A Night With Friends

Tonight I went out with Gerardo, Marco and Ilenia. We have been were at the Due Spade, which is a bar in Pogliano Milanese, where we had decided to spend a nightthe evening.[Dire "spend a night" vuole dire dormire al luogo] We got together in Parabiago at half past nine in the evening and we settleddecided [per usare "settled" si deve scrivere un po' della trattativa] to leave my car there. We got oin Gerardo's car and we drove to Pogliano Milanese. We parked in front of the Due Spade and we walked into the Pub. There were differentvarious tables in the bar and also outdoors. We headed toward the open space and we sat inat a table in front of the rear door. The ambientance was good and dozens of people were sitting at the tables. We started to have a chat and Ilenia began talking about our friend's relationship with a guy whose name is Marco. She told us details of our friend's affairs and I was surprised at how many personal things she knew about them,. While she was telling us the story, we sometimes laughed because it was really funny. In the meantimewhile we ordered some drinks: a beer for Marco, a mojito for Gerardo, a weisse beer for Ilenia and a coke for me. Ilenia drank the beer very slowly,. itShe took an hour-and-a-half to finish it while we terminated soon finished off our drinks. I was having a look at the tables nextar to ours when I suddenly saw three of my friends: Ivan, Omar and Simone. I interrupted Ilenia and I asked them the permission to go to greet my friends,. tThey said it was ok, and I went to my friends' table. I salutedgreeted them and I started to talk about Saturday night. We decided that we would have meet at nine o'clock in the evening. I returned to my table and the conversation was going oncontinuing, so I asked my friends at what time they wanted to leave and they replied to me:[Non è necessario dire "to me," "replied" è basta] "at half-past twelve".  [Le correzione continuano, il prossimo messaggio.]

A Night With Friends

I should explain one of my corrections. I corrected the following:

I asked my friends at what time they wanted to leave...

It is grammatically correct to write "at what time," however this sentence represented dialog, and Americans tend to omit prepositions at the begining of a phrase when speaking. In fact, it is more likely that they would say "what time do you want to leave at?" leaving a dangling preposition, than that they would say "at what time do you want to leave?" Of course, some speakers who are concerned about grammar might say "At what time do you want to leave?" In fact, I might say that myself.

I relaxed and I began to ask questions but I noticed theat Marco gotwas worried and I couldn't understand why. I asked him: "Marco what's going on?" and he replied to me: "I'm just getting drunk": So I thought that probably he didwasn't get worried and he was just a bit drunk. I tried to think toabout other things and I looked at other tables again,. tThere were lots of people of about twenty years old who were drinking beer, girls who were flirting with other guys, and waiters thatwho were walking fast through the Pub. I couldn't see a person like me, I mean a person who didn't drink alcohol. I got tired and I asked my friends if it was possible to go home. They replied: "Yes, of course!". And we directheaded toward the car park just in front of the pub where we talked about our holidayvacations,.[vacations=gli Stati Uniti, holidays=Inghilterra, io faccio sempre le correzione americane] wWe got oin Gerardo's car and we drove to Parabiago. [italki non permette i testi così lungo, dunque devo fare le correzione in due posti, allora è meglio che scrivi due diversi posti corti.]