Sunday catch up.

Good afternoon everyone! I finally found some spare minutes to dedicate to my blog... The weeks pass quickly and I've noticed that I haven't been able to put more than 1 post a week recently.. That's sad, but here in Sicily, it's all about summer: the tourists come in summer and so do the American students who come to my school... Right now, for example we have a special program whose main subject is Nutrition in Italy. It's all about the way the Italians eat, what they eat, why they eat it, is what they eat healthy or not (comparing...

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Miscellaneous...

This weekend was really crazy! Because of some emergencies at school I didn't sleep as much as I wanted to but I went to see the closing ceremony of the Taormina Fest and I must say I was nicely surprised and slightly disappointed at the same time. It was quick (35mins) and quite formal. No "red carpet" shots, they showed directly the ceremony and the opening short film was really amateur... On the other hand I liked the girl who conducted it and the interpreter was a professional. Jessica Lange received a "Taormina Art Award" which...

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Taormina Film Fest 2009

Wow, I dreamt about Cannes, Venice and Los Angeles without even considering Taormina which is only 1.5 h away from where I live now! The event, despite its 55 years of history, has never reached the prestige and splendour of the other European film festivals. Well, I have a feeling this year is going to become a turning point in its career... Let me just mention some of the names of starts who will take part during the event: Catherine Deneuve, Jessica Lange, Emanuel Ungaro (who is going to give a lecture on the importance of fashion in movies) or Sandra Bullock (who couldn't make it for the opening but who has sent a video...

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Greek Theatre.

So I haven't been blogging/commenting on your posts recently and as you can imagine it's all because of work and the tremendous confusion we're having in this period. Fortunately this period is slowly coming to an end and even though the new students are coming at the end of June, this time they're going to be 55 instead of 104 which gives me some hope for less franatic days...Anyway, this week, apart from school, I went to the famous open air Greek Theatre. Ever since 1914 the theatre is the location for famous ancient tragedies for...

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Where do you want to live?

The Economist has just published the ranking of top cities with the highest liveability. It turned out that 6 cities (!!) in Canada and Australia are in the top ten! Unbelievable.There were 140 cities (worldwide) taken under consideration. Each city was assigned a score for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories:stability health care culture and environment education infrastructureThe categories provide an overall rating of 1–100, where 1 is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal.It turns...

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Stars sans fards?

I don't like to be repetitive but couldn't really not talk about all this Photoshop/make-up craziness one more time.Do you often go out without a trace of make up? I do. I'm quite tired of putting it everyday during weekdays for work and so I try wearing none (or almost none) during the weekends. I like my face to breathe and look natural, especially now, when the sun is high up in the sky and my complexion start to obtain this natural-peach colour without any particular effort. Of course I put some bronzer in the evening but in general,...

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A message of light.

According to Wikipedia: Enel (Ente Nazionale per l'Energia eLettrica) is an Italian energy provider and the third largest energy provider in the world (includes 22 countries now). It has just launched a new spot:At first I didn't really understand it, then after having seen it a few times in a row on YouTube, it just dawned on me: it's indeed a message of light! The girl sends a message to her Dad by turning on the light in her bedroom and with luck and help of other people it finally arrives at the destination: her Dad in the end says: "Buonanotte anche a te" ("Goodnight to you too"). I was enchanted! It's so sweet: the...

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Manga.

I'm not a fan of Manga. Never was really. From the characters I can name only Picacchu (do I spell it correctly?) and of course there was Dragon Ball! Then I saw this funny website where you can actually "create" your own character. I must say I had a lot of fun doing it : ) This is the result:Try yourselves, it takes only few minutes and you can use it as your profile picture : ) I'd love to see your Mangatars!! :...

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