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Definite Article 42
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THIS ISSUE:
 Loads of enthusiastic
reviews from
our talented
KT journalists!
 Books, films,
musicals, holiday destinations and
more!
 A Christmas
puzzle
 Vocabulary
Corner
 The Prize
Article
 A word from
Emma
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Two weekends ago my family and I went to the theatre
to see the musical “Seven
brides for seven brothers”.
It was a fantastic evening,
both for the magnificent
scenery and for the incredible talent of the
cast. The PeepArrow
Entertainment company
brought to the stage a
new edition of the famous Musical with two
important actors of the
Italian stage: Flavio
Montrucchio and Roberta
L a n f r a n c h i .
The story tells how the
seven Ponpitee brothers,
rough woodmen, live isolated between the woods
and the mountains. Tired of
loneliness, the eldest of
them, Adam, wants to get
married. He conquers Milly,
a beautiful woman from the
local village, but soon after
she finds out that she has to
take care not only of her
husband but also of six other
men, Adam’s brothers.
Poor Milly transforms the
Roberta Lanfranchi and Flavio
Montrucchio in Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni Da Udine
dirty woodmen’s mountain
hut into a welcoming home,
and teaches Adam’s brothers
to woo the girls in a polite
way, so that they can win a
girl and get married too.
After many vicissitudes,
courtship, dancing in the
village, fights between suit-
ors, abductions of girls and
more, the happy ending will
arrive on time with six marriages and the birth of
Adam and Milly’s daught
e
r
.
At the end of the musical
I was lucky enough to be
accompanied backstage
by the theatre director, a
friend of mine. There I
had the opportunity to
meet the two leading
actors, have my picture
taken with them and get
their
autographs.
I highly recommend all of
you go and see a musical,
because they are very absorbing, especially if you
know the story and also if
you have the opportunity to
meet the actors in person,
who are often friendly and
take pictures with you and
sign autographs without being bothered.
Caterina Goli
Emma Talking
Having only recently become an udinese—
meaning of course that
I’ve finally moved to
Udine, not that I’ve suddenly taken an interest in
football!—I’m greatly
looking forward to spending my first Christmas
here with my family.
prosecco!
In fact, for the first year
ever, all the KT staff will
be in Friuli with their folks
to celebrate the festivities.
So we’ll be mixing turkey
with muset, Christmas
pudding with gubana and
prosecco, well, with
So, here for your enjoyment is
the Christmas edition of the
Definite Article. I hope you
enjoy the selection of beautifully-written articles as much as
I have, and wish you all a very
Merry Christmas break!
P AGE
2
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Do you know of a book
in which humour, adventure, philosophy and
sociology are masterfully blended? A book in
which the details are as
important as the plot is,
and which makes you
willing to re-read it several times? Don't panic!
Douglas Adams' The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy is that book!
Adams wrote this novel
in the late seventies and
it was just the first of a
five-volume saga concerning the out-of-theordinary adventures of
the ordinary Englishman
“Entertaining
food for thought!”
gripping
Vocabulary
Corner
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
5 useful words
for describing
books and films
heavy going
Arthur Dent in outer
space. Arthur is saved
by his friend Ford Prefect just a few seconds
before the Earth is
wiped out to make
space for a galactic freeway: together, they begin a bizarre journey
through time and space.
Unwittingly, the protagonist will meet new
life-forms, more or less
intelligent or hostile,
visit remote worlds and
learn something new
about life, the universe
and everything.
The whole saga is lively,
involving and really
entertaining
funny; what’s more, the
author is able to discuss
with profound intelligence some questions
that have bothered
thinkers for centuries. I
wholeheartedly recommend these novels (now
in one convenient volume) to all open-minded
readers: it is entertaining food-for-thought!
Elio Padoano
haunting
moving
A gripping story - I couldn’t put it down.
A light but entertaining novel. Great for reading on the beach.
So heavy-going that I couldn’t finish it.
A haunting tale. It stayed with me long after I’d finished the book.
So moving that it brought me to tears.
My Life Without Me
“If you have ever asked
yourself "What would I
have done today if I had
been alive?", don't miss
this film!
T HE
Why should a
young woman stay
still in the heavy
rain, alone, without
shoes, her eyes
closed, shivering?
This is the gripping
beginning of the film My
Life Without Me; the answer comes after a few
minutes: something has
happened to her and
she's going to plan the
few remaining weeks
ahead, until the end.
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The film is the first
work by the Spanish
director Isabel Croixet.
It reminded me of the
first work of another
young female director,
Jane Champion and her
Piano Lessons. However,
unlike the latter, Isabel's
budget was very low,
the actors almost unknown, the photography
not quite so gorgeous
and forget Nyman's
wonderful soundtrack.
Nevertheless, the emotions,
the questions, the discussions
with your friends about the
plot, will remain. And there is
plenty to say.
If you have ever asked yourself "What would I have done
today if I had been alive?",
don't miss this film.
Maybe you will get your answer.
Omar Cal
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P AGE
3
Chef
A couple of months ago I
went to the cinema to
watch Chef, an American
comedy written and directed by Jon Favreau, who
also plays the main character.
Carl is a renowned chef
who works in a popular
restaurant in Los Angeles.
He is very passionate and
creative, eager to cook the
new dishes he has come up
with. However, the restaurant owner forces him to
repeat the same old dishes
making him feel really demotivated. Carl’s personal
life isn’t much better: he is
divorced from his wife and
seems unable to spend time
with his ten-year-old son.
To make things worse, a
famous food blogger criticises Carl for his boring
menu. Carl, furious, gets
into a public fight with the
critic, someone films them,
and the video goes viral.
Consequently, Carl loses
his job and his reputation.
With no job prospects, he
decides to go back to Miami, where he first made his
name. Encouraged by his
charming ex-wife, he buys a
food truck and takes it on
the road trying to rediscover his passion and to
repair his relationship with
his cute son, while serving
lovingly prepared Cuban
sandwiches.
Chef is an adorable film
which makes you feel good
from start to finish. The
cast is brilliant, very supportive of the charismatic Jon
Favreau. The dialogues are
sparkling and keep you smiling a lot. There are also
three remarkable cameos. If
you are keen on photography you will appreciate the
spectacular on-the-road
scenery. Moreover, the
soun dt rack
is very energetic, based
on
Cuban
and Louisiana
dance
m u s i c .
Chef is a
h e a r t warming
comedy suitable for anyone
who
wants
to
spend a relaxed time
and doesn’t
care
that
nothing unexpected
happens during the film!
Just one piece of advice:
don’t go in hungry!
Patrizia Cosolo
Lucy
If you are a fan of sci-fi
films, you will appreciate
Lucy, by Luc Besson. The
plot is inspired by the idea
that human beings use only
10 per cent of their brain
power.
At the beginning of the film,
Lucy, played by Scarlett Johansson, is a naive young
woman who is involved in a
narcotics-smuggling operation. The smugglers hide a
large quantity of drugs in
her stomach, but the bag
bursts and an enormous
dose of this experimental
drug is absorbed into her
blood. The side-effects
gradually induce her brain
to reach 100 per cent of its
operational capacity.
The conception of the plot
is linked to the Critique of
Pure Reason, the most important work of Immanuel
Kant, and the idea that in
order to make sense of the
world the human brain
needs to find in it an order
that it doesn't possess. At
the end of the film, Lucy is
turned into an unworldly
spirit, who can see the real
order of the world, in
which time and space does
not exist.
What impressed me about
Lucy was the extraordinary
acting of Scarlett Johansson:
everything she does is really
worth seeing!
Daniela Terranova
Scarlett Johansson as
Lucy.
P AGE
4
“The world is
not a wishgranting
factory, but
the way you
live in it,
that’s up to
you.”
Vocabulary
Corner
Complete the
sentences with
the words from
page 2.
T HE
The Fault In Our Stars
Not long ago, I happened to find myself
caught in the rain while I
was trying to find my
way through the narrow, yet fascinating, narrow streets of Venice.
As I looked around, I
saw a bookshop and I
thought it was there for
me, a shelter away from
the rain and a good excuse to do what I love
most: go inside and be
surrounded by books.
There was one in particular that caught my
eye, it was called The
Fault In Our Stars by the
American writer John
Green. While I was
reading the plot, I
thought it was a pretty
sad and depressing story
because of the characters he chose, and I
would never read something like that because I
read for pleasure and it
allows me to escape
from reality and none of
that included reading a
story about sick kids.
Going through the pages
I soon realized how
wrong I was. It seemed
anything to me but a
lame story written with
the sole purpose of
moving some bored
housewives or chick
flick lovers.
As I started reading it
every night, by the end
of chapter five it had
totally won me over. It
was not just that the
characters were so real,
it pictured life in the
way life really is: comic
and tragic. It tells a sad
story, yes, because the
kids are sick with cancer
and they will die of it,
but it is not about
death, it is about life,
love and friendship, and
that makes all the difference.
It took me not even two
days to finish it, the two
days I have laughed and
cried the most at the
same time. It is thoughtprovoking, it’s also so
heart-warming
and
touching but in a discreet way, never rough
and above all never,
ever depressing. It made
me laugh out loud because of its unique sense
of humour and made me
think a lot. It was also
very therapeutic for me
because I am dealing
with a great loss myself
and those characters
really did touch my
heart. They made me
think once again that the
important thing, sometimes, it is not the
length of a life but the
depth, that you only live
once and should never
forget that, and that
love and friendship can
change your life in a way
you could never have
expected, even when
the end of it is already
in sight.
The most important
thing, though, that those
two amazing kids, Hazel
and Augustus, show is
that we should never
give up or put aside our
dreams and the things
we believe in, even
when it seems meaningless to us. It is not a
cliché and it shouldn’t
sound like one, because
when what is essential is
put at risk, then you
understand what really
matters (but the characters hope you already
know it). To quote
them: “The world is not
a wish-granting factory”
but the way you are
gonna live in it, that’s up
to you.”
Ludovica Neglie
1. The film is certainly well researched, but so __________ that I fell asleep before
the end.
2. A true story so __________ that there will not be a dry eye in the cinema.
3. A __________ triller which will have you on the edge of your seat from start to
finish.
4. The music was stranglely __________ and I couldn’t get it out of my mind.
5. An __________ Christmas film - ideal for all the family.
Answers on page 10.
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Beauty and the Beast
“Once upon the time there
was a young prince whose
arrogance
and
cruelty
caused him to be transformed into a beast. The
prince had to learn to love
and had to be loved by
someone else if he wanted
to break the curse over him
and his castle…” this is the
beginning of the musical
Beauty and the Beast
where nothing has been left
to the imagination. Everything has been painstakingly
and copiously illustrated.
All the actors are contagiously gleeful and able to
make the audience laugh.
There is a lot of humour,
especially with characters
like the vain bully Gaston
and his sidekick LeFou who
work very well together for
laughs, as well as Lumier
and Cogswoth and also
Belle herself is pretty funny.
But the strength of this musical is not in the single actors, who all have stunning
voices, but its group numbers that you can admire in
songs like “Gaston” or “Be
our guest” where a chorus
of actors dance and sing in
tandem to fill up the stage
from corner to corner.
Every appearance, disappearance, rainstorm or
thunderbolt is managed by
special-effects engineers and
a live orchestra gives a
touch of magic and realism
to the performances.
It is such an amazing experience that the audience has
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was
brought to the stage this month at the
Rossetti Theatre in Trieste.
to include children as well
as those who are old
enough to remember when
the animated film came out
in movie theatres in 1991.
Beauty and the Beast is a
musical that encompasses
an entertaining afternoon
or evening for all ages. It is
definitely a great show not
to be missed.
Marina Pascolo
One Plus One
One Plus One is so far the
best novel I have read this
year. It was published some
months ago by the English
writer Jojo Moyes and it
tells the story of the young
single mother Jess who,
even if she has two jobs
(cleaner during the day and
waitress in the evenings)
struggles to get by. She has
a 10-year-old daughter
called Tanzie, a surprisingly
gifted maths geek and she
takes care also of her stepson Nicky, a quirky adolescent, always bullied by his
schoolmates. When a private school offers Tanzie an
almost full scholarship, Jess
does her best to collect the
extra money needed. But
the only possibility seems to
make Tanzie take part in a
Math Olympiad in Scotland,
hoping she will win the
prize. So they embark on
this long trip with the help
of the rich entrepreneur Ed.
Jess is a lovely character,
very far from the clichéd
female protagonist of a romance. She is strong, sensible, optimistic, full of life
and hope even if life constantly lets her down. She
will give her life for Tanzie
and Nicky and always tries
to keep their economic
problems to herself and let
them live with the hope
that sooner or later things
will get better. It is impossible not to grow fond of Jess
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and the kids and feel
really involved in
their problems. Tanzie is such a sweetie
that more than once
I would have liked to
step into the book
and give her a hug.
What I liked most
One Plus One by Jojo Moabout this book is
yes—“the perfect mix of
the perfect mix of
heartbreaking scenes heartbreaking scenes and
and hilarious and light- hilarious and light-hearted
moments.”
hearted moments. I
will recommend this
book to readers who
enjoys a well rounded
story, with romance, sadness and humour all in one!
Anna Pascoletti
5
P AGE
6
Friuli Venezia Giulia
The real nature of Italy
is found in its small
towns, where ancient
traditions are still alive,
and can be discovered
by any tourist who
comes to visit them.
The centre of Italy is
one of the most visited
parts, but many have
never been to the north
-east region of Friuli
Venezia Giulia. It's a border region, walled in by
the Alps to the north
and overlooking the
northern Adriatic.
Here you can find many
contrasts in the landscape, language, food,
religion and behaviour.
Even the region’s name
is composed of three
parts:
People living in the
northern part are called
Friulani,
whose most
important city is Udine.
There are a lot of interesting tourist attractions, such as Cividale,
Tarvisio and Gemona. In
these places the agricultural traditions are
maintained, and you can
The beautiful town
of Cividale Del Friuli
“We love our
region and
traditions, and
we invite you to
be our guest to
visit us.”
find delicious dishes like
frico (melted cheese
with potatoes), gubana
(a cake filled with dried
fruit, usually accompanied with grappa) or the
world famous San
Daniele ham. In the Collio
(the eastern hills) you
can visit a lot of wineries, where most of the
best Italian wines are
produced. You can't
leave without a bottle of
Friulano but hundreds of
wines are produced
here.
The western part is
called Venezia because it
is near the city of the
same name. The main
town is Pordenone but
other interesting places
are Lignano (a seaside
town with many fish
restaurants), Maniago
(famous for knife manufacture) and Barcis,
where there is a wonderful natural lake.
The eastern part is
called Giulia and the
main city is Trieste, a
wonderful city, which
must be visited. It is the
capital of Friuli Venezia
Giulia, and perhaps the
most cosmopolitan city of
all Italy. Slovenia is only a
few kilometres away,
Croatia only 20 minutes,
and you can be in Austria
in about an hour. The influence of these different
cultures can be found in
typical dishes like jota (a
soup of beans, sauerkraut
and potatoes), brodedo
(fish soup), ham baked in
bread dough (directly
from Prague), cevapcici
(like grilled meatballs,
from Slovenia) and liptauer
(a spicy cheese spread).
The city has many historical buildings and places of
worship (the Castello di
San Giusto, the Greek Orthodox church, the Synagogue) but the most
amazing place is the main
square facing the sea.
We love our region and
traditions and we invite
you to be our guest to
visit it.
Francesco Bragagna
A Five-Star Product!
Once deflated, it can disappear into your wardrobe!
T HE
Have you ever wondered how to face off a
gang of friends coming
to your home for a festival nearby? Or how to
satisfy your relatives
greedy to visit new museums? And they are all
asking for a place to
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stay, putting you in a bit
of a pickle? If so, just
buy an air mattress (and
an air pump too, to inflate it easily)! King size
and double-sided (for
winter and summer),
once deflated it can disappear into your wardrobe and if you fall in
love with for camping
you will have half of the
stuff ready to go.
Everyone who loves
wildlife without losing
the comfort of their
bedroom, or who loves
numerous and cumbersome families should
get one!
Francesco Rossi
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P AGE
7
Little Tibet, Little Wonder
In the far north of India,
beyond the Himalayas, lies
Ladakh, a land of stark terrains and mystical Buddhist
monasteries. Today it is the
only major region where
the Tibetan culture and religion can thrive in freedom
and for this reason it is also
called "Little Tibet".
I visited its Zanskar valley
and mountains three years
ago: a breath-taking experience!
The landscape of Ladakh
enraptures its visitors! It is
hard not to be entranced by
the austere beauty, immensity and emptiness of the
terrain. Closed between the
Great Himalaya and the
Karakoram chain it is a land
of high passes: a ridge must
be crossed, climbing or by
car, almost every time you
travel from one valley to
another.
Its villages are a clusters of flat-roofed
and mud-plastered
houses with carved
lintels, scattered
around you can see
reliquary
monuments
called
"chorten" and up on
the crag, overlooking
the village, a "gompa"
or monastery, home
to lamas and monks,
a fortress-like complex of large whitewashed edifices that
seem to grow out of
the rock itself.
Thanks to its remoteness
Ladakh was one of the last
cultures on earth to come
into contact with Westerners. The Ladakis are a
friendly people and it is easy
to interact with them. Culturally, Ladakh is largely
Tibetan. Today, with Tibet
under Chinese control, it is
only here that you can savour the true taste of that
slowly disappearing culture .
“The landscape of
Ladakh enraptures
its visitors! It is hard
not to be entranced
by the austere
Mario Casini
beauty of the
immensity and
emptiness of the
A Dream Hotel in Tuscany
I’m not always proud to be
Italian because we aren’t
able to value our natural
and cultural heritage. Still, I
love Italy, especially Tuscany, which is the most
beautiful land, clearly for
me.
The last summer I spent a
week in Tuscany and I
found the hotel, which everybody is always dreaming
of. Its name is “Fattoria
Santa Vittoria” and it is located 20 km from Arezzo.
My first view of the landscape took my breath away:
the hotel is in the middle of
hills, covered by cornfields,
vineyards, olive trees and
expanses of sunflowers.
There the guest can enjoy
the nature: he can go walking through the vines, or
read a book in the garden
sunbathing, or borrow a
truffle dog which helps him
to find a truffle. If the guest
wants to make a day trip,
there are many beautiful
cities very near, like Cortona, Arezzo, Siena and Perugia.
Above all that, what struck
me was the kind hospitality
of Marta e Mauro, the
young couple who manage
the hotel. They are really
terrain.”
nice and thoughtful
to the guests and
suggest them what
they should visit.
Mauro cooks delicious dinners, eaten
with a good wine,
made there from
their
vineyards.
Moreover the hosts organise a party every
Wednesday night for the guests to get to know
each other and spend a pleasant dinner together.
The only weakness is the difficulty reaching the
hotel: it is in the countryside and the GPS doesn’t
find the exact address. But, if you succeed in
reaching it, you will spend your dream holiday in
an amazing place.
Sara Mansutti
P AGE
8
Prize
Article!
Pantanal
Have you ever spent a
holiday in Pantanal?
Pantanal is a region of
Brasil. I visited it in August, with my husband
and in my opinion you
could not choose a better place to see animals
and experience nature.
We left our eco-lodge
with another family in
the afternoon and got
on a kind of a “cattle
truck” to reach a part of
the Amazon Forest.
When we arrived we
got out of our truck and
set out for a… ladder,
or rather four ladders.
After 1 hour of walking
in the forest, we saw a
high platform that stood
out against the sky.
Slowly one after the
other we walked up to
the end of the fourth
ladder.
We were 35metres high
above ground level and
under us there were the
The Amazon
Rainforest in Pantanal.
“In my opinion,
you couldn’t
choose a better
place to see
animals and
experience
nature.”
tops of beautiful trees of
many species, with monkeys jumping from one
branch to another. All
around us blue parrots,
white "jubiru" and other
birds were flying and
singing for the end of
the day. Far away from
this part of the Amazon
Forest it was possible to
see American ostriches',
deer, "akuti'" (an animal
like a rabbit) and other
creatures running in the
grassland.
We waited for the sunset on the platform and
then while we were getting down the ladders,
we asked our guides, if
it was possible to go
back to our eco-lodge
on foot, walking in the
darkness. Our guides,
Miguel and Sidi, agreed,
so we said goodbye to
the rest of the group
and holding torches, we
started walking in single
file, Miguel, my husband,
me and Sidi. Miguel as a
good guide had a big knife
in his boot.
After a few minutes the
sun set and all around a
lot of small bright eyes
were watching us. Sidi and
Miguel said that those
were the eyes of grey
foxes, cayman and deer .
We heard rustles in the
bushes and sounds near
us. It was a scary situation
but we followed Miguel
and we reached our hotel
after we had been walking
for two hours.
The beauty of the forest
with its colours, the wide
variety of animals and the
long walk in the darkness
are among the most exciting experiences I have
ever had.
It is a new way of knowing and loving nature.
Monica Lucchini
Swan Lodge B&B, Downpatrick
A very nice and friendly
place to stay. Good value
for money.
T HE
Last summer my girlfriend and I slept in
Swan
Lodge
B&B,
Downpatrick (Northern
Ireland) for one night.
This B&B is run by a
lovely old couple, John
and his wife Liz and it is
situated in a very quiet
and peaceful location. It
was a little bit difficult to
get there – partly because it was dark – but
the welcome was very
warm.
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The atmosphere of this
place reminded us of
the Victorian Age a little
bit: there were a lot of
decorative
objects,
paintings, cushions, sofas, and so on, but the
B&B was very comfortable, clean and with all
the modern facilities
(for example free wi-fi
connection).
The breakfast, which
was served in a sunny
conservatory
from
where we could see the
sea, was great. A typical
Irish breakfast, French
toast with peach and
maple syrup, fresh fruit
salad,
home-made
bread, home-made jam
and marmalade with tea,
orange juice and coffee.
In our opinion this is a
very nice and friendly
place to stay, with good
value for money.
Dario Politti
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KT Christmas Puzzle
9
(answers on next page!!!)
Complete the
words using
the clues below
to reveal a
Christmas
message to all
our students.
4.
19.
Cosmetics
If I think of something that
really inspires and appeals
to me, my first thought
goes to the perfume shop.
Yes! I like all the world of
perfumes, creams and cosmetics. I've been going to a
particular perfume shop in
the town centre for ages. I
know the owner and the
two members of staff so
well that by now they are
like good friends.
I'm very attracted by face
and body creams and masks
which make your skin
smooth, velvety and bright,
and love keeping up to date
about new arrivals, which I
can't wait to test. Obviously, I like perfumes a lot,
especially women's perfumes, but actually men's
perfumes which smell of
spices are very intense and
warm.
One shop assistant is very
good at make-up and when
I have a special occasion I
go to the shop, I sit in a
comfortable chair and in a short time I look at myself in the mirror and I say “Awesome!!!”. It would
be very nice to learn to do make up like this, and I
try and pay attention when she reveals some of
her make-up secrets.
I don't know why I'm so keen on this world maybe it's related to one of my childhood memories. When my mother was in the bathroom putting on her face creams or make-up with a lot of
care and passion I was really bewitched.
Honestly one of my dreams is to work in this
beautiful and fascinating world and I think I'd be
very gifted at this job. One day... who knows?
Anna Aquino
Answers
KT Christmas Crossword (page 9)
Vocabulary Corner (page 4)
A Review of Keep Talking!
I came to this school for the
first time five years ago, because my
da u g h t e r
needed to
improve
her English.
I
knew
Angela
and Doria
and when
my daughter had lessons and I was
waiting for her, I spoke with
them. Angela told me about
the beginner course which
was starting that year, and I
decided to join it.
It was incredible for me to
start this new school experience, because I wasn’t a girl
anymore and it was like
a challenge for me. For years
I had been only a wife and a we spend pleasant time
mother, and now I had the together.
I especially like
the atmosphere
that in this
school, the fantastic
workshops
where
you can learn
very
different
and
original things
and you feel
possibility to do something comfortable.
for myself. Something com- I’ve realized that the first
pletely different and new.
course helped me a lot in
I had some very hard mo- that moment of my life and
ments, because my memory have decided to continue this
didn’t help me, but I found fantastic experience.
some very good teachers –
all ready to help.
Thanks!
I’ve met interesting people
during these years, some of Nives Burelli
whom are friends now and