Day 11

Today I treated myself to an apple pastry on the way to work because I knew I had a long day ahead of me.

I actually really enjoyed ticket sales J I got to talk to loads of people and everyone got really excited once they found out I was English.

The Italian’s somehow managed to understand me so it was all good!

Here are some of the phrases I had to learn

"Puo visitare la collezione permanente e l'esposizione temporanea d'Ileana Sonnabend"

"C'e una piantina - mappa del museo nel retto del biglietto"

Matteo (the guy who’s in charge of tickets) was a bit stressful to start with but then he calmed down once he started talking to me about English football. I told him I don’t like or watch football but that didn’t shut him up about it!

He kept on checking the scores and giving me updates on the Everton and Aston Villa match which was very very annoying.

He likes QPR so he said he’ll be watching the match on Monday.

I met a really lovely Scottish couple from John O groats who were obviously very happy that someone could finally understand what they were saying and wouldn’t leave me alone. Especially when they saw that my sername is Baxter.

They spoke to me for aaaaaaaaaages and I finally got rid of them but when I was on my break I heard someone shout ‘MOIRA BAXTER!’ across the courtyard at me (they had been asking me if I was any relation to this woman who I have no idea who she is). They spoke to me for the whole of my break but it turns out they are art buyers so it was very interesting! They had quite a few Lowry’s and Bacon’s and they were in Venice looking to buy more art.

They were a really sweet couple and they came to say goodbye to me J

OOoo yh and there was a FIRE!

It wasn’t really a big deal. Just that the ashtray outside the ticket office caught fire and one of the other interns was panicking like mad. She got really angry at us ticket sales people for just sitting there and laughing but she was running around stealing peoples water bottles and chucking them at the ashtray!

And that was my day! After work I just went home and collapsed and I’m soooo happy it’s now my weekend!