Salada Mista

Italian for ‘mixed salad’. It always seems like a good idea to order one to accompany your meal – you know, vitamins and all, to balance out the carbs – but then, time and time again, you find yourself staring at a bowl of wilted lettuce and grated carrots (not the funny kind), once again begging everyone at the table to remind you not to order this next time. Hey, if you’re lucky, there might be a slice of tomato in there.

San Marco

Famous square and church or something in Venice. I’m actually not sure exactly what it is or why it is so famous, and I don’t really care enough to look it up. It’s not made out of glass or anything. Stay far, far away if you don’t like crowds.

Sarah Hornik

That would be yours truly, aka the lunatic who is still writing this thing.

Photo by Indi

Sarah’s Icy Cold Jar of Rejection

Another one of those ‘you had to be there’ moments, I guess.

Sarah’s Sense of Direction

“Uh, what? Where am I? Who are you? Is this Murano or Venice? Wait a minute - we’re still in Italy, right? What do you mean we have walked by this canal every single day for the past two weeks? I swear I have never seen this place before. Wait – where are we going? What did you say your name was again?”

Scorpion

On one of my first nights in Murano, I had a really bad nightmare. There was lots of weird shit going on, something having to do with one of my brothers – but before that happened, there was a scorpion in our Murano apartment. The dream was so vivid, that when I woke up in the morning I had to call my mother to make sure my brother was okay. He was fine, but my mother mentioned that both she and her sister had horrible nightmares that night as well.

As if that weren’t freaky enough – when we had lunch that afternoon, Di East told us that she had woke up that morning to discover A REAL, LIVE SCORPION in her apartment.

This totally blows my mind. I mean, it’s not like I dreamt about a dog and then woke up and saw someone walking a dog. It’s a scorpion. A FREAKING SCORPION. What are the odds?

Someone explain this to me, PLEASE.

Sharon Tracey

Resident comedian and trusty teacher’s assistant. Everyone should have a Sharon in their life. I mean it.
(See Aussies.)
http://www.beadsmart.com.au

Shorty

See ‘Quinton’.

Spoon

Surprisingly enough, a utensil Italians do NOT use for eating long pasta. If you want one, you have to ask for it.

Susanne

1. Cool Swede gal who SPEAKS PERFECT ENGLISH and makes adorable animal beads and many others.
   
   
2. Excellent partner for sharing my vices. ;-)