Liz is not a best traveler in the world. She is bad
or lazy at researching a place before travel. She is usually end up with
spending a lot of time standing in the middle of the train station feeling
confused, or dropping way too much money on hotels because she don't know
better. Liz also has a shortage of personal coolness, which can be trouble her
in travel. She has never learned how to arrange her face into that blank
expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in
dangerous, foreign place. When she is excited or nervous, she looked excited
and nervous. Liz’s face is transparent transmitter of every thought. But still
traveling is the great true love of her life. And she also has her own set of
survival techniques, that she’s patient, she is a fearless eater. And she also
has one talents, she can make friends with anybody.
First, Liz must settle into school, she came here
to study Italian. Her classes begin today at the Leonardo da Vinci Academy of
Language Studies, where she will be studying Italian five days a week, four
hours a day. She has to take a test on the first day at Leonardo da Vinci, in
order to be placed in the proper level of Italian class for her abilities. Liz
chose to take level two, but when she takes the test, it’s quiet hard for her.
But finally she can be in level two. Classes begin in the afternoon. She has
realized that level two is really impossibly hard. The teachers, is going way
too fast, skipping over whole chapters of the textbook. Just as soon as the break
comes, she ran out of that classroom and scurry all the way over to the
administration, then she beg in very clear English if they could please move
her down to level one class.
Depression and Loneliness track Liz down after
about ten days in Italy. They come upon Liz all silent and menacing, depression
on her left, and loneliness on her right. She’s hoping to shake them, but they
keep following her, these two groups. Liz had stopped taking her medication
only a few days earlier. She never wanted to be on the medication in the first
place, she was fought taking it for so long, mainly because of her stress, and
depression about her life. She tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. But
finally Liz has to go to see the psychiatrist doctor. Then he put her on a few
different drugs. And now Liz could feel an extra inch of daylight opening in
her mind, she also can finally sleep at night. But still, she never relaxed
into taking those drugs. She doesn’t want her entire life to be depends on
those drugs. And now she is in Rome, loneliness and depression come to attack
her again. But this time she decided to let herself off the hook from worrying
with herself to write in paper. She wants to speak with god. Then she started
to write it, and it’s helped her a lot.
Liz needed to make some friends, and now she has a
nice assortment of them. She knew two Elizabeths in Rome now, both are
American, and both are writers. Then Giovanni and Dario, her Tandem Language
Exchange fantasy twins. She also become friends with a cool couple named Maria
and Giulio, he is the one who taught Liz Italian, and Liz also taught him back
English. Liz’s parents have a small farm, and her sister and Liz grew up
working. Liz and her sister taught to be dependable. Americans work harder and
longer and more stressful hours than anyone in the world today. Americas don’t
really know how to do nothing. But Italian is not like American. The wonderful Italian
expression: the art of making something out of nothing. Liz come to Italy to
define what is pleasure is. The amount of pleasure this eating and speaking
brought to her was inestimable. Liz love Italy.
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