Every Monday and Tuesday we have a ritual for lunch. Tommaso, Manuel, Jun and I dine at Zoe, a restaurant about 50 meters from the studio. Our justification is that we need the strength during the week, so we start out well-nourished.
Today we were waiting for a table and our professor Manuel, who is a fan of calcio (soccer) pointed out three giocatori (players) dining. We know the players from Fiorentina often dine there and we've seen Marco Donadel before. Tommaso is our resident caricaturist and as we waited for a table to clear for us he grabbed a paper placemat and began drawing a caricature of the three of them: Riccardo Montolivo, Alessandro Gamberini and Massimo Gobbi. Tommaso finished the drawing as our plates arrived and handed it to Gobbi, who was really excited to receive it. As they left the restaurant they walked by our table and all three thanked Tommaso again. We enjoyed our pastas and salads and skipped the caffe as we take our after-lunch caffe in another bar with the other students. We walked up to the counter to pay and the barista told us that the players had already paid for our entire table! She told us they insisted and we didn't owe a penny. We thanked Tommaso for his talents and all four of us couldn't wait to share our story with the others.
Admittedly I'm for a different squadra (team) but today I feel like a Fiorentina (a fan of Fiorentina)! Grazie Viola!
1 comment:
Very cool! You run into celebrities wherever you go! Although, Tom Cruise did not buy us popcorn at the movie theater. ;-) To comment on your other blogs, your work is amazing!!! Hope to get to see some in person. Looking forward to seeing you soon! xoxoxoxo
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