Zanzariere

The mosquitos are back, sneaky little suckers. First mosquito of the year and I've got seven bites on one leg.

So. much. fun.

I'd kind of forgotten about them since last year. And does our house have any zanzariere (window screens)? Magari!

In other news, apparently Inter and Barcelona are playing an important game now. I am confused about who I am meant to support: I promised a student that I'd root for Milan, but they are not playing. So do you root for Inter because Italy bands together for such occasions, or is the rivalry between Milan and Inter strong enough that you actually just go ahead and root for a whole other country? I feel that this is plausible, because the other day I brought up soccer with a class of four year olds, and they actually came to blows over it. (Te sei Juventino? Ma che schifo! yelled one little Interista before whacking his compatriot on the shoulder.) So apparently the inter-team within-Italy rivalry is quite... engaging.

There is a whole group of Italians in my kitchen, though, and they are getting quite agitated, whatever it is that's going on, and also someone is shouting at the top of their lungs in the piazza...

Huh.