NEXT INSTALMENT

Hello readers:

This blog is enormous - almost five hundred pages of a book.  So I'm going to make the Venice blog a separate one, starting from this week.   The new blog address is very similar to this one so you won't forget it ...

www.travellingbead2.blogspot.com

Please join up there to follow me.  Make it easy for yourself - there's a "follow by email" link which means each time I post you'll get an email automatically.  Then if you want to post comments, that's easy too.  For all those who have wanted to post comments but haven't for some reason been able to, just send me an email as usual and I'll post the comment for you.

So before we both switch a catchup:  I arrive 1st September in Venice. My apartment is all set to receive me!  Sylvia and Giorgio are excited about my coming and said they don't know why I am bothering to go to language school because judging by my emails to them, my Italian is excellent.  The secret is that I have used Google translate!  So University starts on 6th September.  Five days a week, and a cultural activity every day to facilitate the process.

I'm also learning at home with a fantastic free program I downloaded from the internet, with advanced upgrade for a fee,  called BYKI. I'm learning repetitively like a child learns a language and somehow it's sticking in my long term memory.   Instead of learning one to ten and Monday to Saturday in order, so you have to mumble through until you get the word you want, everything is jumbled, and then in the middle the program throws in a rogue word like il scarafaggio.   So far it's my favourite word. It means cockroach.  Hope there aren't too many in Venice!

DON'T FORGET!!!!

http://www.travellingbead2.blogspot.com