Before I get to Italy

Here's this:



It's just an ordinary, quiet morning here in Manosque. And I'm sitting in the cafe weeping over photos of people parading in the street in Seattle. I wish I were there.

In case you need another reason to love Barack

This is not Italy related at all, but I keep forgetting to post it. I showed my students a video of Barack Obama speaking (in New Hampshire in January) and they had to see how much of it they understood. After it was over, they were all happy, saying "Oh, we love him! We LOVE him!" I was like "Hey, that's great! Why do you love him so much?" They said "Well, for an American, he speaks very slowly."

Home (to France, that is) in two days...