Irene, Kika, Yvonne..back to my best friends!

After 3 months, again in Italy. My mother is fine, even though she always forgot to take her medicines regularly...please, help me to find a way to remind the exact time she needs to take them...even the alarm does not work in her mind!

I went to a party with Ire, Yve, Sasà et al. It was a funny situation: sausage, steak, wine, beer, pizzette, focaccine with onion, gin lemon, and people dancing Capoeira. The final hit to my "wandering mind" was listening Diana Krall (live in Paris, or Live in Paradise as Yvonne said!) with a big moon over me.

Tomorrow morning I need to finish reading an interesting paper for my next challenge...the asymmetry of reporting survey data.
Irene would like to let me see our mediterranean sea before leaving, so I should be able to study tomorrow morning....geez....so easy to say...so hard to realize!

Oh, I forgot!..Today I started my first piano lesson with my sister, "trying" to play Mozart...too short your fingers, Kika!! But I'll work harder!

Cima raggiunta..!

Fantastic experience in Vancouver..my presentation was very good, I'm pretty satisfied, as rarely happens to me, kika...the "wet little bird"...!

I'm really grateful to my tutor here at MIT for the patience he had with me and for his useful and constant suggestions.
And now..I really need to have a break, even though I feel so energized, so excited by all the presentations I've seen and by all the people I met.

Besides attending the conference, I went hiking on Saturday with Bruce and Antonio. A very long but "rejuvenating" walk across Stanley Park (although I got a cold there!).
Then we went back to Downtown to get a Gelato, then we moved for satisfying our 7.5 level of hunger, without knowing that an "extreme weird dinner" at a restaurant called Diavolo was waiting for us..! 50% of the food was not available...it was semi-empty with the exception of 5-6 women celebrating the "baby shower" (or baby washing...ahahah!).

And finally we spent the last hours of our trip in Vancouver attending a nice Jazz concert where I "earned" some compliments from an odd, old man ("You have a wonderful smile, miss..!). "At least the smile..I should have replied..!!

Vancouver has a great percentage of Asian and Caucasian people. At the airport the second language they used for calling passengers was Japanese!!!
The only awful aspect of Vancouver were those glass buildings, in perfect 70s style...brr..