first day in roma.

i am now on my computer - it appears it is slower when plugged into the outlets here, so we're runnin on batt now.
below are excerpts from today's frantic jotting in my little notebook -

starting from the plane::

endless calm seas run into a mountain range fault line cauliflower clouds with flat tops through the breaks in the water see a road?
below and mountains below the real ones.
i do believe if i were to fall from this plane down through the sky into that white i would not end. my spirit could not vanish from a place like that. i would join the white and go on forever and ever.


(on driving, at which all italians are very skilled and by that i dont mean 'good' drivers in the sense an american would think so. americans could never drive in italia!)

they exist together very well. cars bus moto bike on foot all flow together like in ocean. no rules, no lanes, no honking.


the italians are very straight forward, but polite.

a smell like weisenberger mill at the river tivere (tiber)

everyone dressed so well and modern and cute.

a sense of ebb and flow, smell of pot in open air. ilaria and i took 'aparitivo' (which i interpreted as 'imperitivo' which obviously has a completely different meaning!) at a bar, with a little buffet and sat on a wall with our wine and food.

the gas smells different - it doesn't choke. i don't mind the smell.

things are simply working themselves out.

ilaria doesn't shave your armpits but does her legs - the opposite di io!

italia makes very cute boys.
opera singing and a film being shot at the bar where we took breakfast.


(for russ)
ilaria always french- inhales her hand-rolled cigarretes.

she said of the cars 'yes but sometimes they roll you like cigarettes in the street'


the following is my list of italian words and phrases i picked up and also asked for when ilaria and i were joined by three italian men who were very funny and polite.


si, pause, ma sti cazzi?

escusi - formal, escusa - di u.s.

come si dice _____ en spagnolo

inglese.

siamo en una bote de fero

non credo - i don't believe it
furbo - smart
ascoltare - listen io ascolto
cantante - pino daniels terra mia
io voglio tu voi lei vuole loro voglono
tu par la piano
buffo - divertente
tu hai - you have io ho
antonello pellegrino
sarah marie miller
cuanto anni hai =- how old
io ho 31 anni
trentuno
oggi yeri domani
a bi ci di e efe gi acai
figlia figlio
vecchio
se la meme
e le stesse cosa its the same thing
non importa! nevermind
io bisogno di
non piu - no mas
preocupato - worried
sempre






(and now ilaria and i are on our computers and she is alternately listening to opera and the doors)