Dear Fabrizio,

I you don't mind me asking, where in Italy do you live?  I am one half Italian.  My maternal great grandparents came from  (I think it is Salerno or Palermo).  One is on the island of Sicily and the other is pretty much around the south west part of Italy.  I always get those two names mixed up.

 

Forgive me.  Let me properly introduce myself.  My name is Mark Smith.  My mothers maiden name was Esposito.  I just joined norse_course as well as Mead Hall.  So, I have Italian as well as German blood in me.  German is from my father's side of the family.  I believe that the more specific origin would be Pennsylvania Dutch.  Dutch not being as in the Dutch, but a term which was coined for those germans who helped fight for the british cause in the revolutionary war.  Anbd I guess the term just stuck.

 

But that's neither here nor there.  I just don't get much opportunity to say hello to a native Italian.  So greetings!  or Chow!

 

Peace,

 

Mark Smith