15 things you might not know about me

A weekend in Madrid alone with myself inspired me to share a few things you might not know about me. Here they go:

• My full name is Carlotta Cerri Gambarelli.
• My surname is not first and second surname, like in Spanish: it’s made of two words because my family was nobility in Italy. I’m a countess! (for real)
• I’m Italian. Born in November 1985. 178cm tall. Size 40 of shoes.
• I only drive automatic cars.
• I’m a negative, pessimistic person at core, but you’d never tell by talking to me because I’ve worked hard on it for the past decade.
• I used to be meteoropathic and hate rain, but 12 years in the Costa del Sol cured me: I now love rain!
• Even though I started dancing only when I was 18, in every dance academy I’ve ever been, I ended up joining their show group and working as a dancer in my free time.
• I love grammar and I know every grammar rule of every language I speak.
• English has taken over my brain, and I often struggle to speak Italian. Ask my sister.
• I always write first in English and then translate into Italian and Spanish.
• After university, I wanted to become the next Fernanda Pivano to translate big writers of my time; instead I ended up translating myself on my blog. Big enough.
• For the longest time I rejected my Italian-ness, and only recently I learnt to embrace and appreciate it.
• My husband says I’m the only Italian woman who doesn’t cook. I don’t know about being the only one, but it’s definitely true that I don’t cook.
• I was raised catholic, but when I was a teenager I started shifting away from religious, and now I’m not religious anymore.
• Writing and talking to my husband are the best forms of therapy I know.

If you feel like it, I’d love to hear in the comments one thing I don’t know about you.