What kinds of changes have you experienced where you work? I’ve been working in my company for 18 years, and in this period I’ve changed many times the working team and I have increased my responsibilities. This was why my superiors have a lot of confidence in me and have moved me to where it was most needed. Furthermore, the last change I’ve experienced has been starting smart working. It is interesting to see how in Italy, many companies that had always denied this kind of opportunity to their employees, had been able to implement work from home in just a few weeks and also with good results.

about me part 2 I spend my whole day between work and family and it's very hard since I believe that nowadays to grow up two children is more difficult than in the past, because they do more activities than we did. for these reasons, I don't have much free time. however, when I can, I like doing pilates to stay fit and feel good. I also like cooking for my family and for my friends, I enjoy having guests at home. I like following cooking blogs in order to learn new recipes. Furthermore, I like reading everyday news, because I want to keep me informed and following a lot of politics. That's a little bit of me, I hope I will know something of you in this months. Take care, Anna.

about me part 1 Hi Sarah, I'm really happy to have the opportunity to let you know something about me. I've been married for 16 years, a very long time! I have two wonderful children. Both of them take after me in different ways, in looks but also in personality. My son is headstrong and he has a high sense of justice as well as me. My daughter is really determined and she loves studying like me. I'm very proud of them. I graduated in the Economy 20 years ago. I enjoy my job although it isn't what I dreamed, unfortunately in our land, it's often difficult to make one's dream becomes true when we talk about work.

at the theatre Last year I went to see the musical "the little prince" with my daughter. It was a performance aimed at children but all the audience in the stalls, both parents and children, found it amazing. The play has been adapted from the Saint Exupéry's bestseller that is set in the Sahar desert where the costar's plane had landed after a crash years before, While the pilot was attempting to fix his plane's engine, he met the little prince who began to tell him of his home planet and of all the places he had traveled to. I had read the book to my daughter the previous month, and she really loved it as well as I had loved it when I was young. We had seen all the musicals from the program with the same starring, but this was the one that gave me more emotions. I had heard good reviews about it, but I couldn't imagine I would get so excited. I would have liked to visit the backstage with my daughter, to see the dressing rooms and meet the actors and the actresses.

a special day Yesterday was a wonderful day. In Italy, we are finally allowed to go out and to meet friends and yesterday my children have finally met their grandparents that they hadn’t seen since the pandemic started. It was really exciting. We wore our masks and we didn’t hug them, however, to see their eyes full of love was thrilling. After this meeting, we went to the beach to see our sea that is so important for us! The sea has been a fundamental element for an islander since he was born. Seeing the sea relaxes me and gives me joy. Now I begin to believe that soon we will return to normal.

Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino Today is an important date in Italy because we remember an Italian hero who was killed by a criminal organization called COSA NOSTRA 28 years ago. His name is Giovanni Falcone. His friend Paolo Borsellino and him were two brave magistrates who dedicated their lives to fight COSA NOSTRA. They created "il pool Antimafia" and carried out important investigations with the arrest of hundreds of criminals. They strongly believed that their Sicily was a land full of honest people and that COSA NOSTRA could be won. But COSA NOSTRA retaliated by killing both in the same year. I was a young girl in that year, I attended high school, and I perfectly remember these days and the feeling of anger and indignation that I felt. Everyone in my generation remembers what he was exactly doing the moment he heard the news of the killing! And after these days everything changed, every Italian has gained awareness that the example of these two men could really defeat COSA NOSTRA. Every year, on this day, there are events involving children and young people. Today it was a different May 23, without parades. There were no squares full of students but there are people in the balconies of the house singing the Italian anthem together. And then, many white sheets to wave in the balconies, as happened a few days after the massacre, when in Palermo the citizens filled the city with white to shout no to the MAFIA.

fake news I think that the phenomenon of spreading fake news is a big issue. Nowadays it’s very difficult to stop the flow of disinformation and fake news. Most people don’t go to news outlets for their news stories but the stories come to them via social media sites. More people don’t care whether a news story is actually true, and they are simply content to read something that feels true. But very often these news stories are total fabrication, they are bogus stories that people share unthinkingly. And it matters, think for example that fake news may influence a campaign election, through exaggerations and untruths, and consequently the results of the election and the life of a country. As far as I'm concerned, when a friend of mine sends me a link to news articles I’m very careful to distinguish if news stories are accurate and reliable or are bogus. In my opinion, the increase in fake news can also represent a danger to democracy because politicians can take advantage of it and people can’t know what’s true and who or what to vote for. I think it’s difficult to stop this flood of fake news. A first way could be through legislation, trying to write laws that regulate the flow of information in such a way that fake news become less prevalent. A second way could be making people more resilient against manipulation and disinformation.

a guilty secret When I was young I was very rebelling and I often told my parents lies. They were very strict and when I started going out with friends in the evening they reminded me of going home before a certain time. But I realized soon that they felt asleep and they didn’t understand the actual time I came back. So every time I went home 10 minutes later than the previous time. One night I came back very late and when I opened the door, and I saw the light on, I started to say my prayers because I had realized that my parents weren’t sleeping. As I had imagined my mother was asleep and she started shouting at me that I hadn’t respected the rules. My father, on the contrary, didn’t raise his voice. He just stared at me with his wonderful blue eyes full of sleep and he told me they were about to call the police thinking that something bad had happened at me. I replied that a friend of mine had felt bad and I had accompanied him to the hospital. I was lying but I was so convincing that they believed me. I’ve never confessed to them the truth.

judaism Judaism, from the word “Jew”, meaning “of Hebrew origin”, is the oldest and smallest monotheistic religion in the world. Followers of Judaism believe that God, who revealed himself through ancient prophets, created the universe and continues to govern it. Today, there are about 12 million Jews worldwide. Most of them live in the United States and Israel. At the beginning of the last century, the Holocaust exterminated lots of devotes. Judaism originated in Palestine, a region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Jews settled in Canaan, which lays between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the Bible, Canaan was the land that God had promised to Jews. God came to the prophet Moses at Mount Sinai about 3,500 years ago and spoke with him giving him two stone tablets on which he had written the “Ten Commandments”. These commandments became the basis for the civil and religious laws of Judaism. The Jews believed that these laws formed a new covenant between God and Jewish people, a special contract where Jews promised to obey to God's laws and in return God, called Yahweh, promised to protect the Jews as the “chosen people”. Jews gather in holy places known as Synagogues to pray their God and the leader of community is the Rabbi, who isn't a priest. They believe that one day “Messiah” will come and bring an era of peace to world.