Life is Beautiful and Pre-Italy

This post has dual implications. I just watched the movie, "Life is Beautiful," for the first time. Also, and very appropriately I am going to Italy for the first time tomorrow. Yes, I mean literally tomorrow night. First off I'd like to start with the movie. LIB may just be one of the best movies I've ever seen. It has everything: love, humor, family, violence, and really no bad language. The story is absolutely genius, never in my life would I be able to have the amount of optimism to convince a child that he was playing hide-and-seek for the entire holocaust. It's incredible. It's even better, because I rarely will agree to watch, much less enjoy foreign films. Not that I think they are bad, I just have a hard time getting over the language barrier. LIB does this with flying colors.

Bottomline: I recommend this movie for any and every person on earth.
Grade: 94

Secondly, I am going to Italy tomorrow. By far the place I've been looking forward to going to more than any other. I hope that it is all it's cracked up to be. I'm ready to see all these places that have more history than I've ever experienced, and a culture truly different than my own. Not to mention, I love Italian food. I'm not sure if I will document my journey via this blog or any other electronic media, but I will enjoy myself. I'll be back in a little over a week.

Andy