*ciao zia!

My sister left yesterday after staying with us since the beginning of December. She's off to Italy on Sunday for 8 months at a shoe design institute! While she was here we had lots of fun parlando italiano, stringing together as many frasi as we could [e bella la bambina? si, e molto bella e molto inteligente]. Mi piace. Anyway, she's going to keep up a blog [you have to, liz] while she's there. I can't wait to hear all about the experience - especially all the cibo italiano she gets to mangia - lucky.