A Travel Bag of Memories: Italian Language

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I have started the other day about the contains of my old travel bag which was in the cellar for a few years. As I have mentioned, I found my old post stamps album. That was the first I wrote about the contains of that bag. The 2nd thing I found was my Italian course book, my Italian notebook and some exercises I made when I went to school to learn Italian language. A year before I went for 10 days holidays in Italy, I took an Italian course in VHS (Folk High School) or "basically a German community version of college" where one can learn many language courses. I knew, I didn't have to learn the Italian language for a short visit but I was very interested to do it as I didn't want to get hungry knowing that not many Italians speak English. Learning that language was fun and it was easy for me to pronounce the words as some of the words are similar to Spanish and my Filipino dialects. The ending of the course was that we (students) went to an Italian restaurant and had to talk in Italian and of course we had to order in Italian, too. The owner of the restaurant was told that we had to practice and should only be served when ordering in Italian language. Well, that was a long time ago. Since then, I have not spoken Italian unless I order food in an Italian restaurant. BTW, learning the language before traveling to Italy had helped me a lot. The first day, I was even able to communicate with a local who was asking something. The sad thing was, my old friend was angry at me because I surprised her that I could speak to that local person in Rome. Sigh! The course was taught from Italian to German language as you can see in the photo. Would you learn a foreign language before traveling to that country you want to visit? Thank you for reading.