Hello From The Other Side

The other side is Italy in case you didn't get my awesome Adele reference. Anyways I'm baaaccckkkkkkk! It's 6am over here and this clearly means I have jet-lag because this is an un-godly hour. I officially arrived on Friday afternoon and made the absolute worst 'brutta figura' at the airport, it was really quite embarrassing. As I'm on a mission impossible of trying to migrate my entire Canadian book collection overseas, I was travelling with two large suitcases, my rolling carry-on, and a backpack. In the past, at Linate airport in Milan, the little luggage carts were free. Now they cost 2 Euros! So in an effort to not fork over money for a stupid cart just to go literally 10 meters, I resolved to a stacking method which basically saw me shuffling like a royal idiot in high heels (my usual airport footwear), pushing these bloody bags at at snail's pace. What's worse is customs tried to stop me but then seemed to realize I was just a hot mess and not actually smuggling anything into the country. As soon as I made it through the sliding doors, my stacked contraption toppled over, right in front of all the people waiting for loved ones with the loudest 'thud' at which point everyone gave me the pity stare. Nothing is really worse than the pity stare. Changing subject, the photographs I've posted are from Saturday when we went skiing (well, snowboarding) which was clearly the best activity choice for someone who just arrived the day before. Needless to say, I was absolutely dead to this world afterwards. I had wanted to watch the finale of San Remo that evening and never even got to the point of turning the television on. 

+ make sure to check out my newest project, The Jasmine & Jhumpa project where I challenge myself to a year of writing in Italian (inspired by Italian-as-a-third-language author Jhumpa Lahiri of "In Altre Parole"). Visit it here: ​http://thejasmineandjhumpaproject.weebly.com/