University, here I am .

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I know, I always start out like this...but I apologize (again) for the lack of posts. 

I recently (on Wednesday) started University. It's a completely different thing that leads to a whole new organization of my daytime. I rarely wake up before 9 am, I often have to take both train and Minimetro, a sort of small tram that goes around Perugia, which is the main city in my region, where more or less all the Universities are. I'm completely alone in my new class, I always need to change room, I sometimes have to wait some hours between the first lesson and the second one...BUT I like all this because it's new !

As I wrote in my ''presentation'' I would like to become and Italian teacher abroad, and this University (University for Foreigners) is perfect for my future project. My class is composed by only 25 people or so, the majority are Japanese or Chinese students, and all the others are Italians, Moroccans and one American. I can honestly say that I had no words with anyone in my class, I spoke with nobody, I'm terribly shy...and this is not something that happened to me before. I usually am very friendly, extrovert...but in this new class, I have the feeling, that I'm the only one at my first year, I feel like I'm the youngest and I'm afraid to start a conversation with older people, although we may have only 2 or 3 years of difference. I hope I will make friends soon or it will be pretty terrible for me whenever I'll miss a lesson or anything else.

A part from my class, I enjoyed the few lessons I had this first week ! 

I want to share with you this lovely post that my Mum successfully published on my Facebook Wall ! So proud of her...it usually takes 20 minutes or so, in her case, to understand how to do anything on the internet ahah

1 Settembre 1997 Fede il primo giorno di asilo
1 Ottobre 2014 il mio pulcino apre le ali...e va all'università.
Fede, vola in alto, raggiungi i tuoi sogni !
 Ricorda che se la tua strada è in salita, è solo perché sei destinata ad arrivare in altro.
Con l'affetto di sempre..        

Mamma

Translation (more or less): 1st September 1997,  Fede her fist day or kindergarten. 1st October 2014, my chick opens her wings...and goes to Univeristy. Fede, fly high, reach your dreams! Remeber that if you're way is hard, it's only because you're bound to arrive really high ! With love... Mum''

I'll try my best in posting new things this week, I have a haul on his way and a couple of other ideas, hopefully I'll write something at the end of next week, you'll see if I'll wake it or not...you can always check my twitter for updates :) Have a nice Sunday !

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Sensational Umbria by Steve McCurry .

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Thursday afternoon I went in Perugia, one of the biggest cities of my region. As last year, the famous photographer Steve McCurry (that you may not know but you surely know this work of him, appeared on National Geographic) is doing an expositions of his works there, and this year the theme was my region itself. Known as ''Sensational Umbria'', the photos collection is composed by pictures of local landscapes, medieval and traditional festival and events, monuments etc. . McCurry was around in the main months when the cities have their main traditional festivals and events, and he was here to catch almost all of them. 

I found all his works magnificent. I can honestly say he's my favourite photographer, mainly because he can perfectly compose a picture that looks normal at the same time, and he is also able to use the colors in the best way.

These are some pictures I got to take at the entrance of the exposition, that was divided in two buildings, Palazzo della Penna and the ex Fatebenefratelli. I found this last building having the best pictures, mainly because they were exposed in the nicest way ever. Dark room and panel on the floor with the pictures on them. Loved it ! 

These are the pictures I took out of the Ex Fatebenefratelli, the view was lovely!

These are the stairs inside Palazzo della Penna. It is quite an old building but the inside is modern as you can see. When we entered, there was a conference about the reading public of the city, I didn't quite get what was the main theme of the speech of the lady, because we were heading downstairs to the 2nd part of the Steve McCurry's exposition and also because this reading club organised a photograpy exposition as well. All those lovely pictures of the city contained people or a single person reading in the corner,at the center, everywhere basically.

The quality of the pictures is not the highest because, as you can imagine, I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside. I had time to collect some quotes before going inside the expositions, and you car hear them in the promo video that the photographer himself made.

I hope you like this blog post, I wish goodluck to everyone who's starting or restarting school tomorrow morning. Have a nice week :)

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