...and finally here we go.... I'll try to conclude later this adventure part of my blog with a post better than this one whose goal is to let everybody know (who cares? you gonna say) that I'm back, after a long trip and no unexpected things happened. Apart from the nice retired guy sitted next to me on the fight Melbourne - Atlanta who was really talkative and, How you can imagine, I didn't understand almost a single word of what he said: I got the reason of this after asking the guy where he lived.... delaware: ahhh that one must have been the reason. Anyway, let me say his English was kind of akward to understand! For the rest il Teone did great: I made some joke with the really nice hostess (thank you for your help if you can hear me) who helped me to get my boarding passed at Atlanta Intl. Airport ( aka Hartsfield-Jackson). Oppositely, I'm not gonna thank the guy who charged my 25$ for my overweighted bag: 69 pound instead of 50.... come on! 25$ for 19 pounds exceeding is a robbery, but as I told that guy I didn't know how to do... so I silently paid!
The flight from ATL - to LND Gatwick was simply great: good food, good movies (I really liked "Night at the Museum"), nice hostesses even if with a little spot: they had such a strong British accent and after having been surrounded by Americans for 4 months I can clearly see how different the British accent is: actually I think is kind of funny 'cause when they speak they seem to have a big potato stuck into their mouth!
I know that nobody is gonna believe me: anyway I heard my first "after-4-month live Italian" while standing in the line for the security checks at gatwick airport ( and by the way thanks for nothing to the nasty lady that when I asked her if she could do something for me and some other Italian guys---since we were about to miss our flight---ans'ered: "what do you want me to do? I'm doing my job, I can't do anything"!
Before concluding this post, I would like to thank everyone in Florida who has helped me to improve my English: guess you guys did a good job... I'm proud of what my English looks like now: I know guys that there is still a lot of work to do on the spoken part but thank you anyway and I promise you I'll get my TOEFL right away or at least before starting forgetting things, which is gonna happen soon!
Anyway I really appreciate to be back in my country even though I already miss the US: but you can't imagine how beautful (and even weird) was when tonight I went to a restaurant and the waiter asked:"Ciao ragazzi, quanti siete?"... you don't believe me (probably you do only if at least once you have been abroad for more than 1 month without speaking and hearing Italian at all) but it sounded to me so weird: I think that the guy thought I was kinda insane because I got stuck looking at him and smiling with a wondered face!!!
Good Night!
5.01.2007
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