Is better to live in a House or an Apartment? Is better to live in a House or an Apartment? I live in an apartment with my mother, my father and my elder sister. The flat is quite big but we can’t afford the costs of a house. In fact living in an apartment have some disadvantages but also many advantages. If you live in a buildings with many flats sometimes it could happen you hear rumors from the above flats or loud speaking. We don’t have a yard with flowers where I can sit to read my books or take sunbathe. Besides we have just a garage even if we have two cars, so we have to leave a car on the street but it’s not a good thing, especially in winter when temperatures decrease and it is freezing and snowy. We have got a tiny cellar on the ground floor near the garage but my father would have a bigger one to put inside his tools. By the way living in a flat has several facilities as well. For example it is safer because if you are not at home and someone want to enter in your flat with bad intentions, it could happen that people who live in the flat above or under yours see them and call the police. Secondly if you need something you can ask help to people who live in your building and this make you feel more confident. Thirtly living in an apartment permit you to share the costs of the entire buildings, someone share central heating costs, someone else share garbage or condo costs. So in my opinion living in a flat is a good choice and if you haven’t got much money it could be a great opportunity.

“The importance of learning to play music” “The importance of learning to play music” I think everyone should learn to play a musical instrument. Firstly playing music is enjoyable for everyone: boys or girls, women or men. For example, you can start to play an instrument with your best friend when you are a child or you can chose learning to play music in your adulthood with the aim to join to the local band of your town. In fact several scientific researches have demonstrated that music makes you feel happier and energetic and at the same time it improves your concentration and enhance your sense of responsibility. Secondly it has been proved if a person learn to play an instrument during its primary school, it becomes a more intelligent and creative person. For this reason there are some mothers that listen music when they are pregnant because they thinks their babies can listen to it. Finally it should be remind a proverb that say: “passion is the salt of your life”. So I think it's important to remember whether you would like to play music, it's not relevant if you chose to play classical, rock or pop music, the essential thing is that you play with passion. Let your heart expresses itself.

“Eating habit now and in the past” “Eating habit now and in the past” Italy is known for its Mediterranean food and for the huge variety of ways it can be cooked. However I think in my country people eat worse then they did 50 years ago. Globalization has been a good invention but it brought several disadvantages too. Nowadays hardly anyone drinks water because almost everyone drink Cola or other unhealthy drinks full of sugar. Too much sugar causes diabetes and doctors are worried about the increasing of this kind of disease all over the world. Besides with the urbanization people have a demanding life, they pass lots of hours at work so for lunch usually they eat a sandwich or a slice of pizza with a Cola. Children love chips and crisp and in my opinion their parents permit them to eat junk food too often. This is one of the main cause of obesity. Moreover both adults and children don’t practice physical exercise and when they are free, they prefer to stay at home on the sofa and watching tv eating sweets. Another problem in my country is the processed food; now you can find it everywhere. One reason that people don’t eat vegetables and take less exercise is because of lifestyle changes, but this is not a good reason to not take care about our health. I love pizza, ice-cream and “carbonara spaghetti” too, so I don’t say we have to eliminate them but just to pay attention on quantity of this kind of food we eat every day and, of course, go out for a walk at least twice a week.

My local city. . . My local city. . . When people ask me where I live, I replay that I live in the most beautiful city of the world. I live there since I was ten years old, now I’m thirty and I have to admit the city is deeply changed. However still now you can walk surrounding by lots of huge and ancient monuments. Who did not know the Colosseo or the Saint Peter Church? These are just two examples of hundreds of wonderful place to visit if you would come in my city. If you like the art galleries you can’t choice which one you have to see at first because there are about two hundreds ones around the city. Don’t you like art or historical places? don’t worried, in this city you can find a huge variety of modern art and lively places to visit as well. Saturdays night I love to go to Trastevere with my friends because there are lots of pubs with modern music and jazz music too. Usually in the morning people like sleep longer but, if you want, every second Sunday of every months you can choose to visit museums for free. I think it’s a great opportunity. Last month, for example, I visit “Palazzo Spada” where is a important gallery made by Bernini. I’m sure you’ve guessed where I live, but if you are still unsure, I’ll just tell you now: I live in Rome, the capital of Italy. If you don’t believe to my words, come here and then tell me if I’m true.

"Santa doesn't exist". . . Las week in Rome, at the end of a wonderful Christmas show, the orchestra leader of one of the most famous orchestras said loud: "Santa Claus doesn't exist" In front of him there were thousands of sons and severals of them started crying. Mothers and fathers were ashamed and anger at the same time. Immediately they protested against the conductor and wrote on Facebook they were not agree with that words. In few hours blew up a huge argument with thousands comments on the websites. The and of all was that the Auditorium where the show were done the next day published a post where it said that Santa Claus exist (you can see the post at the end of the page) and that orchestra leader had been changed with another one.