“Where did you buy your bag?” An African woman asked me and pointed at my tote I am carrying while my friend and I where discussing about curtain at the open market in Ravenna. I turned my back and said: “Why”? “It’s very nice and I want to buy also” she replied. “My husband bought in Hong Kong for me” I just wanted this totally strange woman to leave me alone so I picked up any answer. “Oh, grazie…” and she left….Well at least se said thank you. It was at the “kumpul-kumpul” last month when I first saw this couple, Italian man and Indonesian woman who live not far from Cesena. After little “basa-basi” here and there we started to have little conversation, actually this woman asked me how old I was, where I met my husband, did he convert…….As I was more concentrated of watching Benny running up and down in the place where he shouldn’t run so I just answered whatever she asked sambil lalu….to be polite. At one point, the husband approached me and asked why we spoke English to our son and not Italian. So I explained that my husband is not Italian even if he looks Italian! Then…he poured my husband with questions…more questions….what did he do here, which company he is working with, which university he went…bla…bla.. After few days, I heard that his wife was asking to some girls she just met on kumpul – kumpul about the size of the …of their husbands. One of the girls was the one who went to the market with me In Ravenna. Some questions are really not ethical to ask especially to somebody that just met or some body that you don’t know in person. I should have told that African woman and that Indonesian woman to bugger off…….

Kemaren, seperti biasanya aku jemput Ben agak telat dan sampai di Peter Pan jam 16.30 lebih. Sebenarnya aku lebih senang kalau datang agak awal karena belum banyak ibu-ibu yang mau jemput jadi bisa enak ngobrol sama educatrice tentang aktivitas di daycare. Begitu aku masuk di ruang koridor menuju ruang ganti sepatu, Chiara, educatrice yg menangani Ben langsung bilang: " Ben ha morso" Karena aku gak tahu artinya morso jadi aku balik tanya: " morso?" Chiara menjelaskan asal muasal adany gigitan di pipi. Ben dan Mathia rebutan mainan dan rupanya mainan itu bukan mainan dari day care, tapi kepunyaan Mathia yang di bawa dari rumah. Makanya Mathia sampai mengeluarkan jurus gigit menggigit.... Chiara minta maaf karena dia dan koleganya telat melerai dan sudah terjadi acara gigit menggigit.....Poor Ben.. Dalam perjalanan pulang aku langsung mampir ke apotik dekat rumah, cari krim atau apa saja untuk mencegah infeksi karena gigitan. Untung Ben sudah di vaksin anti tetanus in case Mathia ini gigitannya beracun...........