As I have said, I am sick and it hurts pretty bad... I was talking to Antonio yesterday and he goes "magari hai parotite"... translation... "Maybe you have THE MUMPS"!!!! I looked at him and go... "are you crazy? People don't get mumps... have you ever had the mumps?" he responded that he had.... WHAT!?!?!?! I thought no one got the mumps, at least I had never heard of anyone getting them! Apparently he had them when he was a kid, I asked if he had ever gotten the vaccine, he said he did, but that he got the mumps anyway.... I thought it was eradicated or something, but I guess not. Apparently people get it often out here!
The other day I was passing by a kindergarten type school and there was a sign letting people know that a few days ago a child was diagnosed with "Scarlattina.. of course I come home to look up what it is..... SCARLET FEVER... The only person i have ever heard of getting Scarlett fever was Gilbert Blythe on Anne of Green Gables and that was because he was a doctor and it was the 1800's.... but I've never known a "real" person to get Scarlet fever.....
Finally, as I was watching MTV today I couldn't help but realize how special Italy is when I saw a commercial for the "Say not to the Mafia" day that they are holding..... These are definitely things I never knew existed... of course I knew the Mafia existed... but Anti-Mafia days... it's crazy... Only in Italy!!!!
