@Update 3 - Albania, Easter, Erasmus and more

Good evening !

Well, I have to admit that I needed to check what was the last update I did on this blog. 

The end of March and April were pretty busy, and for what concern April and May...there's going to be a lot more. 

But let's follow the chronological order to make a sort of summary for this period.

From the 28th of March until the 4th of April I was in Albania. Being on my last year of scout it's highly recommend to take part in a ROSS, a Route of Observation of Strada (Walking) and Service.

Truth is that this translation is not that accurate, and neither this small summary will be. My experience in Albania was really strong and amazing, I'll probably dedicate a whole post about that week, and I'll write about all the things I've done and the amazing people I shared this travel with. 

When I came back, on the day before Easter, a long travel was waiting for me, 3 different trains from Bari to Assisi. When I was having a last breakfast with the group I reconnected internet after a week, and checking my email I discovered something extraordinary !  At the end of February I applied at my University to go in Erasmus. My choices were, in the following order of preference; Finland, Belgium or Austria. I can't describe how excited I was to discover that I was selected to be the only one who's going in...FINLAND ! Next February I'll leave and join the University of Jywaskyla, where I'll study for 5 months. At the moment I don't know that much, but as soon as I'll know more I'll involve the blog as much as I can, making it my ''Erasmus Diary''.

Back on the beginning of April, the 5th was Easter and I had the pleasure to have brunch and dinner with my whole family. The relatives from Venice decided not to join us because a family's friend is getting married in Assisi at the beginning of May, and they prefer to take only that trip to Assisi in this period. That evening I met all my friends in the central square and together we head to an invent know as ''The iPod Battle''. The different groups of the two parts that compete in the local medieval festival (the Calendimaggio) had the opportunity to take part at the battle sending to the group, who organised the event, a number of songs that wasn't going to be longer than 10 minutes. This means that we sent over 3 songs that globally played for 10 minutes, others used 4 shorter songs, or 2 longer ones. Although it was the first year, we ended up 2nd, winning nothing but GLORY !

The day after, also known as ''little Easter'', it's a day in which you spend a day at the seaside eating sea food, or in another city that you've never visited before...it's a day you use to visit some places around and have a nice relaxing day. I went in Orvient, a lovely city in Umbria. I uploaded, literally,a couple of pics on Flickr !

This period (since last week) in my city we are preparing our medieval festival, the Calendimaggio. THIS is the official website of the event, if you're interested check it out. My part is  working to win again, obviously. As a citizen of Assisi, since when I was 3 months I took part at this festival. Yeah, my mum made a cute little medieval dress for me, and I took part at the ''show''. I really like this time of the year, it's probably the only one in which I enjoy spending some time in my city, which usually is pretty boring and empty, not of tourists but I'm talking about events. 

I wish I could write more about this period, but instead of constantly updating this blog, I prefer enjoy these months and after try and summarize what happened. To remember them because I had the chance to properly live these moments...it's the best thing. Have a nice weekend everyone :)

Fede

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Turning 20 !

Good evening everyone !

After (almost) a month from my birthday I decided to write down a proper blog post on how I spent the 17th of February and what I've received as presents.

On Monday 16th I had an important exam. It went really well, so the following day was going to be really relaxing and perfect anyway! 

When I woke up I decided to take a bath, thing that I rarely do. For this special occasion I decided to use for the first time ever...a bath bomb. 

I've never really use one of them before and, in fact, I was so excited when I received one for Christmas. This one is called ''Granny takes a dip'', and it turns your water in dark pink, almost burgundy in my opinion. It smells delicious, a mix of ginger, pepper and lemon (as it says on the description of the product).

Than I decided to treat myself...again. Although I'm terrible when it comes to cook, I tried to make myself some pancakes, and they turned out pretty good. I honestly don't think that the recipe  I used was the original one, in fact I found it on GialloZafferano.com, an Italian cook website. If you have any suggestion, please comment below and let me know. 

The rest of the day I was busy doing different things, it was Tuesday after all.
I properly decided to celebrate my birthday on Thursday the 19th, inviting over in my country house few friends. It was a really pleasant evening ! I was wearing a simple plain blue dress (although in the pictures it seems purple), with long sleeves and that turned out to be a little bit too short for me, after taking it to the seamstress.

In order: Andrea, Giacomo, Federico, Davide, Gioele, Mario, Andrea, Giulio, AnnaMarta, Ilaria, Sara, Sofia, Valentina, Giorgia, Lucrezia, Chiara, Lorenza, Elia e Guido.

As I previously wrote, I'd like to show you the presents I received. I'm not doing this to show you what I've got and brag about these things, I'm only trying to give you some ideas if you'll want to make a gift to someone.
I have no idea about the prices because, as I sad, they were presents. I also apologize for the multiple location used to shoot the pictures, I took them in different days, whenever and wherever I could, so that's why.

Stockings and socks from Calzedonia. 

I'm obsessed with Adidas' classical model. I've been buying a pair of this since when I was 8, and luckily this year they released that old model I love, and I was so happy to finally find my number ! - Adidas Stan Smith

Bracelets from DonnaPiù

Plain basic grey and black tshirt - Fortini Sport 

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Clémént Chéroux (Contrasto Editore) - Grazie Leo :)

Lighters with letters on - Diddi was the surname I used to introduce myself when I was a child, because it seems like Federica was quite a long word for me to pronounce !

Hope you enjoyed this blog post, I wish you all an amazing week end! 

Fede

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Reviewing #2 - The Theory of Everything (2014)

Goodmorning everyone !

On Monday morning I'll have my first oral exam, and it's Latin, one of the most disgusting subjects (in my opinion). I'm already so so nervous and I found few minutes to write down this post. Hopefully there won't be too many grammar mistakes, considering that I'm in rush !

* Another really quick news: On Sunday 15th the Please Diana (the group I once wrote about) is releasing a new song. Check it out on their website ! *

Today I would like to write about a movie that is currently at the cinema, but that will probably will removed soon, not because of something bad in it, it has only been in the movies programming for weeks and weeks. The movie was released on 2014, but in Italy we have the bad habit to dub everything (tv series, tv programs etc.). Although, compared to the ones in other countries, our voice actors are good, I'm saying ''bad habit'' because I personally enjoy a lot more the real voice of every actor, and when it comes to translate, there are certain elements of a language (such as jokes, idiomatic expressions...) that cannot be translated literally ! They will lose their meaning, so we need to use sentences and words that may express the same concept but that won't preserve the original version. Plus, I think that, if I can understand different accents and other languages it's mainly because I always try to watch movies and series in their original languages, I may add subtitles to comprehend in a better way, but I rarely do. It's a way to improve my knowledge. 

* From this point: SPOILER ALERT *

Back to the movie. ''The theory of everything'' is about Stephen and Jane Hawking's story.

Not being a huge lover of physic, I don't know that much about the life of this famous scientist, but I definitely want to discover more about him and his theory now that I've seen more about him. The plot contains the development of the love between these two young people, a story parallel to the worsening of Stephen's health, due to this rare disease that, they say at the beginning, won't allow him to live longer that 2 years. Despite this first verdict, Hawking is still alive nowadays!

The colors are quite cold and pastel, and I love them like this ! The main actors are magnificent, the dresses are perfect and the photography is amazing. There's the scene in which Stephen discovers about his disease and, despite this, he tries to open up his fingers while he's taking a bath...there's the perfect composition of a scene ! Everything's so symmetrical....just perfect !

I need to say that I was sad when I discovered that Jane ended up marrying another man, when Stephen decided to leave for the USA, to keep developing his theory. Although it was perfectly fine for both of them...I really hoped they were going to represent the perfect couple for the ''and they lived happily ever after''.

I can't think about anything else at the moment, luckily I'll be able to re-edit this post in the future. 

I leave you with this is the quote, the one I liked the most in the whole movie, and I wish you all a good weekend. 

''The should be no boundaries to human endeavor. 

However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope'' 

Fede

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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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Back from Gallipoli !

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How are you guys doing? I hope everything's fine and that you're all enjoying summer as much as you can ! As I probably wrote on my last blog post, I say probably because I haven't been around for more than a week and I can't remember, I was on vacation in the south of Italy for 10 days with some friends.

We had a small but cute apartment in Baia Verde, the beach-party side of Gallipoli, an amazing city!
We had the average vacation you can expect from 7 people that are finally done with high school and exams! We partied almost every night, we went in discos, we danced on the beach...we had a great life!

Saying this I'm basically confessing that I didn't had my camera with me the whole time, I took picture with my iPhone and the ones I took with my Canon, that I'm going to post here, are from the ancient part of Gallipoli, the center of the city that is absolutely stunning and that we visited with calm during the last two days.
If you want to check the ''party picture'', I'll leave my friends' instagram accounts and mine below.

The kind of apartment where we stayed during the week

This little boy spent a couple of days at our place, and we called it Prajo (as the disco ''Praja'' where we often went)

Al little bit devastated and without make up

A typical dessert in Gallipoli, the Spumone

Typical bread, called Puccia. Inside you could add everything (I went for tomato, mozzarella, tuna and potatoes salad) 

What about your vacations this year? Would you ever consider Gallipoli as a place where to spend your holidays? :)

My friends' Instagram accounts: Chiara * Anna Marta * Sofia * Giorgia * Giulio * Guido

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Drive license and books - Update #1

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This is a really quick update. And when I say quick, this time i'm not going to write the usual 50.000 words blog post. 

Sorry I haven't been writing much, I've been very busy with school and summer is so close that I may start crying thinking that until the 10th of July (or something like this) I'll be able with my final exams.

Lately I've been enjoying reading, a lot! In particular, I finally decided, thanks to a friend of mine that kindly borrowed me this book, to start reading one of those books that you've heard about many many times but that you've never seriously consider as something to read. And I'm talking about John Green's ''The fault in our stars''. I'm reading it in English, and it's so amazing how easily I understand. At first I was a little worried because I usually have difficulties in reading in English when it comes to a proper book, instead of a short test or something else for school. I'm pretty sure I'm going to write a review, or at least something that will pretty much look like one of those long comments about a certain book. 

Another important event...oh yeah, yesterday I took my drive license! I finally did it and I'm so proud that I made it at the first attempt. When it came to the theory part, I failed the first time because I studied by myself and it was the period in which it was not clear what kind of test I was going to do. With this I mean to say that here in Italy there were a certain kind of testes for the drive license that had to be replaced with new ones, the Europeans, with new things to study. When I had the theory test, it should have been the first time with the new testes but they kept moving the exact date, and at the end I studied for both, so this meant I was not fully ready for both of them. And I failed (with 5 errors, maximum to get it done is 4...ugghhh!!). The second time, with the new testes, went perfectly, as yesterday's practical exam. The only thing I'm a little bit upset is that the ''minister of transport'' (or however I can translate it) printed my drive license with a mistake. It was written that I need glass when I drive; this isn't exactly wrong because I have glasses but I'm not blind without them, I only miss few degrees. So yeah, they broke it in front of me, while I was holding the marking pen to finally sign that plastic card that was going to lead me to freedom...kinda dramatic in this way, but that's basically what happened. In one week my card will arrive and I'll be authorized to drive on my own, but untill that day it's like I didn't have my examination yet. All my plans for the weekend are ruined; they were not great because I'll just work as photographer for a couple of birthday parties but still, I feel the taste of loss in my mouth! (If this is an expression I can translate).

So really this is it, I'll post as soon as I can, a picture of me driving...or at least a fake one in the car :) 

Have a nice weekend xxx

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Spring crisis .

Let's be honest. At the moment I'm going trough a bad period. 

I eat everything, at every moment of my day and than I complain about the fact I'm gaining weight, I gave up on my diet. 

I can't study. I sit, read and than start wondering about several things. I think a lot, I force myself to stay focused...but I just can't. 

I'm constantly waiting for a break, although I just had one for the school trip, one week ago. It already seems a month or two that I'm not temporary away from school. Easter holiday are next week, but I won't be able to stand this all week I still have to face. 

The worst part of this situation is that I know what's going on but I'm not reacting. I keep telling myself I need to study I won't make it to the final exams this year, I keep confessing people that I'm not a good student, not as good as I used to be...I'm just bad now. I feel ignorant, I feel frustrated from the fact that I'm the only one who fails at everything in my class. But still, I do not react. 

I thought it was because I'm way more attached to YouTube than what I used to be (I'm planning to open my YouTube channel this summer, I'm saving money to get a DSLR camera that can film as well), because I'm often busy with theater, because I'm focused in this blog...it's not like this. 

All I do is sitting in front of the desk, with or without headphones on, and start wandering why I'm doing nothing, what's wrong with me, what's the solution at this situation.

Give up and repeat the year? It seemed an option, that I didn't confess to anyone of course. But again, it's a sufferance to stay in this high school, I'm looking forward to go to Uni, I need to change life, I can't stand another year like this one. 

I don't feel the pressure of the exams coming, I don't care about what my teachers say when I take a bad mark. And I don't even feel like this blog post helped me out in any way, I would love to have a positive feedback from all you people that are part of the 675 visualizations I reached. 

I need your advises. When I started writing I didn't really think that someone could be interested in this "little internet space of mine" but than I saw the visualizations growing higher and higher after every blog post and now I'm expecting and hoping for a proper "talk" with you. 

I don't know what to do . This blog post is the way I have chosen to let off steam! Sorry if it's not the average one i write, I just didn't feel like an average calm post.

Turning 19 .

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On February the 17th was my birthday! Yes, although you're almost one month late, you can also wish me happy bday commenting below, I don't mind about the timing, i appreciate the wishes (i'm joking! ahah). So i turned 19 on a Monday, and since the fact that Monday is the worst day to party, i decided to have a small aperitif-dinner with some friends at my place on Sunday evening. We had something to drink, as white wine, aperol etc. I felt so sophisticated and rich: i'm not both but on my birthday i felt like i could act as if was. It may sounds stupid but after the 4th season of Gossip Girl...you need to feel in that way ahah. After that we had a proper dinner with rice and meat, served as in a buffet. I had fun during the whole evening and we waited all together until midnight, you know, just to give sense to the evening (it was not my birthday for the whole time ahah) and after the cake and the presents almost everyone left because the day after was Monday, hated Monday. 

I unfortunately don't have any picture of the evening, I don't really know why. I have a picture of the dress i wore, here it is. It was my mum's present, since the fact that as dress it not that cheap! The shape of it it's amazing and also the yellow was not that bright, kinda mustard, loved it. Sorry for the water-closet in the background but i realized I didn't have a picture of my outfit until when i decided to go to bed so I used the first mirror i found, unfortunately was the toilet's one. 

Yellow dress from Zara - Peter Pan collar (gold and black beads)  from Hotice

The main birthday present i got was this Canon lens, the 50mm. I wanted it for so long. It's not the best one in terms of value for money, but it was until one or two years ago. It's not expensive in fact and let me show you guys some pictures i did with it. Also the other pictures i did for this blogpost are made with the same lens that, i think, i won't be able to remove anymore! I'll use it constantly, it's amazingly good.

Blanket from Butlers -  Lamp from IKEA

Few days ago my grandparents came over and they brought me their presents (in collaboration with my other relatives). I'm not the kind of person that often wears belts and particular scarfs, I often chose average, monochrome ones, but i'll try to wear both the presents i got.

I wear this belt on an average grey sweatshirt from ThinkPink with a brown leather jacket on. 

This green scarfs with black chihuahua printed on it it's from REACT. I find the metal box really cute :3

I liked my presents, maybe some of them are still on their way. Some friends of mine, in fact, live in other city so when i'll receive something i'll update this blogpost, or maybe i will  just re-write a new one, as an haul post...we will see.

Hope you liked this blogpost with a new quality for photography ! Have a nice weekend everyone :)

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Photo contests .

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How are you? I hope you all had an amazing Christmas! I know i'm late but i wish you MERRY CHRISTMAS in any case :) I think i will write a post showing you some presents my friends and family gave me this year, so maybe i can give you some ideas for future gifts (Christmas and bday ones).

But today what i want to do is to show you two pictures I made to take part and ofc try to win two different photo contests.

● The first contest i took part was organized by Assicity, an association composed by young people from my city who try to create events such as christmas markets in the main square, parties during the whole year, Halloween included, or summer games. Everyone likes these events because my city is small, medieval and mainly famous because of St.Francis, churches and other religious things. To keep the tourism alive no one really thinks about the young people who lives in here, there are no special occasions for us to meet and party.

In any case, this association, to finance other events, this year decided to print a calendar that was going to have 12 different pictures, one for each month. To find original photos they decided to organize this contest, where the main theme was 'Red'.

This is the picture i sent to take part in the competition.

Made with Canon1000D, edited by a friend of mine with a program i don't know
but that is better than mine for sure ahah

The pictures were not judged by photographers or by the members of the association but they were uploaded on Facebook on Assicity's page (without the names of the authors) and they were voted by all the people who were fan of the profile. Mine was one of the first 12, so it was selected to represent November on the calendar that are available since Friday 27th till Sunday 29th.

The pictures i sent had worse colors than the ones i posted up there but was really similar; i decided to upload here the one that a friend of mine edited to make it more lightfull, and i find it really nice in this way.

● The second contest i took part was organized by my school. On the last day before christmas holiday, the 21st of December, this contest was over and the people who won the writing contest (with poetries and stuff), the drawing contest and the photography one, received a little award that was a small present (a frame i guess).

I unluckily didn't win, but i'll show you below the pictures i did for the theme ''Violence against women''

Canon 1000D

To make this picture as i was creating it in my mind, i organized my own photo set at home and, as model, i chose my cousin Lorenza (you can find her on Twitter). If you are wondering... the hand is my brother's ahah just saying !

To be completely honest with you guys, i didnt really like these two pictures. I'm sure i've done better ones, also for other contests. I personally like street photography, i like to capture the moment and the geometrical shapes around me. When it came to build my own pictures, i really didnt know what to expect, i mean both the pictures are not natural and i was not sure if send them or not. I did and i'm glad i did in any case (either i win or lose) ahah

Write what you think about the pictures in the comment below, i'll be glad to hear your opinion of them :) have a nice day everyone!

A quote from Buddha .

HeyHey! 

How are you guys doing ? I'm doing fine at the moment, just praying not to have an oral test on these final days of school ! On the 23rd morning I will officially be in holiday :D I love Christmas time and this year I have been really looking forward to it! It's even the first time I properly decorate my bedroom for this time of the year; I bought xmas lights, I got a christmassy blanket and a little Christmas tree in wood as well (it is so cute, you can put on it the little balls in wood you find in the box).

I don't have much to write about since the fact that yesterday I had a play at the theatre, the one I have been working for since September, so as you can imagine I've been at the Theatre more or less the whole week for several hours. In any case, the play turned out amazingly and to be honest, the time was flying for me when I was standing on the stage, performing my character (if this is a good expression to use). Oh if I ever write something wrong (expressions, grammar mistakes or anything else), let me notice it in the comment below, I'll appreciate that because I'm here to learn. 

I think I will have time to take pictures of what I bought this period and post some of them below, with the xmas present I will get (because I think I've been a good girl this year :D), and I also have in mind a photography experiment to do, we'll see if I can make it.

On the next post I'll publish two pictures I did for two different contests I'll describe properly :) 

For now, I'll only leave you this quote I wrote on my moleskine, hope you like it ! Wish you best last days of school, if this is an unusual wish..well I'm original ! Ahah 

Made with iPhone 4S 

My photography story .

I do not consider myself a photographer. I don't have a personal facebook page or a personal website, i think i'm not that good and famous to do that. This is why i don't understand why people that just buy a good camera just feel like they must have their name written on pictures that represents nothing (as lookbook with friends) and when they hit 100 likes on facebook on some of their ''artistic pictures'' they think that is time to create their own page to sadisfied all their fans!

In my opinion...this is not how it should work. I'm okay with people that buy SLR cameras, and i like the fact they try to use them as much as they can. I think that those people, at the same time, connect the idea of a good camera with the hability of a photographer. 

The pictures are the result of both; camera and who's behing the camera. Starting with this idea i approached to the world of photography. 

Everything started when a friend of mine, Ilaria, used to upload really good pictures on Netlog, and since the fact we all wanted to look good on social networks' pictures, we went out once with her to have nice portraits to upload! When i saw her camera i fell in love with it. It was much bigger than my parents one (an average compact camera), I noticed how good the pictures were in terms of quality, everything was looking way better on the screen with that camera. I started dreaming about getting one but that was when i was 14. After two years, in which i used to take macro pictures on every single family trip and than modify them using 'picnick' online, i finally got my Canon 1000D. That was an awesome christmas. I started taking pictures everywhere. I tried to avoid pictures of myself in the mirror holding my camera or pictures of friends of mine while they were in unnatural position, dressed in a better way than the average. 

After one year i decided that i didn't want to keep taking pictures with automatic settings and that's when i started following some lessons made by a photography association (Contrasti). Those 10 evenings helped me a lot in a technical way but also when it came to understand what kind of pictures i like to take.

I worked a couple of time in discos for events, same for big birthdays...but it just does not satisfy me enough. Yesterday i was working in Perugia at an 18bday party. Well the picture i like the most is one of the cake. I can't stand average birthday pictures with people with fake smile on, just standing there hoping for me to catch their best expression. Althought this is the kind of photo i do not like, is the easiest one to gain money, and that's why i accept everytime people ask me to do that. Oh i forget to say, i also took pictures for a football team for a couple of months...and that was sooo boring. 

In any case, i realised what i like to take pictures of when i was doing the things i love the most in the world; travelling. The lovest thing i could do while i'm abroad is to visit some place i've never been before taking pictures with all the kalm of the world, studying what i like the most about that place and than trying to capture it. 

I do love street photography. From the details of the cities, to the compositions of shapes you can find in the organization of a shop, the expression of the faces of subjects i don't know and i never will...eveyrthing looks so perfect and fascinating without being forced, it's all natural. 

This is what i like about photography; find harmony where you can.

I'm going to post below my favourite picture. I took this photo one year ago while i was in summer holiday in Holland, more precisely on Utrecht. I wanted to focus on a bike wheels but i had the luck to capture the exact moment in which every wheels of the street were on the same line. This creates this tunnel of circles that i absolutely love. I'm so proud of this work of mine!

My Flickr; http://www.flickr.com/photos/federicaz/

I have a Canon 1000D
Lenses; 18-55mm (Canon)
70-300mm (Sigma)


I'm going to buy my first tripod on amazon soon, just a cheap one (it's the first) and i'm thinking about a 50mm for portraits or a big flash for when i work at parties

Hey hey !

I can't believe i finally started writing! I honestly thought i was never going to do this.

Let's start with a presentation (not too full, not a small introductions ;) ).

My name is Federica and as you can tell from it i'm italian. I live in the center of my country, so i'm not any close to big cities (Rome is the closest 2h30 with car) and in my region we don't have sea! yay!

I'm 18 and on the 12nd of September i started my fifth and last year of high school. You may think i had to repeat the year, well no i've never had it's just that school in italy is one year longer! If you're shocked for this well wait to hear this; I don't have a proper weekend because we have always had school on saturday!

My high school focuses on the study of languages and that's why at the end of my 5 years i'm supposed to be talking in a good way english, french, german and italian ofc. I tried myself to leanr dutch and spanish but..yeah i was not that constant with the study, but i think that, at least for spanish, i could have make it.

For this interest i have in language i'm also a travels lover! I like travelling more than anything else and i think that to leave in Europe is the best thing that ever happened to me because i can fly everywhere and see a thousand things without even being on the other side of the globe. I've also been there..in Australia i mean. Last summer i went there and it was amazing. The things that i like the most about travelling, except for the new places to see and the new faces of people, are the pictures i take. Yes, i like photography, I got a Canon1000D (3 years old..i love that baby!) and every picture i take is a memory and i can't delete any of them (and that's why i finally bought an external memory ahah).  In my future i see myself teaching italian abroad, probably in Germany, and i'll work hard to do this !!

I'm a really talkative person and i think that it may be cool and usefull to write here what happens in my life and what i think about several topics; i said usefull because i think this is just the most perfect way that i have to wreake out all the thoughts i have in my mind .

And today, 11st October, that's where i start my journey! I'm apoligizing in advance for all the grammar mistakes and all the repetition i'll do but remember...i'm just SUPPOSED to be good at english at the end of school ahah kidding, i also want to improve so please, correct me :)

Remember; Life is a game we play! 

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