Scout in class

Good morning !

More than a month ago, Giulia, a friend of mine, asked me if I wanted to be involved in something interesting. Her mum works as a teacher in an elementary school, not far from where we live. 

This year they're working on a project where the children discover more about community, help, friendship and many other topics that could easily be connected with scoutism. 

I can't precisely remember the day, but in March our leader Luca, Giulia and I visited the class and met the children. Throughout the year they read the ''Jungle Book'' by Kipling, on which the activities for youngest scout are based. They already knew names, stories, traditions and many other things, it was a pleasure to work with them. On this first meeting they welcomed us singing ''Strade di Coraggio'', a song written for the national event we had last year, and ,while singing, they were holding a draw of the official logo. We than taught them a couple of songs for scout of their age and we spoke a little bit, discovering what they thought about scoutism and we answered their questions. 

This morning we had the second and last meeting: when we arrived they were still in the gym, doing activities connected with music. After that, we taught them another song and than we moved the activities outside. We played a game outside and they has do much fun ! When it came the time to say goodbye, in order to thank us, the children started singing ''Up'' by Olly Murs and Demi Lovato and they also danced !

After this ''last goodbye'' I felt emotional: it was hard not to cry a little bit but I managed to hold back the tears. Those 9 kids were so sweet, I really do hope the best for them.

This is it for today. This afternoon I'm going to cut my hair (rare event...for which I'm so so so nervous) and tonight I'll probably go to the cinema, because I won free tickets ahah 

Have a nice weekend !

Fede

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Please Diana and random notes .

Good afternoon everyone !

Obviously I wish good morning or evening to all of you who are reading this post later or who live in time zones different from mine. 

As you may or may not have noticed,  I finally discovered how to change a couple of songs on the music bar on top of the blog, and that I found a background that I like more than roses. It wasn't flowers fault, it's just that they're the background on my phone and laptop as well. 

Than, I'd like to inform you that, with enormous surprise, this morning I saw that this blog reached 2K visualizations AND that this week I passed, with a pretty good mark, the language test I had in Uni to see if I was level C1 in English :)  

Now let's move to the main topic of this post. 

On Sunday morning, a friend of mine told me that, on Google+, he noticed all the links I posted about my blog. He was curious and he came into this page, read something and liked it ! It may seems quite normal for you, but it wasn't for me. Fact is, if I write in English and I don't post anything about this blog on Facebook, is mainly because I don't want people who live around me or that know me, to read it. There's nothing that I'm ashamed of or that is so particular that no one knows about it, I'm just both afraid and annoyed of their judgments.

BUT, knowing that there are Italian readers or people that may know what I'm talking about, without too many descriptions...I can think about new topics that I previously considered useless to share.

Today, for example, I'm going to write about a music band. 

Thanks to a friend, I started reconsidering Italian music in October, discovering groups as the Gazebo Penguins, I Ministri and the ''FASK'' (Fast Animals and Slow Kids).

Randomly I saw that a group of guys, few years older than me and who live in my area, were in a band, won a competition and had the opportunity to make a CD, to record their own songs. When I heard a couple of them, I already knew that I really liked them ! The whole album, although it was their first one, turned out to be one of my favorites. They are known as ''Please Diana''. Some of the musicians are friends of mine, and I knew the others because, as I said, we all live in the same area. 

I don't know much about their history, but I bet you can discover more on their website, where you will also be able to find their Twitter and Instagram accounts, Facebook page, YouTube channel etc. 

You can download their songs and you'll ''pay with a tweet''. This means that, promoting their albums on both Facebook and Twitter, you ''pay'', and you can download the album (for free, basically). 

Although you may or may not understand the lyrics, I highly recommend you to listen to their songs, they're really great. I had the opportunity to shoot some backstage pictures, when they were recording their new music videos, and I had sooo much fun. 

I hope that you enjoyed reading, I wish you all a good weekend and have a nice day !

ℱede

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Real (better) life - Update #2

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I need to say in advance that this is supposed to be a quick update, but the truth is that to write it down I'm taking more time than what I expected.

After my Bloggiversary, I had tons and tons of ideas for new blog posts. None of them has been realized, not yet. Everything is inside my head, I planned every photo shoot it takes to make every blog post, I have new materials (clothes, gifts, shoes...) to show you and books to write about. 

The reason for which all these ideas are unrealized is not a lack of time or ideas but because I lately thought about myself a little bit more. Some aspects of my life are changing in negative, others in positive, others are as they were before. 

The real update is that I'm changing, I'm going through a phase in my life that I've been waiting for a long time. If I need to quickly say what changed I can write you a sort of list.

- I have a best friend. A new one, surprisingly is a guy, we get along and he understands me. 

- I didn't stop biting my nails as I wanted to, but I'm starting to lose weight again. It may be a long journey, it may end in few weeks...I already lost 6 kgs and I'm starting to feel good with my body, I'm happy for what I've achieved and I'm looking forward to arrive at the body-shape I've always wanted.

- I met new persons, I have fun with them, laugh a lot and I'm always looking forward to spend a night with them, even if it means to spend money playing billiards and darts at the Pub. 

- I have new friends at the Uni. Some of them, almost everybody, are older than me, but this is not a problem at all, I find myself talking with someone way older than me as if he/she was my age.

- I often drive and even if I'm alone in the car for 10 minutes, I really enjoy this time by myself, I think a lot and listen to good music, of every king.

- I have a special friendship with my cousin that, for me, has become a sister.

- Yesterday, with my scout group, we went in Tuscany and picked some chestnuts. We than ate them in front of the fireplace. Really nice day out.

- I got a new haircut. Nothing special but still, something new that makes me happy.

- I like to workout

- I'm using less make up

- I finished to read '' And the mountains echoed'' by Khaled Hosseini and I found it amazingly beautiful.

- I finished ''Breaking Bad'' and just started ''Game of Thrones''

- I went to the Eurochocolate with my friends, here's a picture of us

Sofia - Giulio - Chiara - Me - AnnaMarta

These are small and big events that made my life a little better this month, hopefully everything will stay as it is now, or will improve in November. 

I didn't mentioned certain aspects of my life that, at the moment, are not in their ''rose period'', but I really do hope that I'll solve them out soon.

On the 10th of November I'll have my first exam, and for this reason, until that day I may not be able to post anything. Being so cold outside, I think I'll have more time to stay in my home and write something down. 

In the meantime, I wish you all an amazing week, enjoy autumn !

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