parli piu lentamente (continued)

Today was like a dream…. except one in which I did a lot of physical labor (weeding, mostly). But I slept well last night and it felt great to work hard. Highlights:

--using aloe that Aldo picked to make two batches of the medicinal juice that he sells. I want to bring a bunch home with me, but you have to keep it at a certain temperature and I doubt I will be able to do that during this nomadic month of mine.

-- a bread baking lesson with Teresa!! Its like I am living in a really exaggerated Italian cooking show, without subtitles. Lots of lively gesturing, but I wouldn’t want to spend a week in a Sicilian woman’s kitchen without a lot of lively gesturing! :-)

-- reading on the porch, watching a thunder storm roll towards us this afternoon

If I wasn’t so excited to see Alessia and her family, it would be very hard to leave here.