She began to imitate Americans, to dress like Americans, to mimic their various regional accents - Texas, New York, Midwest. She watched American movies and TV shows, even the soap operas, paying fine attention to every detail. She soaked it up like a sponge - she told herself that everything she learned might be useful in the future, when she went to the USA.
Roberto took any part-time job she could get and began to save her money in order to achieve her ambition. She mainly washed dishes, delivered groceries, swept floors. Every now and then she was lucky enough to get a job as an extra in a movie that was shooting an exterior scene in Cinecittà. One was a Fellini film, and she actually met Frederico Fellini himself, for a fleeting instant. A stack of movie posters was nearby, and Rober
