Between Church, cooking shows, and Italian MTV, I should have the vocabulary appropriate to converse with 70 year old women and 13 year old girls-lots of options for friendships in those ranges.
The great thing about learning Italian from cooking shows is then applying it. The good thing about MTV.it is dancing while cooking. And the good thing about church is you already know it, seriously, even the rhythms of the Italian language change and become familiar to a Catholic ear. I've also been blessed with a good singing ear, after hearing the phrase once, I'm faking it well by the second refrain and Alleluia is the same around the world. I look and sound like I belong, until it's time to recite the Lord's Prayer, and I'm lost again.
But I came for the entertainment and to see the cathedral, not really the participation. I don't mean to offend my religious believing friends, but church is great theater. The scenery, the characters (surprised to see altar girls) the music, the familiar script, and all in Italian it feels extra extraordinary.
E con il tuo spirito.
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becca, enjoy your comments on living and loving the italian (way) they ask for that word in crossword puzzles (iter). learning italian from cooking shows,mtv, and the Catholic Mass certainly is an existential way to do it. i did wince, however, when you said your presence in the Duomo was for entertainment not participation. i do agree that the Mass ritual is "Theatre" or more precisely "Sacred Theatre" where all who are present are the actors. what is being acted out is their desire to fully understand and live out what it means to be truly human, truly christain, whichever, they"re one and the same. So your presence was a "participation" you affirmed their quest. you did not have to know the language, holding hands @ the Our Father would speak enough. so much for my Maddow Moment in reverse. look forward to see you soon and we can together mine the depths of the italian soul. your loving abba!!
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