First notebook Hi! my name's Roberto. I'm 24 years old, and I am a Jazz Guitar player. I live in Italy, exactly near Matera, but also I work in Bari. Matera is a fantastic City. Do you know that It is one of the oldest city of the world? Here were live non-stop since from paleollithic! The storic centre of it was excavated close to a cliff, it takes a name of "Sassi di Matera" (when it filmed "the passion" of Mel Gibson"). Sassi (translate: Stones) are two: the Sasso Barisano, and the Sasso Caveoso. they aren't a small stones, at the contrary they formed an complex urban core. In front of it, there is a immense natural background, called "parco della Murgia Materana", full of old rock churches scattered along the slipes. In the middle of these there are the "Gravina" river, that excavates the rock during thousands and thousands of yers, thus creating a very very high cliff! Matera was also proclaimed "World Heritage" from Unesco in 1993. I'm happy to be Italian, but especially for the people that live in the southem Italy as me, It is very difficult to find somebady to talk english everyday. This people live as in a "closed ball", and they think that they needn't to know English. In fact I see many emberrassing scenes between a turists and commercian in which they don't undestand theyself! the people of my land is very quite and good, only defect is that sometimes they aren't more "open-minded"!