Happy Womens' Day!

Today is International Womens' Day, even though for some reason it is not celebrated in the United States, and I am enjoying spending the day in Italy. It seems to be a pretty popular holiday here, as even in the supermarket they give away flowers to all of the women. I think it is a great idea. It is always nice to feel special. The tradition here is to give women mimosa, which are yellow flowers.

Here are the arrangements I recieved: (one from Andrea, Luca, and also Manuela). I am really enjoying being a part of Italian life for an entire year and being able to live days like these just as all Italian women do.




PS. My parents left this morning, and we had an amazing week vacation. Over the next few posts I will try to recap the trip the best that I can. It was really sad leaving them for six months. It is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my family and it makes me sad to think about it, but I hope I won't have to do it again anytime soon. I love my life here and am so glad that they finally got to see and experience it with me. It will be so hard to leave here but I already miss my parents!

My mom and I did decide that a sign like this would only exist in a place where they celebrate Womens' Day:

It is a parking space reserved for pregnant women (they really seem to take care of their pregnant women here, of course that is until they get into the hospital and go back to 19th century childbirth conditions!)