come se dice come se dice?

Today my co-worker asked me this….how do you say how do you say? I thought that was pretty funny. I also made chocolate chip cookies for everyone at work for having so much patience with me. Danielle said that I shouldnt worry myself with that, but I still do. I just think its important that they know how much I appreciate working in the studio with them. The chocolate ship cookies were quite a hit. I also found a list of Art words, in English and Italian. I made a point to memorize them all today, and I used almost everyone of them. We were re-lining a painting, and they told me to get the Punti Rame, copper staples, and I knew!!! I was super excited about that, and they were pretty surprised that I knew what they were talking about. Also Danielle was looking at them, and trying to pronounce everyone in English, its funny how Italians cant say an R without rolling it, and how Americans have a really hard time rolling their R’s. I feel like the two languages were never meant to be compatible. Today we also made Pasta Fiorentina, it smells really bad, and is SUPER labor intensive. It took about 3 hours to complete, and a lot of stirring. I kinda liked it, and the smell though.

I’ve continued working on my wooden man statue, I dont know when I will every finish with him. But I have gotten so much better with leveling plaster. It is a long process mainly because I keep making mistakes and then have to re-apply plaster and level it again. But Im getting better, so Im excited about that!!

Yesterday I went into one of the Medici Chapels. It was really beautiful. I made a small conversation with the door tendant, who wants to learn english. He owns a touring company, and talked to me about working for it. I hope that works out. Ive been trying to find small day jobs on the weekends to make some extra cash….I am going through so much here! I’ve applied to about 3 jobs, and havent heard back from them. I think it might be because my resume is in English, I should probably change that.

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