I love this game| (please correct it!) Hi, it's Thomas here with the daily 10 minutes of writing commitment! Today I would like to talk about a game I've fallen in love with, when I was really young. Since the title of this little note, you should recognize what I'm going to talk about. Basketball, isn't it the best game ever? Back in the last 90s I've started playing videogames (I was 6 year old or something) and one of the first game my dad bought me was this NBA 96 CD. At those times, the NBA was not so famous here in Italy and me and my dad didn't know anything about those great player on the other side of the Ocean. Well, the NBA had just come across the first MJ era and I think they were in the first phases of a big plan to take their brand worldwide. In those years, they made the best move they could: they took MJ on the screens with one of the most well known cartoon ever, Bugs Bunny. Children from every part of the World fell in love with "Space Jam" and the NBA basically granted itself a huge new public. I was one of them and my love for this game rose starting from the first scenes of Space Jam. The rest is history as I've grown up watchign on TV (and youtube.....God bless yotube) with the 2003 Draft stars, one for them all LeBron "The King" James. I've been very lucky to have the chance to play basketball too, and I think it's maybe the coolest sport I've ever made; you must be focused for the rules are very strict, you must be strong and quick as well as precise, obviously. Basketball is very easy to practice, as all you need is a basket and a gamefield; it's cool played with an opponent, but you can practice shooting and movements even alone. The only thing I've never did is to root for a franchise, I simply can't choose; not being a US citizen, I'm not particularly bind to some team due to geographic reasons and I know I should root for a team, but I'm so in love with the game that I can't really take part only for one of them. I love watching the professional player doing things I couldn't even imagine. (I've written it down without reading it again to check for errors. My will was to reproduce a typical texting, or speaking situation, in which I wouldn't have much time to think to every little detail to fit perfectly to grammar rules.)

Les gilets jaunes (corrigez-le SVP) Je voudrais savoir de quelqu'un qui est en France en ce moment, qui sont les gilets jaunes. En Italie on en parle comme d'une mobilisation populaire contre la hausse du prix de l'essence et du gazole, mais aucun peux nous donner une explication sur la nature politique de ce mouvement: est-il un mouvement guidé par un parti politique? ou est-il plutot un mouvement populaire indipendent et totalement libre de n'importe quel parti? Je suis vraiment interessé à le comprendre car je suis toujours attiré des protestations populaires, et j'ai toujurs consideré la France comme un pays où contrôler les gens n'est pas très facile pour la politique. Et cela est fantastique! Je ne pourrais jamais penser à un pays meilleure de la France pour ça, c'est la berceau de la protestation populaire dès la Révolution Française. Comme Italien je ne pourrais être plus content d'avoir comme voisin un peuple tellement combatif.

A brand new experience (please correct it!) Hi all, here I am again, after being rather lazy for a while. I was in the middle of a workplace change and I was most focused on all the implications taken over by that. I am still very concerned about this turnaorund in my career; till now I have been employed in technical offices, striving to search my place in this shark tank named "the 2020 society". I was bored by the daily routine I was involved in, 8 hours a day in front of a computer sitting on a desk, drawing lines no one will care about. And then the breakthrough: I had to change something, and as my off-the-job life was (and still is) perfect, the only choice left was to search for another workplace. I always deemed my life perfect and to bethe luckiest of them all, but never I would think I would find such a perfect brand new employment; it was June and an HR employer of a big firm making car spare parts, in my area called to know me. He had got to know of me searching for a job due to a common friend. The rest is history: many job interviews, some difficulties to go through but know I have just signed my brand new contract to collaborate with them. My job will be taking care of the commercial relations with froncophones countries, first of all the France and thei car makers. It is kind of a dream for me: working face to face with the biggest realities in european industries every day, travelling around europe and having the chance to improve my language skills (both English and French ones). I only hope to be able to bear all the pressure I will have to undergo due these all new responsibilities; keep on dreaming, guys! The World is big enough to ensure the right place for everyone; the right mixture of skills, luck and proactivity will help you.

Ma nouvelle éxperience (corrigez-le SVP) Bounjour a tous, je vien de signer mon nouveau contrat d'embauche et je suis vraiment content pour ce changement. Désormais, c'était longtemps que j'avais envie de changer travail, j'avais des problèmes avec mon chef et je revais une carrière totalement différente; vous savez, je suis un garçon très attiré par les langues, les cultures différentes par la mienne et mon actuel travail s'agit de rester fermé dans un bureau pendant 8 heurs le jour. Par chance j'ai trouvé quelqu'un qui cherchais un ingénieur intéressé à voyager beaucoup, manageant des rapports commerciaux avec la France et ses entreprises des voitures. Pouvoir travailler aves les voitures ou les moto, c'étais la motivation principal pour qoui j'avais décidé d'étudier à l'Université; donc j'ai enfin réalisé mon rêve. Je suis vraiment heureux et prêt pour facer cette nouvelle aventure. On espère seulement que ce sera la chose la plus bonne à faire à la fois pour ma vie sentimentale, vue que je suis épousé avec une femme magnifique, et ma vie proféssionelle.

Corrigez-le SIVP (#5) - 10 minutes d'écriture en français par jour Aujourd'hui je voudrais vous mettre à la page sur mon nouveau hobby. J'ai decouvert un jou vidéo genial qui s'appelle Starcraft 2. C'est un jou où on doit controller une base militaire et en organiser l'économie. Voir les jouers professionels sur internet fait sembler facil ce jou vidéo, mais c'est quelque chose vraiment difficile à faire: on doit manager beaucoup de choses de la guerre à l'économie et etre multitasking c'est fondamental. On doit faire des calcules pour connaitre ses propres ressources à fur et à mesure que le match s'évolue et dans le meme temps, on doit chercher de decouvrir quelles sont les plans de ses ennemis qui est en train de construire un empire. Si vous ne connaissez pas ce jou vidéo, je vous conseille de chercher quelques temoignages des championnat mondial annuel sur youtube; vous tomberez amoureux de Starcraft 2.

Please correct my daily 10 minutes of writing (#6) Hi all, yesterday I finished to read "The old man and the sea" by E. Hemingway. What can I say? I really wanted to read it, since I was a boy, but never found out an excuse or the right inspiration pushing me to go and buy it. However, now that I'm struggling to always keep my english fresh with a daily study routine, I used to my advantage the Amazon kindle language learning features, and downloaded such masterpiece of a book. Besides the (maybe boring) techinicisms of fishermen World, Hemingway described the chase of the Marlin with a very rich abundance of details, especially for what concerns the psychological aspect and reactions of the old man. We don't know how Santiago (the main character) had ended up to become "the old man", but we get to know step by step every psycological feature of him and some fragments of his past life as a sailor and as a man. The young boy (Manolin), introduced at first only as a mere narrator in the story, finally becomes himself part of the "old man" complex personality; the old man will miss him while in open sea chasing over the Marlin, as if he missed his own youth, and Manolin presence is stronger in the "skiff" of the old man than the reality of the narration would intend. The great respect shown by the old man for his personal Moby Dick is always stressed by the author, and his sailoring on his way back to home bothered by sharks is a moment of high intensity for Santiago; in that moment the reader who had believed him respecting all fishes, will realize he has not some kind of belief or faith in the spiritual connection between mankind and animals, instead he will realize the old man had only growth a (maybe mutual) deep respect for his marlin, who simply had represented for him his strenght of the hey days, gone away and never come back.

Corrigez-le SIVP (#4) - 10 minutes d'écriture en français par jour Voila, je retourne à écrire ici sur Italki. Aujourd'hui je voudrais parler d'un sujet très actuel: en France je sais que on parle beaucoup de l'interdiction du voile intégral dans les éspaces publiques sur le sol français. Je viens de lire que les Nations Unies viennent de condamner l'état français pour avoir interdi et sanctioné avec 150€ de fin, les femmes qui portaient le voile dans un éspace publique après le 2010. Je ne voudrais pas offendre aucun, mais je trouve juste que dans un pays occidental et laïque on doit s'habilier comme on veut, mais on doit se rendre reconaissable. En plus, je ne trouve pas juste que seulement les femmes doivent s'habilier selon les regles du Coran, mais en étant dans un pays libre, c'est juste pouvoir exprimer la propre réligion comme chacun souhaite; si les femmes musulmannes veulent professer leur dévotion, leurs doivent etre libres de les faire.

Please correct my daily 10 minutes of writing (#5) Today I would like to talk about a book I've been reading for all the last week, and that I've finally finished yesterday. The great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. Just to be clear from the beginning, after I've seen the film with Di Caprio as Gatsby himself, I expected more from this book. Apart from the logical archaic usage of the language (the book was written in the first half of the XX century), I think the story lacks pathos and groove. I was never kidnapped in reading till late or something; I went through the book till its end merely as a good language exercise. I don't think I would never finished it, if it weren't such a good exercise. Charachters are not described in the deep of their souls and thoughts and even the famous Gatsby's parties are not stressed enough in my opinion.

Corrigez-le SIVP (#3) - 10 minutes d'écriture en français par jour Je me suis promis de faire de la pratique en écrivant en français chaque jour. Aujourd'hui je pourrais vous parler de la soirée dernière! Moi e ma femme avons decidé d'allumer la cheminée pour la première fois dans cette nouvelle saison froide. Nous avons pris des marrons pour les rotir au feu, du bon vin et nous avons invité des amis pour feter l'arrivée du automne 2018. C'étais un peu tot pour allumer la cheminée, car ici en Italie ça n'est pas assez froid encore, mais j'avais beaucoup envie de manger des marrons après longtemps. J'étais déjà très content en ayant le feu, des amis et du bon vin à la maison, mais ma femme m'a fait une surprise en cuisant une nouvelle recette: des boules de thon et ricotta vraiment délicieux. Ma soirée a été marveilleuse!