And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.
Today she juggles job, marriage and family while straddling three continents, with a home in California where she spends weekends and holidays with her two college-student children, ages 23 and 18, and trips to Europe and Asia, where her husband works.