Day 1 as a 'dancer'

Well today was a good start to the Italian life...slept in had some nice fruit and my favorite espresso in the entire world.  I'm here in a small town a little south of Bari called Castellana Grotte. It is so nice and flat, surround by tons of olive orchards and grapes. I'll have to go exploring further into the nearby ag.   We were helping to get all of the welcome stuff ready for dancers that come Sunday. Jenna has been doing this program, World Dance Movement, for 7 years now. So she's friends with everyone here and has been wonderful about introducing me. I felt like my degree in Italian really paid off today. I wrote a lot of emails and filled out forms all in Italian and I'm not tired and no one second guessed my Italian. Hooray! Such a step up from the last time I was in this country. :). Anyways, tonight we are being taken out by some local Italians that work here. Should be fun!
We shall see if I become a dancer, they said I could sit in on classes if I wanted since I'm translating and helping out. So happy to be here with my Jenna bear.
Xxx
Al

My first meal back in Italy. Yummmyyyy