The Italian Voice

This morning, the news in the Italian edition of the Yahoo home page shows a recurring fear for the citizens of the Neapolitan gulf: the Vesuvio volcano scares again.

It is what some Italian and French scientists affirm, in a research of Bruno Scaillet at the Geological Sciences Institute in Orléans which has been published by the English scientific journal called “Nature“: the Vesuvio could suddenly awaken and explode in a violent and devastating eruption such as the one which occured in 79 A.D.

photo by puntasolchiaro

After the disasters which covered the cities of Pompeii and Ercolano in 79 A.D., the volcano had a milder activity, especially from 1631 to 1944 when its last eruption was noticed.
Now, after 64 years of silence, the scientists assert that this period could be due to the replenishment of the magma chamber, which in fact turns out to be occluded, creating in this way a sort of lid which causes a dangerous growing pressure.

During the last decades, a lot of studies have been completed about a possible eruption of the Vesuvio and the situation seems to be under control.
From my point of view, the best is always to rely on the experts who will surely be able to inform people in time in case of emergency and evacuation.
For now the citiziens who live in the surrounding areas do not need to be alarmed. Anyway, I totally understand their desire to live next to the volcano; I have been there once some years ago, as well as in Catania in Sicily which is situated just under the Mt Etna, and I miss the fantastic climate and the special atmosphere which you can breath when you are there!

P.S. Today I want to remember the victims of the attacks in Sept. 11th, 2001, I clearly remember that day and those moments because I lived them in front of the tv, as I was there by chance after the morning shift at the fruits & vegetables shop which I used to manage with my ex boyfriend. God bless the whole world.

I also want to report that I found a job as cashier and merchandiser in my town, I guess I will start to work at the beginning of the next week. Yay, thanks a lot for your wonderful support, I love you all!

I decided that I have mulled over too much, now I want to react, even if my boyfriend and I will be in the distance at least for a while, even if nothing is ok for us yet, even if I have to do something which I never imagined to do here once again.
I want to stop crying, I already did it for 8 consecutive days, and I want to roll up my sleeves while waiting to change things and have my life with my boyfriend back (I really hope so).
I also want to stop telling a lot about this situation, because I have the fear that something could be misunderstood, like in fact happened some days ago.

I prepared my CV, I asked myself what will be my ideal job in this situation and I started to send my application to some agencies, supermarkets and ipermarkets which offer a job as merchandiser.

Fortunately my mother has a very kind friend who works for a supermarket of the same chain for which I worked some years ago, she wants to tell about me at the director so that maybe he will be able to offer me a position soon, it would be great!
That friend works during night shifts and I must admit that I would appreciate the same hours, as I am almost used to be awake during nights, especially in this period with this love difficulty, and as it would allow me to be free during the days and maybe also to reach my boyfriend more than what I could do with day shifts.

I started to remember that I loved that period in 2004 during which I worked as cashier into an ipermarket near Bologna, I worked only 18 hours per week receiving a nice salary and everything I did in addition was all cashed as overtime, it was wonderful!!

Cashes at the ipermarket where I used to work in 2004 and
where I sent my application again in these days (my own shot)

I know it will be hard to meet my boyfriend a very few times per month or maybe only once or nothing at all, but I totally trust in him and I know he loves me, I am sure that he knows what to do with time to avoid to force the situation, especially with his family.
Anyway, I hope he will really be able to give me another chance soon, that is why I want to wait and to “follow his rules”, showing him that I am judicious and adult, I hope that this good behaviour will pay me in the future, I really love my boyfriend and I want a future with him.

Well, I just realized that probably titled this entry in the wrong way, because nowadays the young Italians do not care much about love; if they do not have what they want, they immediately look for it somewhere else, they do not fight but, on the contrary, they choose the easiest way to be happy, which is often a fake happiness.

Sometimes I think to be very different from the major part of the young ones, I am a sort of “old fashioned” girl, the first and most important valour for me is LOVE LOVE and LOVE again, in every form, for my point of view without it I am nothing, we are nothing!!

So please, wish me good luck with the job, but especially with love, I am determined to resist and struggle because I totally love!!

Italians are very keen about photography, we love to take pictures of what we see and what we like, so much that the act of flipping through the pages of the albums becomes a real passion and a vital sharing moment for families.

That is why I strongly believe in the union Italians-scrapbooking.

This “meeting” is happening in these last years, but we’re quite far from the other Countries with that fabulous hobby.

Anyway, it is showing a growing interest and I am sure that it will gain ground quickly, because it offers a great chance to preserve memories and even to work in that field (I am one of the ones who wanted to take that job opportunity as scrapbooking consultant immediately thanks to a wonderful Italian company so, if you are in Italy and are interested in creative meetings, markets, weekends, I will be really happy to see you where you are and to show you our great products, to suggest very nice ideas for your pages and albums and even to offer you the same opportunity to work for us if you live in Italy, simply contact me via email).

I would have so much to say about scrapbooking, it emotionally affected my life and I guess it will never leave me, I am also affecting my friend with my crazy addiction, so I will surely have the chance during the next months.

As today I am already quite in a hurry, even if it is only 6 am, because my boyfriend is coming home for his couple of days off, I will not be able to write so much, but I certainly want to show you a layout which I created about the 13 points about How to know that you live in Bologna, do you remember my entry?
Well, that entry inspired me this page:

I used two nice postcards of my capital of province, some flowers in tissue and felt, some glitter powder, doodlings, some paper clips, some letters of the alphabet in die cut style and so on.

Enjoy and I will talk to you later about my great hobby and activity, my friends. Ciao!!

There are places which you can not forget.

For me one of those places is one which I could not imagine to remember and miss: the building of my high school.

I have always lived in a small town in province of Bologna, called Medicina; when I started to attend the high school, I had to decide between the one in Bologna and the one in Lugo, in province of Ravenna.
I chose the second one because I was too young to walk alone along the streets of a big city. I chose the second one because my friends decided for it too. I chose the second one because everybody told that it was great for a nice career.
Onword I realized that I chose the wrong one, because it was not the right school for my own dreams, but I always remember those years like some of the most beautiful ones of my young life.

So I ended up attending the high school for accountants in Lugo, after the meeting of the pre-enrolment for students at the junior high school.

I must say that, if I was asked to decide just after the first glimpse, I would never have chose that one.
The building impressed me, but surely not for its outer face: the walls were azure-blue and pink !!
I could imagine everything but missing that high school, but hey..it is the truth and also because if its walls!

You have to know that the building was entitled to Mr Giuseppe Compagnoni, I had never known nothing about this man until that moment, but I quickly discovered that he suggested the adoption of the Italian flag as national Italian flag on January 7th, 1797.
It is very cool, do not you think?

Mr Giuseppe Compagnoni

Since that moment, I appreciated that high school ever more.

Now at the least, after my long preamble, are you curious enough to have a look at a small picture of the odd building where I spent five years of my life studying, waiting for a better one which I will take soon just on-the-spot?
Enjoy and leave your unmerciful comments, hihihi!

I.T.C. G. Compagnoni in Lugo
(province of Ravenna)

It’s hard to leave Bologna and its area, I am starting to take shots of every corner to create a scrapbook to take with me in my future city, just to remember the beautiful places of my homeland.

Today I will do something which I did not do for long time.
I will take a bus from my town to reach my mother in front of her working place and we will spend a couple of hours together, taking the chance to do shopping and to look for furnitures for my new flat.

I think that my passion for Bologna started when I was a child.

shot by sem07

On Saturdays I had to attend school, but I remember that sometimes my mother kept me home to go for walks somewhere and to spend special mornings together.
That “somewhere” was often the weekly market in Bologna.

My mother used to attend the high school in that city when she was young, so I guess that Bologna had the same effect on both of us, it is cosmopolitan, each corners has something to discover, but at the same time it is well livable and handy.

In those Saturday mornings with my mother, we used to go downtown to see the pigeons in the main square, like every other kid I wanted to feed them, to play running towards them and to have fun; then we always walked along the tiny streets weekly market made my stands which were placed one opposite to the others and vice versa, looking at the sold seasonal clothing and stuffs, tasting sometimes a piadina romagnola or a pizza from the wonderful take-away called “Altero“.

shot by Semi93

I loved so much those special moments in Bologna that, when I was teenager and used to come home from the high school in Lugo (province of Ravenna), sometimes I wanted to continue the route by bus until Bologna, to spend the afternoon looking at the beautiful shop windows, enjoying some relaxing moments into the Park of the Montagnola, buying new books and stationery stuffs and so on.

Well, I really look forward to live again my memories of teenage today, some hours and my mind will be carried back in time, how exciting!

Do you have memories which are linked to special places of your teenage too?