What I eat in a day I'm going to talk about my favorite food, let's get started with breakfast. When I get up, I usually drink milk with brown sugar or without sugar. I like to dip biscuits or cereals in milk. At lunch, I almost always eat pasta. There are million of different ways to eat pasta, my favorite are: with squashes, aubergines, tuna or salmon. With mushrooms is good as well. In general, I eat some fruit after lunch, the kind of fruit depends on the season. I hardly drink coffee because it makes me feel a little sick, plus I'm not a fan of its taste, but if I had to, it would be after lunch or in the afternoon. At dinner, I usually eat a dish of meat, fish or vegetables. I love vegetables especially peppers. I am very flexible when it comes about food, but there is something I can't help rejecting: garlic. I can't even bear its flavor. Since I went to live alone, I could have banned it from my diet.

Clothes Yesterday I decided to go out for some shopping. I wanted to buy an evening gown for Susan's party, stilettos and a coat, maybe a red one. The first shop kinda disappointed me, infact it was too expensive and the quality of the clothes was a little low in my opinion. So I decided to change shop and go for a different one. The second shop was better, I found a very nice evening dress but it costed well over seventy euros and I could spend only just over fifty euros for the dress. However, I decided to try it on, I think it looked very good on me, but I decided not to buy it. The third shop was the best: the vast majority of the dresses costed well under sixty euros and they looked very nice, only a little minority was expensive. I bought a violet dress with long sleeves and high heeled shoes. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a coat which could suit me, but I hope to be luckier next time!

How to use "kind of" Hi everyone! I have few questions about the expression "kind of", I'm not sure about how correctly I use it. For example: "It's a kind of pizza" and "it's kind of a pizza" Do these sentences have the same meaning? When should I put the article "a(n)" before and after the expression?

Questions about Italki Hi :) I have a few qustions about italki -do girls look for other girls in italki? Because they never send message to me and when I do it, they hardly answer, infact I speak only with guys (I don't have problems with it, I'm just curious) -why do people from Turkey contact me even if they're not interested in learning languages? Again, of course I'm not against turkey, I just wander why if someone not interested in languages contact me, at 99% is from turkey. It happens often even to my italian friends :) I would be glad if you also could correct my mistakes!

Movie review Today I'm going to talk you about the movie I saw yesterday: Arrival. SPOILER I really like science fiction movies since I've always been fascinated by everything involving the outer space, beyond the planet we're confined to. This may sound a little foregone: we're often attracted by everything we're not allowed to know, at least not entirely. However, the majority of these movies sells us the same old story: the war of the worlds is always on the agenda and sometimes it seems like special effects are abused so much that the movie plumbs the depths of absurdity. Is this the best we can imagine about the aliens? Arrival is far away from this conventional conception of the aliens: it's a survey between humans and aliens, they desire to know each other and somehow discover themselves able to communicate. It's such a reliable scene! However, something about the movie has left me quite puzzled: the gift that the aliens give to humans: the ability to see into the future, in order to live an experience as fully as we would if we already knew how it ends up. Everyone can acquire this ability by learning their language. I'm not sure how beneficial it is: how does it feel living a life which we know everything about? What about the unpredictability of the future? Maybe we don't need to taste the future to be aware that every precious thing must come to an end and that we should make an effort to live our life more intensively than we usually do.

About me My name is Eleonora, I'm 22. I am a student of engineering at univesity of Catania. I come from Syracuse, in Sicily. I've been studying English for years but I'm not that good and now I want to improve. I plan to live abroad for a few months in order to do a master and, eventually, enhance my English skills. Once I finished high school I decided to keep studying English by myself: I wacthed English movies or videos. On one hand, my accent and listening were getting better, on the other my grammar knowledge was getting worse. I realized that these things can't be separated and so I ended up studying grammar once again. As I just said, I hope to travel and meet people all around the world, this would be a helpfull opportunity to broaden my horizons and share experiences as well. It's on my wish-list.