PRONTO! Antonia...

My effervescent Italian friend Antonia or in Chinese Andongni.

Antonia's a journalist / writer, she lives in Beijing and she and I met at Capital Normal University Beijing several years ago. We were both learning Chinese at the time. I'm rather envious... her Chinese is streets ahead of mine.

Today we chatted in Pacific Coffee Shop. Her mango drink tasted of vanilla rather a disappointment. Antonia was rather looking forward to her drink tasting of mango. Oh, well