What is wrong with this weather

You can always be a little bit surprised about the things that people will bring on a holiday. Some bring toilet paper, other bring food. My danish friends seems to bring the weather. A good friend has been here for twice during the last couple of months, both periods were very special, in the amount of hours it rained - its pretty hard to convince him that there weather is good, because to him, it rains in Rome like in London.

This weekend we had a small family visiting, and for the first time since I was home in Denmark I experience subzero degrees. Okay only during the night, but seriously IT IS COLD, when you are out of practice. also my friends had some a few problems, cause I had told them that it was warmer, so they were not completely prepared for the weather (apparently the danish weather takes up too much space in their suitcases).



Even if the weather was cold, it was sunny, so it was nice to to go for lunch at the beach, even if the side of the shadow side of the body got pretty cold, it was still a lunch sitting outside, listening to the sounds of the sea.

And of course you cant come to Rome without a walk in the historical center.



Besides the fact that I am very happy to have friends visiting. It was also a nice weekend, in many other ways. For me it seemed like a milestone was passed, because I realized that when our guests wanted to ask something in a shop or elsewhere, I could easily ask the questions and help my friends. So all those Italian lessons I have had in January has really payed of - as I probably have mentioned before, its hard to measure my knowledge of the Italian language, when all I have to measure against is Italians. And they have a natural head start to me. But its seems I am really getting better, and that feels cool.

All in all I think this first year has passed as I expected, in sense of stress, and hardness. I wasn't as fast as I had hoped to learn the language, but I'm getting there slowly. Here in Italy, people who just got their drivers license have to put a big piece of paper in the rear window with a big P on. For me it seems that it is about time that I take the P out of my read window, because it seems I am almost ready for people to stop taking special care of me. Even though I am sure that as soon as I have posted this blog, somebody or something will come rushing to show me that I am not so ready after all, but then I will have something to blog about next week too.

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Se qualcuno leggere queste non sei troppo duro con me :), anche il Vittoriano ha bisogno un po' di assistenza a volte.