My STORY
It all began one day when....
It all began one day when my boss for installing heating and air conditioners in new homes (back during the housing boom) laid me off for the winter!
I was a "back talking" 24 year old kid! Very good at what I did! I was doing 2.5 houses a week, when most of the other guys were only doing one!
My boss laid me off one winter to "teach me a lesson" and oh boy did he! I took the winter off and snowboarded up in Tahoe most of the time! Then I had an opportunity to go backpacking through Thailand for 6 weeks and Cambodia for one week! That changed my life!! When I got back home, it was time to get back to work. Even though I was good at what I did, I was not happy. So, I thought long and hard about what I could do that would make me happy! I always loved to cook and everyone always told me how good I was at it! I researched culinary schools and they were very expensive. I had never worked in a kitchen and wasn't 100% sure I would like it. I got a job at an Italian restaurant in town and LOVED it!! I enrolled in the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco! I was told in my first week in school that I would need to work in a restaurant for 3 months to complete my certificate and that they could help us do it abroad. Right then and there I said "I am going to Tuscany"! After my 1 year program and getting my certificate for culinary arts, I packed up my knives and came to Tuscany for 5 months. I met my now wife after the first month and that's when my story turned into our story, 13 years ago!!
AND MY STORY
It all began one day when....
I grow up in Tuscany in a house in the middle of nowhere. My parents were farmers and we were living with the family of my auncle: twelve of us , living and working together...even the cat! I was the youngest and i was in charge to collect the eggs in the morning , feeding them and the pigs...sometimes milk the goats. I have nice memory, I was a child but my sister, just 10 years older then me, has a different opinion! I was rised to be a housewife and when I was 6 years old, my mom and mu grama told me that I coudn't get merried if i don't know how to make PASTA!! but in my heart there was something different, something I couldn't understand but it was taking away from that world.
So against the wishes of my family,and payign by myself, I studied, and I was the first one graduated in the Highschool and University!!!
I was a really good studient in any subject expext languagues......but life has a path in front of you without you know and mine had English!!
Coincidence, a guy , Allen, an american, came from nowhere and offered me a job and thought me English...... in three months I was able to comunicate and that again ...Life....brought me that night to meet my future husband....and that first kiss we had, woke me up to my life....my future life!!!
