MEMORY -
It was a hot day in Florida. Uncle Pete and I had just spent an entire day at Disney. Before getting to the park's exit, we decided to take a seat and do some people watching. A few weeks prior, I was learning some Italian from Pete and decided to start practicing aloud as tourists walked past. In Italian, I began reciting the same sentence over and over " Why do you want me to speak Italian?" I stood up to stretch my legs and kept reciting the Italian influenced sentence. Finally, a tall man walked up to me and began speaking to me in Italian!!!! I was mortified! Pete jumped into the conversation and in Italian said " She is just practicing. She doesn't know much, but she's beautiful" The man shook his head walking away leaving Pete and I laughing hysterically. Pete warned me " Jenny, you might not want to practice so loud, you never know who might respond" I never did ask him what the man was telling me, but maybe it's best I didn't know!
APPLICATION -
Tonight I was hanging with some girlfriends. One of them spoke beautiful fluent Italian. I couldn't help myself but ask her to teach me a few words. I then told her about my little incident at Disney. We all shared a good laugh as our husbands hung on the side lines pretending not to know us.
REFLECTION -
Speak Italian only when spoken too!!!
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