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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The National Route 2014 .

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So, since when I was 8 years old I've been a scout. Not a ''boy scout'' as we're called worldwide, but just a scout. I started because my parents were both scouts when they were younger, they both went in the group we have in Assisi and so did I when it came my time. After me my brother and all my 5 cousins started this journey.

 I spent 4 years with the ''Lupetti'' that is the first group in which you play, do several activities and slowly get involved in the mentality that is required to be a scout. You learn to share things, to help the others and when you finally think that you understand how this all system works, than you change group.

In fact, on the 2nd year of middle school, I started the ''Reparto'' that is another group that lasts for 4 years, that I left on my 2nd year of high school. Basically this is where the stereotype of the average scout is created. You walk a lot, you sell calendars and other things for charity (not biscuits, sorry!), you sleep in tents and you cook and eat on structures that you build with woods and ropes. Also in this case, when you know everything it's time to move on.

And here I am, at the end of my 3rd year of ''clan'', the last group in which you learn how to be yourself in society, to help the others out. 

I started this long journey, that can be defined as a lifestyle as well, back in 2003 I believe, and this year I had the opportunity to be part of one of the most amazing scout experience you can live: the National Route.

The ''vacation'' of 10 days you do when you're in the Clan, is called route, mainly because you walk, change location almost every night and you carry on your shoulder everything you need (the essential). It's a period that you spend with your group...but this year was different.

In 1975 there was the first National Route; all the Clans (or at least, the biggest part of them) that existed at the time in Italy, all went together in Route. In 1986 the same thing happened. And finally...after almost 30 years, in 2014 we had the opportunity to live this event on a National level.

We were 35.000 scouts, we were divided in 460 groups composed by guys from different Clans. Every group was composed by 70 to 60 people. From the 1st to the 5th of August, the different groups walked in different parts of Italy, on the 6th everyone traveled to San Rossore, a park near Pisa, and there we met, all 35.000 !

My group was the Route 190. My Clan hosted the others, this means that we walked and did our activities in the territory close to Assisi (where I live). The Clans that we hosted where from Alba, Cava dei Tirreni, Pescara and Gorizia. This last one is a city located on the bound between Slovenia and Italy, so they all speak fluently both Italian and Slovenian. We were in 67 and I miss every single person.

On the 6th all the buses left from a city close to Assisi, so we went there, traveled for 4h or so and finally arrived in the night in Pisa! And when we met all the other 35.000...well...let's say this picture doesn't give you the smallest idea of what it was!

I want to thank everyone! It was an amazing experience...and it makes me emotional to think that I was so lucky to be one of those people, one of those that had the opportunity to be part of such an amazing event!

Probably this blog post wasn't as interesting as you expected, it was different from what I normally write about. The quality of the pictures is not high, none of us had a DSLR camera ofc, and these are all photos taken by friends of mine. Hope you liked this post in any case, maybe you learned something new, who knows? If you're a little bit more interested in the event now, you can google and look for information and videos on YouTube about the event. There are lots of them, and they'll give you the idea of what it was better than all the words I wrote to describe it. Have a nice week everyone :)

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My future .

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As you may know if you read my introduction, i'm on my final year of high school here in Italy and on June, if everything goes for the best i'll have the final exam. If i'll pass it...i'll finally be out of high school..YAY! Differently from my english peers i won't have a gap year. Hold on, i lied..my english peers are already in Uni...dammit (My school lasts longer, don't worry i didn't have to repeat the year or anything else :P). In any case, i won't have any break between high school and Uni. I'll be over (hopefully) high school at the beginning of July and Uni starts in October. 

The biggest part of my classmates have no clue of what they want to do after school, what they want to become when they'll be adults. I personaly have a clear idea.

There were several situations/people who made me realize i wanted to become an italian teacher abroad, in particular in Germany, since the fact i love the language and the life over there, but also the Netherlands and England could be a good places...we'll see what life will give me.

When i had the exchange with the Netherlands on my 2nd year of high school, the teachers who was organizing the trip on the dutch side was a german woman who teached german (ofc) in Holland. That was amazing for me. A second exchange we had was with the far Australia (amazing experience btw) and when i realized that the girls our partners were studying italian at school i kinda understood that my language is not that bad for the other people in the world. With those girls we went in Perugia (a city here in italy, not so far from my small city) to take a short lessons at the Uni for foreign people who were trying to learn italian. That blow my mind ahah I know, it doesn't seem anything special but cmon when i say '' I would like to become an italian teacher abroad'' i feel so proud of myself!

Actually i'm still searching for the perfect Uni where to go. I got three options to reach my point

- Move to Germany > find a work > start talking a better german > get the lever C1 > get into Uni

- Move to Germany > find a Uni for foreing person > get into Uni

- Stay in Italy > get into Uni for foreign people in Perugia taking lessons to teach italian abroad for 3 years < forget German > move to Germany > get the level C1 > live there 

the last one is the easiest to study but the hardest to make it in germany, but i could make it anywhere else maybe...who knows. In any case, for now this is my plan. Last weekend i've been with my mum who went there for work in a lovely town in Germany called Wertheim. First of all let me tell you... i made amazing pictures. I had the opportunity to go around the village alone for the whole day, just me and my camera. And it was...fantastic! Perfect! But the main reason i went there was that i could use that short trip to collect as many information as i could for the Uni. I got something more than what i used to know before ofc and other information i will get in emails. 

Was nice to share with you this project of mine. I do know is not the easiest things to do and that i'm still young and bla bla bla but hey, LIFE IS A GAME WE PLAY and my parents support me in this so i'm really determinated at the moment.

What do you want to do with your life guys? let me know in the comment below! And if you have any advices for me...go on than! :)

I really like this picture i took in  a Café in Amsterdam last Summer after the Gay Pride Canal Parade. I've always liked it, it gives me the idea i have of Vintage, don't know why, maybe just because of the vinyl. Just wanted to share it :)
 you can find it on my Flickr page  http://www.flickr.com/photos/federicaz/