"Tra il dire e il fare, c'è di mezzo il mare"

Hey everybody !

This time, I've more inspiration : I can see the sun of Liguria, feel the water of the Mediteranean sea and the sand of Savona, hear Elsi voice, smell the Italian kebab and taste the spumante of the Lidl! That was more or less the program of my last Saturday...


Il sabato a Savona
After a hard wake up at 8 am and a little rush in the station of Porta Nuova to buy the ticket and get the train, I finally take a seat in the wagon with Pierre piccolo, Pierre grande, Elsi, Katrine and Lina. Destination : Savona, in Liguria, in the South of Torino, on the Italian seaside. Let's leave rainy Torino and go to sunny Savona for one day, doing... nothing.

Look as we are happy to leave rainy Torino !

After more than two hours of train and a short lesson of Finnish (for your culture : cheers = kippis, thank you = kiitos, hi = hei/moi/terve/päivää), we arrive at the station of the wonderful city of Savona! The program is quite easy : look for the beach, go to the beach, stay on the beach, and that's all! I know, it could seem so boring (actually it's what I thought before), but when you've Elsi with you during a whole day, it can't be boring. I don't know at all what the Finnish people eat, but I believe there are a lot of vitamins and other energetic stuffs in their food.



So, after a very busy morning, an awful kebab and another busy afternoon (with walking in the unhistorical center of Savona, visiting of the local Lidl, spumante tasting and sitting on the beach), we meet other Erasmus (Nicolas, Jennifer, Delphine, Gabor, Attila, Petra). At the end of the day : sitting one more time on the beach, drinking some no-so-soft drinks and eating.

Actually, you can see only 4 people on those 2 pictures, but we were about 10 in a whole wagon ; I let you imagine the mess it was ;-)

Finally, we go back to Torino (arrival around midnight) - surprise, the travel is still longer than in the morning ! -, make a picnic in the train (the ticket inspector didn't seem to like it a lot).


One month ago...
I arrived in Turin! I knew a bit Italian but never had never spoken Italian, I knew pastas but had never cooked it well (i.e. according to the Italian way), I went in Italy but had never been in Turin, etc.
Actually, I don't remember all the things I did/didn't do before Turin, but it's quite hard to realise that I arrived here only one month ago. It's paradoxal : on one hand everything is going very fast (you spent one week as it was one day), on the other hand it looks like I arrived here six months ago.


Anyway, I'll use this occasion to show you something a little bit more interesting that my life : Superga! I went there one month ago, with Katia's father.
As its name doesn't tell it, Superga is a hill nearby Turin, with a beautiful basilica. When the weather is nice (and when there is no smog), you can have a nice view on Turin.



Il Bellini
After a long time of thinking (30 sec), I managed to reduce the size of the video of the Bellini (you know, this nice cocktail bar on via Po). So, here you are the video.


Short Italian course
Cazzo! I've ancora forgotten to go to the lectures! Però, it wasn't davvero a problem, perché I was too much sleepy this morning. Cosi, I could sleep more, quindi I'll can go to the party tonight!

The goal of this stupid paragraph wasn't to describe any possible student situation, but to try to show you how much some little Italian words can change the sound of a sentence. According to me, Italian sounds like music, and I think this is partly due to those nice (and not so nice also) little words.