"Se non è vero, è ben trovato"

Hey ! After almost one week without any news, I found a little bit of time to write again some - amazing, of course - facts about Torino.
So, let's start !


La pioggia (the rain)
Brussels (and Belgium in general) and Torino have - at least - one point in common : the rain !
Yes, even in Italy, this (supposed) sunny country, it can rain ! Indeed, since I'm here (i.e. about three weeks), it rained already twice...
However, the rain in Belgium lasts usually maximum two or three hours, but in Torino it seems to rain during one or two days ! To conclude this
very interesting paragraph, I'd like to say that Torino isn't the ideal city for depressive and sun-addicted people ;-)


La Questura
Another amazing point for me (you can notice that I'm quite quickly amazed) was the Questura.
But before to explain you what is the questura, I'll ask you a question : according to you, how long can stay an EU-citizen in an EU (Schengen) country ?
Maybe you'd answer that every EU citizen can stay as long as he wants in a foreign country that belongs to the European Union and that has ratified the Schengen agreement - at least it was my first answer before to come in Italy...
Actually, you can't stay more than 1 months, otherwise you've to go to the immigration office, Questura in Italian.

Well, why am I telling you this uninteresting facts ? I was only trying to start to explain how to spend a (or 2) wonderfull afternoon(s) in Torino : just go to the questura for taking your residence permit !

First of all, take several bus/tram and walk to arrive - at the opening or even better before - to the questura. Once there, take a ticket, and wait for at least one or two hours... You can't imagine how funny it can be ! It's like waiting a bus in the middle of nowhere, during a long while, and thinking about all the - other - great things you could do during this while.



Secondly, if one afternoon isn't enough for you, you can do the same as I did : go there one hour before the closing, notice that there isn't any ticket anymore, meet another Estonian Erasmus student (waiting for his turn already since two hours) telling you that you had to arrive
at least one hour ago, speaking a little bit with him and finally meeting another Erasmus student from Louvain-la-Neuve. Then you can go back and thinking about the shortness of the life...


The Politecnico
As you guess, the Politecnico is the Engineering school of Torino. It seems to be quite famous in Italy, because I've met already
several students from the South of Italy coming here for their studies. I took a picture to let you imagine a little bit the building
where I follow the lectures :

Yes, it looks like a prison !

The courses have already started since one week, right ? Hopefully, during the first period (there're four periods in one academic year)
I've only two courses, and about 12 hours per week (who told TIME was hard ?;-) - that's not too much, right ?

The first course is more or less "Stochastic Modelisation"(mais en nettement moins chiant, pour les mataps qui lisent ce blog... ou pas) and is quite interesting, right ?

However, the second course is about the interaction between electromagnetic field and the matter ; I let you imagine how it's boring, right ? Till now, the only two things I remember about this course are :

1. I'll try to find ASAP another course instead of this one ;
   
2. the teacher says always "right ?" (giusto ?) at the end of his sentences.

OK, that's unfortunately all for today. Not because I don't know what to add (actually I should really skip those not-so-interesting infos and focuse on the main business : the city and the night life !) but rather because I've not enough time...

Buonanotte !