topics: pesto (food), Meucci Technical High School visit, Italian telecommunication monopoly, life in Genova, more rain; jump to dispatch

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At 6:00 PM May 28, 1998
Sunrise (local): 5:47 a.m. Sunset (local): 8:57 p.m.	Weather 60°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 0 mi / 0 km Cumulative Total 5262 mi / 8474 km	Lat: 44° 24' 19" N Lon: 8° 56' 43" E Elev: 0 ft / 0 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Genova, also known as Genoa
Where We're Staying: Hotel Barone
Places We Visited: Meucci Technical High School, Cathedral San Lorenzo, historical city center, Poterie Ceramica Mediterranean Tile Shop
Featured Site: Computer and Internet Lab at the Meucci Technical High School
Person of the Day: Giovanna Sassi, Gianni Berti, and Angelo Raveane
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: pasta al pesto; Breakfast: coffee; Lunch: pasta al pesto, salad, fish, beef stew; Dinner: pasta al pesto, salad, cheese, MANY olives, salami, focaccia; Olive count: 2190
Word of the Day: One of the fun things about meeting with students everywhere we go is that we can "plug in" to the youth lingo and get the best (but cleanest) slang there is to be found. In Genova, some of the young men with whom we spent the morning with taught us this , which we think basically means "What's up?", and the word "mugugno" which, when used in a longer sentence full of complaints (like this ) is kind of like a "woe is me" word that doesn't have a direct translation in English.
Tech Fact of the Day: telecommunications monopoly in Italy: Flat Count (Cumulative): 34; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 32


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