positiveness

why does everything seem so much better when the sun is shinning?

milan is getting more and more pleasant by the day. it is not that gray dead city anymore and i am discovering now faster than before more and more things to do around. it is so true that six months are not enough to discover a lifestyle so different from what you have been used to before.

now time is going by faster, only about 4 months left and i remember perfectly thinking in the beginning: one down ten to go. now 4 months seem so little to do all the things i still want to do. so many places to see still, so many people to meet, so many clubs to discover :-p

well, the italian machine is working. after more than half the time i will stay here, now they finally finished fixing my bathroom and the common areas and repainting the rooms. ahaha. it's good, i can't complain.


also, yesterday we went to a party in the open that the community organized for young people. the purpose was sustainability and saving the environment but they had a dj games and other fun stuff. i think we should do more stuff like this in the US. plus all parties in milan and clubs have all the music that's on my computer. I love it.

la vita italiana

i shower my hair with UltraDOLCE
body wash is NeutroRoberts
brush my teeth with AlfaZetta
wash my clothes with AceGentile and OminoBianco (ok sometimes :-p )

i eat Tortellini con carne e formaggio, biscotti di MullinoBianco, Parmegiano Regiano, Vino Rosso di tavola, panini con pomodoro e mozarella, all of Kinder chocolates, prosciutto, and a lot of other quite greasy and fattening things but i am still not gaining any kilos. love it!

i am quite happy to have avoided the north polar climatic phenomena of Chicago this year, really hope next one is warmer.

one very exciting thing!! ***fashion week*** starts in milan this week! i am going to try my best to go sneak into one of the runway shows and be with the bold and the fabulous... hmm *crossed fingers*.


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on another topic, i am scared to go back to school in chicago. i don't want to get killed while sleeping in my history class by a depressed and frustrated student who got a gun really easily at one of the many stores around. i can not even start to think of what all those families must be going through...





















one big emptiness for all the bad thoughts. i hope the killings stop here and american society finally realizes something needs to be done soon. stop selling guns maybe? sounds like a good start...

nuovo post

wow it's been exactly a month since i last wrote on here. vacation has been in the way but mainly lack of inspiration.


spain and sweden were gorgeous. seeing the guys from chicago was even more fun. it made me realize that they are still the same waiting there for me to get back and i am probably the only one changing from this trip. that took a huge anxiousness away because i don't think i have changed that much and it's relieving to know you will go back to the old safe place and back to your normal settled life.


i miss "same". i miss not having change. i miss sleeping in the same bed for more than a month straight. in between hostels, my room, paulina's apartment, montse's apartment, mimmi's place, eve's room, i can barely say i wake up in the same bed twice. ahahha i exaggerate.

i have probably traveled more than i will ever travel in my life again. it's fun but also exhausting. i decided that it is no good to travel for two weeks non stop and that the maximum traveling time from now on will be one week with going back to milan stop after it. showering and changing clothes is very important.

other than that, there is a restoration project going on in my bathroom now in the dorm. they have decided to redo the old bathroom that needed fixing since 1997. aparently, it takes 11 years for italian bureaucracy to get moving. not bad, i was expecting worse. i think i owe to put a little preview of what is going on every morning starting 8:30 am. hopefully it won't last longer than the promised maximum of ten days.

exams coming up full speed with me needing to do things for iit also so i can have a more comfortable year when i go back. what i mean by that is apply for:

- leadership academy scholarship

- RA (hopefully they take me again)

- some job to be able to live and go out :-p

i also applied at the supermarket here in milan that is so close to the dorm. perfect weekend job for some extra money. *crossed fingers*


next trip outside of italy seems to be france in march. we'll get to see some more iit-ers that are there for the semester and of course beautiful paris, toulouse and lyon. in between i will probably go to turin (capital of design for 2008!!?!) and florence where ernest resides now. probably some other italian cities, too. if anything, after this trip i will know italy on the tip of my fingers. (i know i am forgetting to speak proper english...i will correct my expressions later)


seems like i am going to albania, too. which i thought i would not do but my brasilian suitemates want to go and i havent been there in 11 years almost (as long as this bathroom has to be fixed lol) so i wouldn't mind giving them a tour. i have to rediscover it myself. i am kind of excited about that actually, i might find out why i liked it when i was there.