i think i've heard this italian word more than i've heard "grazie" or "ciao."
it means something along the lines of:
"well..."
"anyway..."
..."moving on."
our renaissance art teacher, silvia giorgi, is a full-fledged italian. she rides the bus from florence to siena for our class and she uses "allora" likes it's her j-o-b. but she knows it. she explained it to us the very first few minutes of our very first class... "allora." but vowels in italy are drawn out. you get "alloooora." "ciaoooo." we love it. it's something i'll definitely miss once we leave italy. whenever it's quiet, you can count on someone to whip out a long "allooora," in the silvia voice.
we saw silvia for the last day this morning... i'm done with class! i had both finals today, and so now all i need to do is take a long walk around siena tomorrow, pick up some last minute things, pack up ny suitcase, clean the apartment and get pumped for rome.
...too bad i'm in a room full of people studying for tomorrow's tests.
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