Nana Biography

I mean, he has a Semitic look, he has a big nose, and I said, “I’m just, I just know." He said “So what? “  "But I’m trying to figure out why they’re isolating us," I said, because I don’t look Jewish, and so, in the ladies room everybody was nice to me, they don’t do anything special, but nobody ever asked me for a golf game. To come out during the week. And then Italy, I had I was invited all the time to play golf. It was sort of a courtesy. And when somebody’s in our club, you know, and they’re new, people respond, and invite them, and when you have somebody from another country. So if you never figured out, and we’ve never felt there.

It must not have been a great sabbatical.

It was a great sabbatical because it was an experience. And you know, the food, the town was interesting, there were constant musical concerts, we could go do something almost every night. There were movies in English there, as I say, Jon and I like to be alone together. You know, we like to shop together, we like to sightsee together, so it was. I see more of him when we travel, because when we come home, I never see him. It’s true, our life at home, we don’t have that time together. So maybe that’s another reason why I like to travel, I cherish it.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense.

Oh, it was just terrific. And we took a lot of side trips, well you know, we did a lot of sad ones and good ones. We went to see some of the internment camps, which after seeing holocaust, holocaust was tamed. And, I went to a language school there Berlitz and it was lots of fun because I met outsiders that weren’t German. I was in a Berlitz class with three people from Africa, one from Turkey, and one from Iceland.

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