Day 2- A quiet and lonely Sunday Every week all of us face each single day of the week with the hope that the week-end come as soon as possible, just for enjoing our time with the family, friends or simply for relaxing ourself. Living far away from everyone of my family, the weekends are becoming days as others, actually the sooner they end, the better. Anyway I'm not here to complain, as well as I don't want to write a moving novel, therefore let's talk about the beautiful things I've done today :) (Is it a bit ironic?) Starting from the fact that last night I fell asleep quite late (it was about 2 a.m) so this morning I would have been much more time in my warm bed, however I decided to go to mass in a church which is just in front of my house. I haven't been going to mass for several months, and frankly speaking I have to say that going to mass makes me feel much better. The streets here in Genoa were more crowded than as usual today, because my house is just beside the Genoa Stadium and today there was an important football match there. I have been in that stadium once, my team Naples played against Genoa, so I could do no better than go there to support my team , and I'd say it was a great experience even though the match ended 0-0. After the mass I have taken a stroll to Decathlon, which is a sporting items store, and to be sincere, there's nothing I like better than spend some time in that store, I really enjoy it. After lunch and after having studied a bit of English I have watched some Serie A football games just before falling asleep for a regenerative nap. That was my Sunday, nothing special but this is a lesser fact. Have a nice Sunday night guys, Bye, Danilo.

Day 1 - Pushing up ourself Many cultured people who have experience in learning foreign languages state that the best way ever to memorize new words or just expand our own vocabulary is using those words or expressions in a real context so that they can be inside a network where it can be easier to find them and afterwards memorize them. I have been studying English for one year and a half which is not a long time actually. You might say that English is also studied at school, well, you're right but you have to know that in Italy the way of learning English at school is not as really effective as you might think. Ok, we have an English class since the secondary school, we do tons of grammar rules and exercises, during high school we do as many but we don't really use the language in the real life, no listening, no speaking, no practice, ever. So much so that at the end of the story if you don't practice the language by yourself you will risk to be out of the school with an incredible gap in the English language, and nowadays it is something that a fresh graduate who is approaching to the world of work can't afford. I think the issue is that for the Italian school system English is seen so much as a way to give us a breakthrough in our future professional career but as simply a subject as math, physics, and so on. To make things worse there's the fact that during my engineering classes at University I have completely left the language in every his aspect. Fortunately I opened my eyes and a light bulb lighted on just on time, and thank to the Erasmus experience in UK during the last year at University I had the opportunity to be in touch with the Language for about 9 months and afterwards I kept on practicing English up to now. However, so much for my path in mastering the language, the road is still long but I am not as panicked as I was before. From now on I thought about writing on this space to directly use the new words that I will come across during this fantastic journey, as I have done today, where I used as much as twenty new words. :) Bye, and thank you for attention!

Have you ever spotted an opportunity? Naples 25 January 2016 I am going to describe how I spotted the opportunity to get an Erasmus Scholarship.I saw an advertise on the website of my university about the possibility of doing the master's degree thesis in England,at Cranfield University precisely, one of the most important university in the United Kingdom. The desire of facing a new challange in my life prompted me to apply for that scholarship. I thought it would have been an important experience to know better myself and to test my capability of living abroad and working in a multicultural environment. My academic results allowed me to get that opportunity but my strong ambition was definitely the main factor which brought me to win.I can say that my pigheadedness and my ambition helped me throughout my life to reach all goals I accomplished so far.

A great idea came out ! I've carried out my Masters Degree Thesis at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. After about 3 months spent studying the essential theory on the topic of my thesis which was focused on the global warming concern and on the study of novel technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.However I needed to start with the experimental work because my time at Cranfield was limited and I wanted to complete everything before going back to Italy. Nevertheless my supervisors did not know what actually I should have done. So I've decided to take a my own decision about what and how the experimental work had to be carried out. Reading a lot of scientific papers,one day, I found out that in literature there were no studies about application of a particular compound such as calcium oxide concerning the technology I was studying, although it had all the requirements to be used. At that point, immediately I decided to talk to my supervisor about the idea of doing experiments using that kind of compound and luckily he was so glad to support me to find out more about the opportunity to carry out that kind of work.I approached that challange with enthusiasm and sure to do it well.In the end it was the best choice since I successfully completed my work at Cranfield with a positive feedback of all the people in my group research and I also realized a dream of writing along with my supervisors a scientific paper submitted to the scientific journal “Energy Technology “ totally based on the work I did there and I am so proud of this.