Architecture is My Delight. Thomas Jefferson said that Architecture is my delight, and putting up and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements.. He spent much of his life putting up and pulling down, most notably during the forty-year construction period of Monticello.
Zia is an Italian equivalent of the English word aunt.. Specifically, the Italian word is a feminine noun. Its singular definite article la means the.. Its singular indefinite article una means a, one.. The pronunciation is TSEE-ah..
The aunt is a nameless character that Suki does not offer a description of. She accompanies her nephew and two nieces on a train ride. She is not very good with the children. All the kids are fairly small and their aunt is unable to capture their interest.