Venice - June 24, 2005

I'm here, and had no problem, except my luggage is VERY heavy after a block of lugging it. As I had expected, my hip pain was gone by the time I got here. This weekend I am babysitting Christina's cat while she is in Trieste with family. The cat is very old and blind, has a urinary problem, so has special food for that. Hope the cat is still alive when she returns Sunday evening!

Yesterday, 5 of us went to Valerie's apartment for a nice salad lunch. She is one of the students and has bought a tiny "flat" here in Castello. She is English and owns a house and a flat in England that she rents out, plus this one in Venice. She owns/lives in a very old house in the Cotswolds and she has a business of rentals.

I'm on the free computer at school - for a half hour. We have to sign up a time to use it.

The class is interesting. the 2 teachers don't speak anything but Italian in class, and starting next week, we can't say any English.

ps: On my long flight I was in the middle of 3 people.