SO this is spring in Italy. I forgot how beautiful it can be…. and the irises aren’t even blooming yet! I can’t wait for that it is wonderful to me that my favorite flower just happens to be THE flower of Florence. The trees are all timidly letting their leaves out and a soft green is everywhere.
Last weekend we finished digging in the garden between parties (there was a April Fool’s part for our students on Friday… did you know that for April Fool’s in Italy you put paper fish on peoples backs?…and then a baby shower at our house on Saturday night…Phoebe is 1 month old…and Natilynn is 3 months old…So many babies there are 2 more coming in the summer). It was wonderful to dig… the ground is very nice indeed and the worms are absolutely ginormous! the dirt squishing in my toes was the most gushy and fantastic feeling… though it did make my feet kind of cold. I just don’t know what to say I guess right now…. I’m just excited by how God made the world, watching seeds grow and everyday seeing them become larger and more fully what they are. Frederico the son of one of my students wants to have a garden too so I think he is going to come over to help and I hope some of the seedlings are ready in time for him to plant them. I’ve been thinking that there really is nothing more human than wanting to make or grow things…like baskets or letters or dinner or sweets or friends or babies or music. I think that might be part of God that we actually got when he made us in his own image.
full, full, full…. life is very full right now, two new students this week and I am just now also full of the idea that I will be on the beach in Albania for 3 weeks this summer and that means bathing suits. Which really does seem less than the point (which it is since it will be at a summer camp where there aren’t even showers… but somehow I still care a little)). We just found out that the summer camp will be studying Empty Baskets a book about spiritual worship through stewardship, which I haven’t read but have now ordered… hope it gets here in the mail soon. Anyway… very full but it always seems to me that when my life is fullest I still get lots of time to come up with other things I would like to do.
Students today… 2 the twins … Salvatore and Donato… if they aren’t late getting here because of soccer practice…they are eleven right now and in prima media which of course means they are completely booked like any self respecting eleven year old right now. Soccer practice and French lessons and then the English tutor (that’s me!) feel kind of sorry for them so we mostly play games since I figure they are learning grammar in school so they really just need to practice using what they learned with me. It’s cool though because the Mom is completely mystified by our presence (the Bible School … a group of ragazzi that think it is important enough to go across and ocean to teach people about the Bible). Ok enough for now should go eat something I think….. Rosa is in Puglia right now so have to fend for ourselves…which doesn’t mean we don’t eat well…just more often really … and not delicous Pugliese food!
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