Back to Reality

Hello surfers!

I'm sorry I haven't updated this blog in a while.
Actually nothing too interesting happened during my exams season and then I left for holidays. Lack of visitors to the blog is not a fillip for me, but I'm aware of the fact that if I don't post anything, things won't get better for sure. Do you have any tips to increase the number of visitors to a blog?

My holidays were great. I had a volunteering experience in EKPAZ, which is the Hellenic Wildlife Hospital, on the Island of Aegina, south of Athens. There, injured and poisoned wild animals are sent and can find a shelter where they are treated and fed in order to be released once they're better. It was a "real life experience", we can say. Hard work and not much food. Unfortunately something very bad happened 3 days after my departure and the bad news put a shade on the memories I'll have of this holiday.
Anyway, volunteering with animals was such a great experience! I would like to repeat it soon.
it's not easy to get back to my books and my daily routine right now. Once you try what's beyond your normal life of student, it's not painless trying to fit again into something that feels too tight for you.

Travelling Journal Project and random stuff

Hello Surfers!

What are you up to these days?
First of all, I'm sorry to tell you that I decided to remove the chat tool from the blog, since it was full of spam and no other comments :( That's sad!

Then, Travelling Journal Project time: I've just found out that it arrived safely to Ukraine yesterday! Sooo happy! There's still a long way to go; anyway, once the first copybook is full, I think I'll ask for it to be headed back to me, while a new copybook will be used by the next participant. In this way, we'll reduce the possibility of the first part of the TJ to get lost in the mail, and I'll also start to scan it and share itwith you! I'm so excited!!!

Alright, change of topic! Daily life :) Exams are coming!!! I'm a bit nervous... So many things to learn and time is never enough! But I'm not alone right? :D
And then this weekend is going to be very important for my country: we're voting for some important decisions about nuclear energy, private water and parlimentary privilege.
So please, I'd like to understand what is your personal opinion about nuclear energy. What do foreign countries do about that? Do you think that it is more usufeul than dangerous? let me know!

This is it! Back to work!

General Updates

Hello Surfers :)

I know that it's been a while since I wrote my last post, but actually nothing really new or exciting has happened recently.

I know I had promised to let you know about the Loud and Proud Festival and that's what I'm going to do right now. It was simply... GREAT, AMAZING, FANTASTIC, EXCITING... but most of all... LOUD AND PROUD!!! ;) Ahah, well I think that's the way people normally feel after a concert of their favourite singer/band, so I'm pretty sure there's no need to describe this sensation any further. But you have to know that I'm not really used to go to concerts, so it was something pretty new to me. And beside that, well... Dropkick Murphys are not exactly the same as a classical music concert (with due respect to classical music of course!!!), if you get what I mean...! Sooo... we can say I really loved that. Moreover their new album is so good and I liked the way they mingled new songs with the older ones during the concert.
Unfortunately it was too crowded and... messy! so the few pictures I took in there were really bad :/

Alright. As for the rest, I'm pretty happy these days. The sun is shining almost everyday and there's light until 9 p.m.!!! Thank God, everything's fine, even if approaching exams are staring to smell bad!!! But I feel lucky, so long as my biggest problem is exams :)

Change of topic! My  "Lyrics TN" has started!!! ( http://seequando.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-lyrics-travelling-notebook.html ). So I'm waiting for your sheets, Postcrossers!!! (well, of course, if other surfers would like to participate, just leave a comment under this post!).

That's it!

Please, drop a line in the chat box if you visit this blog (not just for spam, as somebody's doing)! That would be very welcome :)

Good night!

Hello Bloggers!

How are you? Are you finally on holiday? :) Easter is approaching.. how are you going to celebrate it?

Here it's time to take some rest and study a little bit! But during holidays there will be space for some good music as well! Indeed, I'm going to the Sing Loud, Sing Proud festival in Milan on Tuesday! I can't wait!!!

Hands up if you like celtic rock and Dropkick Murphys especially! I hope I can take some good pics there. I'll let you know!   SING LOUD, SING PROUD!

http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/

Chinese Atmosphere

Hello Bloggers!
This is a post to share with you the Chinese atmosphere that flooded into my house the other day, when I received a package from a very kind penpal of mine: Vincent, from China!
This was a great surprise that really brightened my day. Thanks again Vincent!

ENJOY!

 

 

 

NEW! Lyrics Travelling Notebook!

Hello everybody!

This is a post to promote my new Travelling Notebook.
Here's the description I wrote for Postcrossing forum:

I'm pretty sure that all of you like listening to music, but I think that lots of people often don't care too much about the lyrics of the songs they're listening to, while trying to understand the lyrics of my favourite songs is something very important to me. Do you feel in the same way?So come on! Join this Travelling Notebook! 
What we are supposed to do is just write the lyrics of our favourite song(s) on it! It can be just one or more, if you can't choose among too many good ones! Of course, it can be in your own language, but if so, please try to translate it in English so that everybody can understand.
I'm very curious to discover what people listen around the world and, why not, know new bands and singers thanks to this TN!  And the final aim is having a sort of "collection" of great songs whose lyrics are important to us for different reasons.
What do you think about that? 
I was thinking about a sheet TN this time. If there are enough participants, I'll let you know how the sheets should be. If we are just a few participants, then I'll consider the possibility of a "real" TN. 

I've got 5 participants so far:


- zam_akira - Malaysia
- Noeline - Ukraine
- Hedgehog in a fog - Belarus
- yan.k.a - Russia
- creative_art - Washington (USA)
- laventeli - Finland


Please, leave  a comment under this post if you'd like to join.
I'll update this post every time new participants join the TN.
If I decide to make a sheet TN, I promise I'll scan all the sheets I'll receive and make a PDF Document to be shared with you, alright?


Enjoy!  ;)

Buon Compleanno, Italia!!!

Today, Italy is celebrating its 150th Birthday. Indeed, the Unification of Italy was declared on 17th march 1861 . Giuseppe Garibaldi and his men were the leading actors of this great event and Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia was the first king of the new Kingdom of Italy.

Here's a link to Wikipedia, if you are curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification.

Here is the speech of our President Giorgio Napolitano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wtGrynzCs . (I'm sorry, it's in Italian)

Turin was the first capital of Italy and that's the reason why lots of celebrations are taking place there.

Despite the rain, yesterday evening I was in Turin like loads of other people and it was great! Here are some pictures I took there:

Palazzo Madama in Piazza Castello

The Royal Palace in Piazza Castello

The Murazzi and the Po river (high level of the water!)

Piazza San Carlo

The Mole Antonelliana with the Italian colours!

Chiesa della Gran Madre

Monte dei Cappuccini

Fireworks from the Vittorio Emanuele bridge

Unfortunately, Italian people are a bit odd. Abroad, it may look like we have a strong sense of unity and homeland. We are those who were forced to emigrate in the past, but never forgetting their roots and traditions. Anyway, this is not what I feel here. Lots of people don't feel proud to be Italian, or even worse, somebody would prefer not to be a part of Italy, spurning our symbols, flag and anthem. That's really sad, but hopefully this is just a small minority of the population.

We should be proud of our history and thankful to those who lost their lives fighting to give us freedom and unity; and this conscience should be the basis to cooperate and work together to solve the too many problems that we have right now.

Buon Compleanno Italia!