Yesterday was not only Carnevale/Mardi Gras, but also Women's appreciation day. or women's day. or soemthing to that effect. At first I thought it was just an italian combination of mother's day and valentine's day and all other womany days. But it is apparently a world wide event raising awareness about gender inequality. Here in florence, it was a big deal, much more so than carnevale (which was more like halloween, where little kids dressed up as princesses and spiderman and so on, but that was it- florentine's may think they are too cool for actually having fun and celebrating things).
Yesterday morning while i was out i saw that everyone had these bright yellow little puff ball flowers, and decided to buy some for R. When i arrived at the apartment i gave them to her, yelling "HAPPY CARNEVALE!" The flowers are called mimosas, and after googling mimosas i amended my proclomation to "HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!" These flowers were all over town yesterday for women's day. I'm not sure what the connection is. The flowers looked like this:
yeah it was international women's day. i'm not sure why i know this. the flowers are so pretty! your apartment looks nice.
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