as is her way, my friend [i like to call her an american curmudgeon abroad] points out the obvious in a way that makes it more obvious [she is a scientist after all]. and then we laugh.
we were waiting for a bus from certosa di pavia [beautiful! but out of the way. definitely worth a visit if you're ever in milan], trying to catch some shade in the heat. i started going over the letters that i have left in the alphabet - u, v, t, z, k, n...i... to which my friend begins listing italian words that start with these letters. it dawned on me that this is an alphabet, implying a discursive landscape. my friend assumed that i was doing an alphabet in italian, whereas i had approached this thing spatially, experientially but not necessarily linguistically.
so i thought it was about time i supplied some vocabulary.
urbano - adj. translates to urban.
zanzara - noun. translates to mosquito.
milano รจ piena di zanzare in estate, so make sure you buy some bug repellant. i really like the sc johnson stuff i found over here: autan. it smells great and isn't sticky.
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