My first time Yesterday I made the first web conversation with a new italki friend, it was so interesting, so exciting!!!! I called from Italy, he from New Jersey! So I took a look about technology, today everything seems so normal but it isn't ... People say a lot of bad things about the web but they don't understand the web powerful ... I'm 53 years old and I remember the school research on paper encyclopedias, the difficulty to call each other: if something happened (car crash, out of gas, for example) you had to find a phone booth. And you had not phone token, sure. Now you have your masterpiece handyphone so the web is in your hands: one second to find rescue, help or what you need! I belong to an other generation but I love technology so much, I love so much the news. I belong to an other generation, it's true, but I try to maintain the young mind and heart and I wonder how when I was a child. So I live at peace my current time, I don't regret my past but I love the future. Am I too much optimist? I can't live in other way. Maybe my electronic watch ... has stopped! Stefano Sergi Livorno, Italy

English, beautiful language! I begun to learn English at elementary school: my teacher was a pioneer!!! So I continued at school only but no practise in real world. Now I understand what I lost, the time is so different and English is fundamental more and more. My daughter nine years old is studying in a international address school (is it correct?) and I hope this will be better in a global world! So I tried to remedy, never too late LOL!! The middle age, my age, is very interesting on my own: if you have health, you have life experience, you have chilometers in your shoes but much street before eyes. And what marvelous world we live in! Yes I know the human kind have a lot of problems but have a lot of resources nevertheless! The web is a dream, trust me, I know the time where you need phone boot to call anybody, the computer was only a box, the knowledge only in books. Sure the medal is double face but I want to see the glass as half full I'm an optimist, there is the only way to life, I think so; the story teaches us what was the past (see the One Hundred European War) ... And change subject, I started to cultivate music study, so I think English is perfect; musical, full of perfect accented word and short ones, and so on. As Louis Armstrong said: "What a wonderful world" ... I think he have got it, I agree at 100%. Stefano Sergi Italy

Third Tipe ... Contacts!!!! Ok, let's start with my terrible English ... First difficult: I think in italian then translate but that's it, sigh! My goal it's very very difficult; I'm interested in music (hobby only) so I decided to write English lyrics ... rather, I decided to try it!!! Casually I found this site so I told myself: why not? And so I'm here!!!