My First Party is gone...

...right now it's 3:40am and I'm still awake 'cause I'm kinda drunk (once again)!
It's been busy: I mean I had my fist goodbye party and it was just great! We went to my roommate's advisor and we had a lot of fun talkin' and drinkin'!

After that, we went downtown and we met some friends: I met this really nice american guy who was in the navy for 6 years going around the world: everything was just fine!

Since we had cycled to go downtown, that guy offered us a ride and told us that he was gonna carry our bikes in his truck.

Finally we keep our party going on at our place and you can see some pictures: we drank a two more beers and we talked about things and stuff. I'm so wasted, but I really enjoyed the night!

By the way, today I bought a new camera: a Canon 750 something! WOW guys: it's just amazing... going to bed now! click!

I got a nice Italian poetry...

...my wife wrote it for me last night, I don't who wrote that poetry, but it's really beatuful and nice, so below, you can read a tentative translation:

Gently touch my hands and drive me to fly through the magic world of feelings, where only love matters, where gold an jewels are worthless.

Kiss me and get me into your heart where winged dreams and magic emotions live...

Tighten me in your arms as I were a baby, smell me as a flower touched by the breeze of the wind and kissed by the sunshine.

Don't leave me alone even only for a second and remember I'm yours and you will be mine.

By my kisses, I don't wanna chain and get you into a golden cage because I'm aware love is a gift, source of life...
...next to me you will always be free and I will be yours forever.


I close my eyes and I see you smiling as the sun. I open my eyelids and you are next to me like a blinding light!

I'm you and you're me, we're like the day and the night. we are complete only when we hold our hands.

Come, caress me and don't leave me!

Living with you is a dream that lasts through time: neither sunrise nor sunset can be better that us, because we are unique... we are sunset and sunrise

LOVE IS A MISTERY THAT WILL BE REVEALED ONLY WHEN WE'LL GET FREE LIKE BIRDS IN LOVE WITH THE WIND, THE SKY AND THE SUNLIGHT.

NOW MORE THAN EVER I NEED A KISS AND CARESS!


okay, I know I'm a bad translator... but this poetry is lovely!

The legend of the Fryer...

...has been created! Three guys...which one is "The Fryer"? In that house something is gonna happen... a new secret is gonna be revealed soon: "The Fryer" starts on April 30! The movie that is gonna blow you away!!!! Only in Melbourne's theaters!

Rated PG-13

Tha'one is been only a joke that is pretty difficult to get if you don't know the exact situation which it's been developed in! Moreover, since this is a public-accessible blog I can't say more: if u were interested in knowin' more details , I could send me an email and I will be happy to an'ser your questions :) !

By the way, tonight is kind of a special night, because after two months Brian came back from Ecuador, so we celebrated his return drinkin' a good bottle of Australian wine (thank Brian, it was really really good and tasty!).

it doesn't count for anything sayin' that we got a little bit drunk but we have been having such a good time for the last three hours and the legend of "The Fryer" started!

Right now, I'm eating the delicious nutella-topped bread that you guys can see in one of the pictures I'm postin' with this (the other one is a picture of the wine we've been drinkin' and we still are drinkin')!


I have to say that I've been worried about my returning to Italy lately, and this nice evening is helpin' me not to think about silly things. I really calmed down thanks to my friends!!!

Guess What??

Yep...you right... drunk once again!! It's been a while since the last time I was totally sober...
These are supposed to be my last days here and I'm feelin' kind of excited about going back to Italy, but at the same time I'm feelin' kind of bored and helpless. I get up in the morning and I start judgin' myself: what have u been doin' in these months? have u been really learnin' anything? My American friends tell me to take it easy. Today someone told me (I wasn't either speakin' about that) that it's amazing all the progresses have been doin' in these months and my capacity to cope with the new language has been just incredible....I a'swered: "OK, you right, whatever!". To be honest with u guys, I feel suddently ashamed every time I have to speak with a stranger even though now I perfectly know that I can do that with no problems at all!
Anyway next year I'm gonna repeat this experience even though I'll try to get to a university in the north, just to see the differences between these two parts of this wondeful country!

By the way, I wish i could get rid of "gonna, wanna and gotta" and start sayin' "going to, want to and got to", but I think it's too late.... any attempt is gonna fail, no way men!

Tonight no pictures because my camera decided to stop workin', suddently! I'm feeling sad for my camera....

I have a lot of clothes to be washed, but I'm not feeling like comin' to the laundry and turn on neither the washing machine nor the dryer because I'm gettin' sleepy and the time being left before my departure, even if it's only 5 days, is drivin' me totally crazy.

Guess it's time to say goodbye: I'll miss you nice country and I'll miss you guys too (talkin' about the friends I've been makin' here)

Gotta go to watch South Park, now! Good night there!

Hangin' around...

...NY: in this picture I'm under Brooklyn Bridge! WOW, it's so amazing!

I took the other picture at the UN: you guess right! I was inside the auditorium that we usually watch on the tv news!

I already miss the US!

Now I'd better go to bed or else...: if an American guy tells you:---you'd better do that or else--- "or else" is more than a simple warn... usually it's more like a threat, if u guys know what I mean :) !!

I changed my mind...

...right after I saw the World Trade Center Memorial (New Yorkers don't like to call that place Ground Zero): all that devastation around me and some of the stories some guys told me, I finally convinced myself that it was one of the most horrible tragedies it had never happened in the entire World. You hav'to see that to believe what I'm talkin' about right now! Anyway, for the rest, u guys know what I think about that awful tragedy!!!

Goooo Panther!!!...

...one week from now I will be lying on my bed again....
Guess what guys? I'm totally drunk tonight too! Yup, I'm pretty wasted. Went downtown, hangin' around, doing nothing just drinkin' and talkin'. If I think about my English now, I can say: Oh my God, it's just awesome compared to the English I was speakin' my first days here. Sometimes I tell my friend: guys: how'd I manage to survive here the first days, when I didn't know even to say "gotta go to the bathroom"?. I mean, I did know how to say that, but it wasn't easy at all, and I was feeling weird all the time I was talkin' in English.

U can imagine that the most difficult words for a "Romagnolo" guy to pronounce are thrsty, with, and on and on. Oppositely, I learned right away how to pronounce "thing" as they do and stuff like that. My favourite English word is "ridiculous" which is used to say for example "that thing costs a lot of money": in that case you guys would say: I'm not gonna buy it, its price is just ridiculous.

Finally, my knowlege of the language allows me to say everything I feel like saying: just to make a silly example, tonight we were talkin' about american society and more complicated thing I'm not allowed to explain here because I don't wanna get behind the bars few days before going back to Italy.

At least, my stay here has been counting for something. I'm gonna miss these evenings when I simply go out, hunging around doing nothing, saying' bullshits all the time, makin' fun of some ilarious people and, and... that's it I guess.

I'm gonna remember this place sayin': those were the days!!!!

Anyway, tomorrow morning I'm gonna be again in sheep configuration. As I translated from Italian to English "Leone di notte, pecora al mattino": Lion at night, sheep in the morning.

I also got a plush (the one u guys can see in the picture), just to remind myself that I've been part of this big/small community for a while: guys, I can say that somehow I'm gonna be part of this community for all my life long.


Just to make a rewiew of my time here, I can say that finally I've been in more than one place, I flew through some airport, just to recall the most important ones: Atlanta, Orlando, NY JFK (it's kind of awful)... NY "La Guardia"... if I remember right I think that "La Guardia" was a former NY mayor and actually it's a shame that they pronounce that very Italian name: "La gu'a'ria.

I got to that airport only by chance because when I went to Manhattan, I was supposed to land in NY JFK... Finally, few hours before my departure, my flight to NY JFK was cancelled, and they rebooked me on a different flight: the result of this was that I would have to have three layover: Melbourne-Atlanta-Orlando-JFK that it would have been just ridiculous because flying from Melbourne to Atlanta and then from Atlanta to Orlando is like flying from Rome to Bologna and then from Bologna to Naples to finally get in Milan from Naples...yes, they were just out of their minds!!!!

Anyway, I was telling you: I came to Melbourne International and the hostess at Delta's counter got my reservation, looked at my itinerary, started laughing and called her colleague: <<"Hey Bob, you gotta see this: does anybody know about geography here?">>. Then she apologized for that mistake and provided to place my nice ass on a reasonable itinerary!! She was really kind. I met her again one week later: I was about to fly once againg and she was again on duty at the same Delta's counter! She told me:--Hey, How's i'goin'? I remember you...you are La Guardia: was your flight alright?--.

That non-sense story just because it's non-sense tells you guys a very important thing: in the US you can even meet by chance some very kind and funny individuals, and anyway flyin' around the US in pretty cool!!

I had such a great time in NY City...the only shame was when I had to leave the city: -18 celsius degrees a lot of snow... I thought my flight was gonna be canceled: in the other pictures you can see Brooklyn totally covered with snow and a nice (but at that time a little bit unconfortable) picture (very blurred) of my plane taken from gate A18 before the departure from one of the most incredible cities I've ever been in. That was the time :) !!

Before going to bed...

...what better than eatin' some mint-chocolate cookies: they taste like "After Eight" and they can help you a lot to fight that throwing-up sensation!!

at the movies at night

Tonight I went to the Movies to watch "The Fracture" with Antony Hopkins: it was a really cool movie and I really enjoyed watchin' it! The spoken English was kind of awkward to understand, but even though I get---I mean understandin' word by word---only the 80 percent of the whole movie---I can definitely say it was a well-done movie and let me say "Antony Hopkins is simply a great actor, at least as great as one of my favourite who's Jack Nicholson. Hopkins has that appeareance of bad and insane guy that makes me really enjoy the roles he usually plays!
While watchin' that movie I was eatin' a lot of junk and really cheap food and drinkin' a medium Coke ( you guys can imagine the size of a medium soda in the US: just as big as a large bucket). tha' one must be the reason why now I'm feeling like throwin' up! It happens when you eat so bad for too many months.

Good night guys, take care and, as usual, it's good to meet you even if only virtually!!!

Ah.. I was about to forget: of course, to get to the movies I used my inseparable bike that has been carrying my ass everywhere in these months: by the way you can see a nice picture of my (crappy and dorky) bike. Thanks to it my ass is gettin' flat and my balls squeezed. Nonetheless I'm gonna miss it!!

on the beach at sunrise....

I went to the ocean cycling in the morning: lovely weather, nice people around... I had a really great time lying on the beach and getting tanned: actually I'm preatty tanned now, so at least you guys should show some envy for my tan skin!!! Just kidding... Anyway it was cool!