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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Vincenzo

Well, believe it or not but our new hostel in Naples is not at all a hostel. In fact it is a three star hotel with a breakfast room and a bar and everything. Our room is awesome and clean and more then we could have asked for considering we are paying sixty a night for a hotel that should be one-fifty. Anyway, this isn’t really the point if you can tell from the name of the post. After we finished dinner last night we were hanging out around the hotel and got into a conversation with the receptionist behind the counter. A sixty-nine year old man who has been working in hotels for something like twenty years. Again, this is not the point. We were talking to him about his life as a kid and how he traveled around the US. He was talking about how he was in a choir that traveled from the east to the west coast of the United States when he was sixteen. He said that it was some of the most exciting times of his life and that he remembers them as if they were yesterday. He also studied at a conservatorium at Berklee, and spent most of his young life refining his voice for opera. Anyway, while traveling around the country singing in his choir he made a appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. I just thought that this conversation should be shared and it was pretty cool to hear him speak of all this. How often do we meet receptionists who speak four languages, survived World War II and was on the Ed Sullivan show. Just more things in life that are amazing… Debbies turn.

posted by michael at 11:22 am  

2 Comments »

  1. I have to confess, Matt, You do, after all, have a lot of your father’s genes.

    Comment by Mother K — June 17, 2006 @ 11:49 am

  2. Yea i know…. kinda unfortunate right? lol, well it is interesting that we all seem to be posting at the same time, and while i do feel love and connected to our real universe at the moment, i think we are going to go get an early dinner. While you guys should be eating lunch. Anyway, again, love from us

    Comment by Matthew — June 17, 2006 @ 11:53 am

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