...but Ecuadorians are maybe the nicest people I've ever encountered.
Milena, who is the au pair for this family during the spring, winter and fall months, has been showing me the ropes for the past week before she leaves on her holiday. She speaks Italian and Spanish... and I speak neither. We've been using Google Translate, but before we thought of it we actually could understand one another better than you would think.
Anyways, Milena, after about 48 hours of knowing me, asked me to come visit her home in Ecuador next June and told me we would go to the disco one night when she gets back in July. AND she is having her sisters (who I've literally never met) come pick me up on my first day off to show me around Monza and have dinner at their house. I wish I could do more for her than give her some short English lessons- we attempted One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish together. She is one of the sweetest people I've ever met.
Side note: I haven't heard any Italian music since I've been here. My window is above a stoplight on a street intersecting a main drag in Monza, and I keep my window open a lot. The cars outside that have their windows down keep playing Flo Rida and Coldplay and Rihanna. Giulia (the 13 year old daughter in the family) told me she doesn't like even one Italian song. She prefers Beyonce, Jesse McCartney, Shakira and -you guessed it- the Biebs. FEBBRE DI BIEBER!
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