When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.