Italian 5 week boot camp Part 2

I just decided casually to start
Italian 5 week boot camp again.
Last time, I can not say it was very successful.
So this time, I start with more relaxed attitude.

Unit 1, indefinite and definite Articles. Easy.
Italian time today: 1.5 hour

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StrengthFinder

I went to a bookstore to buy a Korean book.
But I felt no chemistry.
So I bought the one I had been curious but had not had.
"Now, discover your strength"
And I have tried the strength test.
Here is the result.

Strategic
Learner
Relator
Input
Intellection

"Learner" and "Input" are understandable.
That is why I am a language collector.
What startled me totally is
"Strategic"
I don't remember having answered such a question.

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Makilena

I was waiting a bus when I smelled something burned,
 which reminded me of my grand mother's house.
It was a small house made of wood.
 A bathroom was separated from the main house.
 There were a lot of knot holes on the wall of the bathroom.
My grandmother used to boil water for the bath by burning firewood.

 Japanese 薪 "Maki"

 Chinese 柴火　　"柴" in Japanese means somewhat thinner firewood

 Korean 장작

 English Firewood　

 Dutch brandhout　　brand = fire, hout = wood

 Africaans vuurmaakhout　vuur = fire, maak = make, hout = wood

 German Brennholz　　This looks like Dutch "brandhout".

 French bois de chauffage bois = wood, chauffage = hot

 Spanish lena

 Now, Maki (Japanse) + Lena (Spanish) = Makilena (Turkish)
although Makilena does not mean fire wood...

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Different ATM

From Linate airport to Milano central station,
I took what Japanese call "limousine," which is actually a shuttle bus.

Usually they sell bus tickets at a kiosk (tabacchi)
But a tabacchi in the airport closed already.

Conveniently, I found an automated ticket-vending machine.
But a man passing by told me that I had to buy a bus ticket directly
from the bus driver and he showed also me the bus to take.
So I went to the bus and offered 5 Euro to the driver.

 The driver did not receive my 5 Euro and explained something passionately.
I caught the word "ATM" and guesed that I had to buy a
ticket at the automated ticket-vending machine.
O.K.
I went back to the vending machine and bought a 5 Euro ticket.

When I came back to the bus with a ticket in my hand,
the driver smiled first But then he waggled his head.
He again explained something passionately to me, pointing a logo "ATM"
on his polo shirt.

I understood.

There are two bus companies running a shuttle bus between the airport and 

the central station,
The man worked for "ATM" but I had bought a ticket of the other company.

Oh Oh. 

OK. he said, and gave me a lift to the station.

Grazie mille !

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Brava!

I was shopping in a supermarket in Rome Termini station.
At a check out counter, I took my items from the basket and put them on a conveyor belt.
I tried to put my empty basket on the stack of empty baskets underneath the counter.
But I couldn't make it because the shape of my basket is different from the one on the top of the stack and there was not enough space.

So I just sorted out the stack of basket  re-stacked them, and put my basket on the top of it, successfully.
Done!

Then..

"Brava!"
A cute old woman waiting on the line behind me clapped her hands.
"Brava" is the feminine form of "Bravo."

It is nothing really... I thought for a moment.
But it made me flattered and happy.

"Grazie mille." (Thanks very much)

Oh I love this cheerfulness and friendliness of Italian people.

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