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• 1 media/IMG_4147.jpeg media/IMG_4138.jpg 2018-12-11T20:39:17-08:00 Civico 1845 21 image_header 2018-12-19T22:17:50-08:00 32.7243° N, 117.1684° W Here at Civico, we had our most surprising experience of the day. It started out as expected. We had set up an interview with Dario, the restaurant's general manager, co-owner, and co-founder. We learned all about the restaurant and owner’s origins, ate some pasta and chatted through the day. However, the turn in our story comes when two Italian men who had greeted Dario when they first entered the restaurant kept waving through the glass window during our interview. As they headed out of the restaurant, I yelled “bye!” because they were obviously trying to get our attention earlier. Then, they had the audacity to walk up to our table, take our notebook and pen out of our hands and sit down in the two empty chairs! Assuming that we were there to be interviewed by Dario, not to conduct our own interview, they told us, “you’re hired! We’ll make it happen...” Listen in class to find out the exciting end to the story.
  The thing we took from this encounter was the bold yet warm welcome of the Italian culture. We have never seen American men approach two girls' table so effortlessly with out making them feel even slightly uncomfortable!