fluent yet?". I think this is the dumbest question. If you've moved to a foreign country as an adult and learnt a second language, I just don't think fluency should be the goal. People should ask instead about how you feel about a language. What your relationship with it is because that's what it is, a relationship with highs and lows, good days and bad days. I'm quite the advocate for continuous learning. I meet alot of people who do their few classes, or their study abroad semester, or finish with a language-learning app and they often give themselves a pat on the back and that's where the story stops. It doesn't stop there though, not for me at least. The photographs above are of my little vocabulary book that I carry around with me, filled to the brim with (colmare is the verb in Italian, it's actually written in that book!) words that I had to look up, phrases that struck me and expressions I can never remember. I think this is a great thing to do if you're learning Italian. Every now and then, I flip through the book and see if any of the words I've committed to memory now. I believe Jhumpa Lahiri did the same thing during her year of living in Rome, she claims to have filled notebooks full of words that she wanted to learn. The truth of the matter is, I'll probably never learn 100% of the words in my book but even if I manage a mere 5-10%, that's a nice handful of words that I never knew before- in fact, the second photo is of the first page of my book from years ago and today I now know most of those words.
Should You Move to Italy?
I started the blog in 2014 and since then, I've had the opportunity to chat with a surprising number of people from all over the world with one thing in common- a dream to one day, live in Italy. I have in no way been here a long time relative to other expats, but even after talking to my share of them here, I've come to one very key conclusion. Before you start thinking seriously about moving to Italy, you should ask yourself this question: am I someone that sees the silver lining and the glass half full?
While every expat situation is different and is linked to so many factors such as job, support networks, language ability etc...I truly believe your answer to this question needs to be yes if you are going to live in Italy. It's going to be your very foundation on which to build your experience. If you made a list of pros and cons for life in Italy, you'd probably end up with an equal number on both sides which is why I've come to realize that the happy expats here share the optimism trait; they see Italy for what she is but choose to revel in the beauty and not the bureaucracy. These are the people that can have the worst day ever but can take a simple walk in Piazza Navona at dusk to right all wrongs.
Everyone likes to think themselves an eternal optimist, but we're not. Everyone likes to think they would find the silver lining in any situation but Italy will prove you wrong. I would have described myself as patient, even very patient, before moving here. After 7 days of (not)-lining up for hours at the immigration office, I learned something new about myself- that I'm not as patient as I liked to believe. And it's the same for whether you are able to focus on the good things, day in and day out. Italy will demand that of you and if you can't give her that, you will grow to resent her.
This post is not mean to dissuade anyone from the dream. I absolutely adore Italy and the choice I made to move here was the right one for me personally, but I also wanted to emphasize that it's not necessarily that right choice for everyone. Just make sure Italy is really, truly your dream and then by all means, dare to live it!
Milan and Magnolias in Spring
Milan has long been far from my favourite city, but I'm starting to bump her up on my list slowly but surely. Especially after Tuesday when I was introduced to her charm by a friend and local, Tiziana. It's actually quite a small world as Tiziana moved from Milan to Canada so we share not only the ability to annoyingly switch languages with each other, but also the awareness of cultural nuances in both countries. We took the train in from Bergamo, specifically to see Da Vinci's rendering of The Last Supper which is really like a dinner at a coveted Milanese restaurant because you absolutely need reservations and you must make them a great deal in advance. The Last Supper is haunting and also a bit sad in the state that it's in (despite having being recently restored)- sometimes seeing art like this, the fading colors, the cracks, reminds me of time and the slow decomposition of beauty. On the flip side, I guess we must think to use this knowledge and really luxuriate in the beauty of every moment, as it's fleeting, unless it's art done by fresco, in which case, it will last a very long time. Surprisingly the best part of the day (next to the two gelato stops we made), was La Vigna di Leonardo (Leonardo's Vineyard) which can be found right across from The Last Supper. A ten Euro ticket gets you into a wonderfully well-kept villa (belonging to a family of which the name escapes me) and in the backyard, in the middle of bustling Milan, you'll find a small vineyard growing the exact grape variety that was once gifted and curated by Leonardo when he lived in the city. Spring is upon us here in Italy, the pink blossoms on the magnolia trees and the sweetness of almond flowers are everywhere. Oh, and so are the lemons...on Dolce and Gabbana purses, dresses, and shoes that is.
To be blatantly honest, I think the appeal of blogs/Instagram/Snapchat etc is to allow us all to be a tad voyeuristic and just get a sneak peek into the lives of people we don't know. Personally, I know that I've always been interested in the lives of expats abroad, hence my House Hunters International obsession. Everything seems like normal life but cooler and with more wine (ok, maybe I'm only talking about if you live in France or Italy here!). So instead of blabbing on, here's how my weekend went presented as a mini photostory.
Friday Night: dinner at an agriturismo with friends from Massi's soccer team, took minimal pictures but essentially we stayed there from 9pm until midnight and then rolled home.
Saturday: this was a particularly unique weekend because one of my childhood friends (+ her work friend) from Alberta came to visit me and so we met up in Milan for shopping and eats!
Missing: aperitivo on the 7th floor of La Rinascente.
Sunday: started off the morning with a run/hike up to this hilltop church in order to stave away the impending guilt from the 'pranzo della domenica' that was about to happen.
...basically after Sunday lunch you're so stuffed that you have to 'digest' for a couple hours and we usually lay around like sloths or have a quick walk in the city before heading back home and preparing for Monday. The End.
Today was Palm Sunday and we were terrible Catholics and didn't make it out of bed to morning mass. We did, however, make it to the Sunday lunch table which was more packed than a routine church service (except for that of our favourite priest). It was a wonderfully sunny first day of spring here in Bergamo and we simply could not waste it. So off we went on the trusty motorcycle. We were feeling the Sunday blues by late afternoon and though we had originally had our hearts set on Lake Como, we contented ourselves instead with going in search of castles fit for a bonafide princess (me). Here is a quick smattering of what we found literally ten minutes from Bergamo. It felt like we could have been stepping onto the set of Game of Thrones. When life gives you lemons, days like today- being able to literally walk around castles a stone's throw from your house is my version of lemonade.
I am clearly not your constant gardener so first off, can someone please tell me what kind of flowers the pink ones I painted are? I painted from an untitled photograph so excuse my terrible floral ignorance. I have a thumb stained with paints, but none of those colors are green. A quick commentary on these- I've been working with oils and acrylics lately but the last two days I've been wanting to do watercolors. Problem is, I don't have any here in Italy and while I could have just hopped, skipped, and jumped over to the supermarket, I started experimenting with the "Giotto" brand water-based markers that are basically a commonplace in all Italian elementary schools. Essentially your standard Mr. Sketch markers minus the artificial fragrance. Turns out, if you add water (and fairy dust), they make a great substitute for watercolors! Here are two paintings done with them. The colors are a bit muted compared to in real life, but it's a bit grey here in Northern Italy today so I blame that.
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Our Sunday went a bit like this: Mass, bread-buying, prosecco and Campari spritz at Balzar, pranzo, the longest passeggiata in heels completed by yours truly in the Upper City, pizza, and Spotlight. I'm not feeling particularly verbacious today, in fact I've been a painting machine these last few days so I'll just say have a fantastic start to your week a tutti!
Let's just tag this post #storyofmylifeinItaly. It's Tuesday night and we've just finished dinner (it's 22:15 by the way). I'm simply amused by the fact that we went out for a run before dinner and then promptly sat down to platefuls of chestnut gnocchi smothered in butter and sage sauce with freshly grated Parmigiano. And this is precisely why my beloved wedding dress ordered 2.5 years ago no longer fits. What's really exciting is that this is the first time I've made these gnocchi in the correct way as the recipe calls for 'chestnut flour' which I could never seem to find in Canada. This specific flour gives the gnocchi a very slight sweetness which makes for the perfect combination with butter and sage from our winter garden. Here's the recipe from one of my old posts:
Chestnut Gnocchi with a Butter and Sage Sauce from Two Greedy Italians Eat Italy (Gnocchi di Castagne con Burron e Salvia)
Try it out and let me know how it goes, it's probably my new favourite dish (for this week at least)!
So if you've been following along at all or even just read the About Me section, you know that I studied Italian for a good few years at university and henceforth, I am fully capable of conducting most everyday situations and conversations in the adopted language that I love. Yet it might come as a shock to you that often, I intentionally speak English instead.
It never dawned on me to write on this topic until Thursday night when I had the most magical "first date" expat-style with a very worldly Korean student who has been living here for the last four years. Beyond the usual immediate bonding topics, we especially got a good laugh out of the realization that while we both speak Italian, we sometimes will pretend that we don't in opportune or very specific moments. Why you ask? Because customer service in Italy is NON-EXISTENT and this Korean girl and I are VISIBLY NOT ITALIAN. This leads to very suggestive situations where people have refused to wait on us in fancypants shops or just been plain rude. Now I'm not trying to play the victim because I know that even Italians don't necessarily get the best service and that there's even intra-Italian discrimination based on where in Italy you're from etc. As well, there is not a single place in the world, Canada included, where there is not some form of racial profiling whether we are conscious of it or not (I believe there was a recent investigative report into this in Canada in fact).
The point of this post is that the two of us speak English to get better treatment because clearly being American/British/Australian or whatever is "far superior to being from an Asian country and more worthy of respect". Sickening, but true over here. Our tactics are fairly similar in that sometimes we will start a conversation with an English greeting so there is a slightly increased chance the person helping you will actually help and be somewhat cheery/polite, continue in Italian, and end the conversation with a "grazie, thank you, have a good day!". In fact, my Canadian friend, despite being white (and in my opinion, could be Italian), does the same thing at grocery stores here. She told me that her blue eyes, bone structure, and stature make Italians think she's Eastern European and therefore lumped right in with us Asians I suppose.
What baffles me is that can't they hear an American accent in Italian? I can hear Italian accents in English a mile away. Literally, I used to be the creepiest Italian stalker ever. If I heard even the slightest infliction that suggested English spoken by a native Italian you can bet I would race over there and start chortling away happily. It's a lose-lose situation alot of the times though because I've heard stories of foreigners at the Questura who have been belittled for not speaking Italian or speaking it well but then I've heard stories where if you only speak English, you get the star treatment like American Express Front-of-the-line style.
In conclusion, I don't really know what exactly my sentiments are on this particular learned behavior of living in Italy and speaking English. It makes me a bit sad that it works. What's actually even more intriguing (and ironic) is at the beginning of my year here, I had an angry moment about being 'forced' to speak English:
My Biggest Language-Related Pet Peeve: When Locals Switch to English
P.S. This rant may have made Italians sound awful and it's not true. They are extremely lovely people and I have met my share of kindness through the years. What I'm saying is more restricted to the area of customer service in general and even Italians will agree that it has no comparison to other Anglo-countries like the UK or America where 'sucking up' is part of the retail culture.
Ciao for now and if you liked this, you'll probably want to read these:
A Short Rant on Customer Service in Italy
Hardships of the Non-White Expat in Italy
The Most Important Thing I've Learned After Living in Italy for 4 Months
The Ugly Side of Italy
Or pretty much just read the Archives under "Expat Life".
I woke up this morning mentally preparing myself for laundry day ( so much more of a hassle in Italy due to the extra step of setting-up the wet, wrinkly clothes to air dry, don't underestimate your dryers people). It was going to be a normal day. But then I read my e-mail and all of a sudden, one of my lifelong dreams came true:
I found out that I was chosen as a contributing author for an anthology of expat stories curated by Canadian expat legend, Lisa Webb, to be titled "Once Upon an Expat" and scheduled for publication this summer!
I know I sound like a broken record repeating the same childhood aspiration story, but I really, truly always wanted to be a painter-writer. Read this post from 2014, it will confirm I'm not delusional:
" If everything had been up to me, I would have been a painter-slash-writer. I love to create, I think it is an innate need that exists in all of us. It amazes me that a blank canvas, with purposefully placed strokes of color, can become something wonderful."
The same can be said about the written word, it's akin to a visual art with a perfect composition consisting of carefully chosen combinations of letters. Needless to say, this is an absolute DREAM for me and just so soulfully satisfying to see three of my favorite things come together (writing, wine, and Italy) to make it a reality. Perhaps you are wondering why the wine (I'll have you know this is a ludicrous question and you should be ashamed)...because I write with wine, that's why.
To stay updated with the book and the release, as well as to meet all the authors, check out Canadian Expat Mom (click to see the book cover release) or search her page on Facebook. I'll of course post anything new or interesting on the blog and my Facebook page as well. I post neat things all the time, including the Daily Dolce photo, so you should follow if you aren't already. MUCH LOVE.
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