People I'm meeting

Today I met Barbara, an older South African jew. She asked me if I knew where her hotel was, and I helped her find it. We then decided to have lunch together, and she went with me to one apartment to help me look, and because she was curious about local Italian life, not that I could show that terrifically. Turned out the bedroom for rent in the apartment had no windows, so her company helped the walk go by.

While talking with Barbara I went upstairs to her room for a few and met Fernanda, a Brazilian girl about my age who moved to Italy after vacationing here and falling in love with the country. She didn't speak any Italian then, and still doesn't speak English, so was very excited about my rudimentary Italian. She must see a lot of foreigners who don't even try to communicate with her. We're going to get together for dinner or something sometime soon.


Then there was Kelvis, a Jamacian fashion photographer who spends most of his time in Milan, who was trying to not only get me to rent his apartment but also ride his motorcycle 20 minutes away to help assist him in a photo shoot of something he was trying to do, as assistant photographer. We ended up taking photos of a crazy artist who looked like a leprechaun and who put on funny costumes. He complained that I was too timid to be a photography assistant, and I explained that this was the first time I had ever attempted a photo shoot and was on an unfamiliar camera. Oh well.