Thursday, June 3, 2010

skills gained

-playing pool
-gutting fish
-pruning olive trees
-feeding animals
-collecting eggs
-fending off horny goats
-rolling cigarettes
-hitchhiking
-building volcanoes out of various materials
-speaking Italian
-speaking some Dutch
-drinking grappa for breakfast without grimacing
-how to braid a pony's tail
-driving tractors
-jumpstart a fiat
-corking and labelling wine by hand
-beer pong (unfortunately)
-slicing even tagliatelle
-cutting marble
-kill a chicken
-hunting wild asparagus
-carrying six bottles of wine at a time - three per hand
-making ricotta
-mowing lawns
-baking bread in woodfired oven
-using a forklift
-lighting bonfires
-serving meals to giant tables of hungry people
-cooking fresh artichokes
-the difference between pinzette and pancetta
-the words to "Can't Hurry Love" in Italian
-why the toilets have two flush buttons on them. I never knew why. Today I encountered a toilet that had the buttons labeled, 1 and 2. So now I know unless you want to advertise, just pick a button and be consistent.

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