Perspective:
"You have to learn another way to deal with things"
-E.N.

Imagine a very stressful moment in your life... got it? Now times it by ten, twenty...ummmm....add this visual...signs. signs with pictures. and sometimes with text in a language you don't understand. wait. add a voice...the voice is telling you in english to forget everything you've learned in your life thus far...

Instead of your standard 1 + 1 = 2...
think more along the lines of
-1 + 3 = 2
or
1.5 + 0.5 = 2
orrrrrr
2 x 1 = 2
and/orrrrrrrrrrr
the square root of 4 = 2

got it?

Think, Alice in Wonderland. yes, Alice...you are Alice and you don't know what the crap is going on. but, you go with it.

This is my attempt to describe to you how I felt saturday while driving in Rome, for the first time, under the direction of Enrico. Of course, it pales in comparison to the reality that was.
By the time we got out of the car in central Rome, the back of my shirt was covered in sweat. sexy. ummm. who cares...We were alive. I was triumphant. still confused. ever suffered from vertigo? I imagine the feeling was similar.

Some more detail? Indeed.

As I was zooming along the street that runs parallel to the river Tevere in Rome, I nearly clip a vehicle...the reason? I tried to switch lanes, with my signal. Enrico explains to me (and I paraphrase):

"Kate, you cannot switch a full lane in Italy, much less in Rome. You must think of the street as divided in quarter lanes. As for your signal...you are only confusing them...if you don't go like your signal shows, they won't know what you are trying to do...just GO. They will stop or react if you are confident. Prepotente. Now, get into the 'left', pass in the middle up there and DO NOT USE FIRST GEAR again until we leave Rome. OH, and show no fear."

Now, I wonder if you are thinking the same thing I am still thinking...
"QUARTER LANES?" (as a reference, please see, Indian Masters of lane division: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM)
!£%/ ()& %$%°ç@@ %£/@!!!

Driving in Rome is not for the faint of heart. If you are a passenger in a car in Rome and you wear a pacemaker, you must also wear a blindfold. Got it?
Pacemaker = Blindfold
Weak bladder = Blindfold
Pregnant = Blindfold
Nervous = Blindfold

What the crap, you might even drive better with a Blindfold...

PERSPECTIVE
Main Entry: 1 per·spec·tive
Pronunciation: \pər-ˈspek-tiv\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English perspectyf, from Medieval Latin perspectivum, from neuter of perspectivus of sight, optical, from Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere to look through, see clearly, from per- through + specere to look — more at per-, spy
Date: 14th century
archaic : an optical glass (as a telescope)