Who are you? “Who are you? Who are you?” “Uhm...I don’t know, I’m confused…I don’t remember nothing, I’m feel bad. Who am I? where am I? Please man, help me. Who am I? who?” “I can’t help you. Only you can know the right answer. Are you a student? Are you a Muslim Imam? A Italian seeman? or a monkey? Only you can help yourself. Who are you?” “Man, please I said you that I’m confused. I can guess but I don’t know which is the right answer. I look…I look, nothing man. I look nothing. I can only hear you but I look all black around me. I afraid. Who are you? Please man, help me. Help me!” “I’m your soul man. Wake up, it’s late. Wake up man and remember, you are only a man. You are only a man!!!”

Thanks Italki When I singed up on Italki I thought that I will never know people because I had bad experience with this social, instead I knew an indonesian boy. I'm glad to knew him because he is cheerful, funny and very smart. Now I call him almost every day with skype and we chat for hours. Sometimes we talk in english, other times in italian. He speak very well english and thanks him I improve so much my english. I hope that in future I know in person him and our friendship never end. This experience is very important for me; I don't love to learn new languages then I have many problem to learn them, but talking with other person permits to love and appreciate this language. I would have never thought to say that: I love english and i love talk in this language.

Fantacalcio Day (Fantasy Football) Today is one of the most important days of year. Preparation began one week ago. I learned, I studied, I prepared tactics. It's Fantacalcio Day. Since when I'm only a child fantacalcio is a ritual. Every year, in one the first days of September, I and my childhood friends meet for playing It. It is very simple, everyone have a personal team and 800 points. With this point we have to buy football players for creating a personal team. To buy players is many simple and funny: the league president read players in order of position and if I want buy a player I made an offer. If another coach want buy the same player is necessary to do an auction sale. Every coach must choose 3 goal keeper, 8 defenders, 8 Midfielder and 7 Forward. After the president draw the schedule. Before the match of Serie A (the italian football league) I have to choose the first string and reserve. At the and of football matches day every player receive a vote and someone also a bonus/malus point. If my total point is highest than my rival I win the match and reiceve 3 points. If it is the same I reiceve 1 point, if I lose not one. At the last of Seria A the team with more point win Fantacalcio. The last year I arrived third. I love it!

Life is experience From I'm only a child I ever considered the August like the last month the year. Maybe because all restart. I ever thought that this is the month of changes, even positive that negative. Changes that permits to teach something for all the life. This is the experience. This years seems different respect of the other, but at last even this years I learn something. Life is experience.

A bad moment Thursday I ended to work and I staycation until Saturday. In this days finally I can relax with musics, books and go out with my friends. I fell a strange sensation and the last Moby's cd called Innocents represent my current mood. I afraid to the future, I afraid of myself...so I afraid. Like We are the result of our action. According to the Buddhism We are the result of our action, but is It true? I'm agree but sometimes I observe that if I have a good behavior the life haven't a good behavior to me. It's normal to fight for achieveing a objective but It's no normal that my way is full of obstacle. P.S. I say sorry for my vent.

My own reason The true reason because I want to learn English is that I think that the unknowledge of this lenguage It's a big limit . During all the school period I thought "It's not important to know English" and now, when I'm 26 years old I began to study it. But It's very hard shared the time between study and work and I trust that the results It's no good. In fact I decided to reduced my hour work to twelve hours for dedicate more time to study. The life is really strange and I was a very stupid teen

Talk about your city pt 2 Naples is a strange city with much identity. Holy and profane, rich and poor, ancient e modern. In a few word Naples is the city of contradictions. The origins of Naples is antique. It was founded in the 8 century BC and called Parthenope like the name of a famous Magna Greacia mermaid. But the first village is too small for hosting all the people and they founded a new village called “Neapolis” (New City, now Naples). Even through there are many bulding of greek and roman age, in fact the city has the classical roman city planning with a central road that we call “Spacca Napoli” (break Naples), the city obtained the best development only after the 1302 with the Kingdom of Naples (later, in 1816 was unify like the Kingdom of Sicily with the name of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). This were beautiful and rich centuries. There were more steelworks factory and we were famous for the production of porcelain (Capodimonte Porcelain) and the texile industry. Here was built the first Italian railway (Nola – Portici) and the first Italian steamboat. Furthermore during this period more doctor, poet, painter and musicians come in Naples. But now, after the foundation of Kingdom of Italy, more things changed and more of this activities closed. In fact in the south of Italy much people doesn’t’ feel Italian because we have a different culture, story and language and if you walking in the streets of South Italy cities you can find the flag of the old kingdom. Even through I live in the suburb, Luckily my family originating from the historical center of the city and the we are much tie to it. I remembered that when I’m only a child my grandfather took me in center and every times he took me to the Fontanelle Cemetery. Here there are the bones and the skulls to the people that died during the big bubonic plague of 1656 and cholera in 1836. We are more religious and the people choose, adopt and protect a skull, that correspond to a soul, in change of a miracle.

Talk about your city pt 1 Yesterday I talked with my English teacher and she gave me an homework: write about your city. In this days I will post part of my article. Talking about my city for me is very hard. I shall want to write more thing but I don’t want to do a simply description of It. I live in the north suburb of Naples, in a quarter called Scampia. Unfortunately It is famous for the decay and the high level of criminality caused by the trade of drugs. But after the last cammora’s feud finished in 2005, the state and Nonprofit organization are fighting for improve the quarter. In fact now the sale of drugs is decrease and the police closed some leave structure where the drugs addict went for druging, and the next year the university of Naples Federico 2° will open a new university branch. Lately the Italian digital satellite television SKY make a television series based to the book "Gomorra" of Roberto Saviano. I think that this serial give an horrible idea of Scampia and that incite to the violence because the main charachter seem immortal. I’m proud and happy to live here even through It don’t offer me more opportunity because It permits me to discovery the real value of life and to never give up. This is two photo of Scampia

Near/close to/by I have a doubt. I don't understand which word I have to use between near, close and by. What is the difference between their? I live near sea I live close to sea I live by sea Thanks for the anwers