Buongiorno Lessons

Before I leave for Prague I thought I should relay some important lessons I learned this week.

1. If people's expectations are really low of your ability, then even if you suck at something they think you are amazing: my violin lesson. I haven't played for almost 2 month can barely crank out a 3 octave g major yet my teacher (my age by the way), thought I didn't know how to play violin at all, so therefore I am a musical genius. I even got a call from my director who had arranged the lessons telling me that the director of the school had called him to say how good I was (really I am not good considering how long I have been playing)  The only impressive thing about the lesson was that I semi-understood what was going on even though we spoke all in Italian.

2. Italians use Do, Re, Mi etc. when talking about instrumental music. I may be wrong, but is that used much in U.S. besides choral music and music theory? I think it is kind of confusing but I'm working on it.

3. If you are trying to paint "light" reflections in hair, even if the hair is red, it is probably a bad sign if the color is reminiscent of macaroni and cheese (no further explanation needed)

4. If people are loading money onto your debit card from home, don't try to buy things at the exact moment. My credit card got rejected in the span of a half hour from many atms in Verona as well as the train station. I come home to find more money on my account.

4. (dealing with the above problem) British customer service people are the best! I am not sure what it was about the conversation, but I suddenly was not in a bad mood, maybe it was that she said "lovely" every other sentence or "we'll sort this problem out right away!" It was really a pleasure to talk to them (no joke)

I believe that is all the life lessons for this week, until Sunday, Ciao!