The most wonderful day of my life The most wonderful day of my life was without doubts the day when my first child was born. You would say that It's perfectly normal and there is nothing special in it, but it was for me really special day. I was very young at that time and I was extremely sad because of my loneliness. The father of the baby, a really stupid and immature little boy, disappeared as soon as he knew about the child, my parents were so angry that didn't want to hear from me anymore. I can still remember feeling the sense of depression rising throw my body and crying like a baby. It was not for the pain I was suffering from but only for deep loneliness. What made that day so wonderful, what made me feel happy was actually a bunch of flowers a little bunch of pansies which my father brought me to tell me all his love. Now that my father is 96 and he is going toward the end of his life, he is nearly passing away, it seems to me that day as the best day of my life.

CHRISTMAS IN NIGERIA I’m going to talk about the festival of Christmas in Nigeria, I’ve asked one immigrant boy for telling me about, one of those who frequently you can meet just in front this building, one of those who often asks for some money, and you’ve probably wondered why if the government pay for each of them 50 euro. But now I don’t want to talk about this and not even because the most of them are carrying on leaving their country to come through the desert, where an half of them pass away and through the sea where the half of the rest also pass away, but I want to talk about how they are used to celebrating Christmas day, just as the Nigerian boy told me. He started telling me that in her village Christmas is the most important festival of the years, they have even other festivals which are far less important. he told to me that Christmas is especially important for the children because of the present. “Any different from here!” I said , he replayed explaining that the differences consist in the quality and in the quantity of gifts and that happen only when the parents have money “I mean in the 20/30 % of the families” she said. In this best cases the present is one dress and, if the family is very rich, also one pair of shoes. This is the only time in the years when children get a dress. he carried on saying that the most of children normally get a very large dress because f they are supposed to grow up with that dress. I was laughing as he mimicked children walking with their large new shoes and he was laughing to, he was very surprised and delighted about my curiosity and interest. The evening of 24 is called “watch night of Christmas, they usually go to church for celebration and sing songs concerning the birth of Jesus Christ. For the Christmas lunch they usually cook fry chicken. They are used to boiling the chicken in a little water, as some sausage has been preparing a part, when the chicken is boiled they cut it in little chunks and fry it in the boiling palm oil. The chicken is served inside the sausage with white boiled rice. He added that often one chicken is prepared for fifteen people and even more so sometime it might be that one person has to eat the head and the other the paws or the neck, but they are not up set because the most important thing is the sausage taste to flavor the rice. This is the Christmas menu for the family that

Accepting the present Accepting the present I need to accept, and then take action. Whatever the present moment means, I have to accept it as if I had chosen it I should always work with the present moment, not against it. I have to make the present become my friend and my ally, I don't have to allow him to become my enemy. So I can transform my whole life. What should I do in order to live in the present? What do I need to do or to know in order to live here and in the current time?

about my country I live in Sardinia, one of the two bigger islands in Italy, it is located in the middle of the mediterranean sea, and it's very great place to visit, Here in the coasts there are the more beautiful landscapes that you can see in all the world, and a most cristal sea where you can swim, but in the other hand in the inside our island it is very poor and it is becoming like a desert, we don't have almost trees and we suffer for the water lack. We are very friendly and we like hosting people

the use of be supposed to "it was supposed to work properly" or "I expected it to work properly" Are these sentences both corrected? do they have the same meaning? and which of them is more used in English spoken'? thanks a lot

hello everybody I'm 60 my name is Rita Ilive in Cagliari. Cagliari is the biggest city of Sardegna a beautiful island in the middle of mediterrane sea. I want to learn English, I spend a lot of time for it but its so hard for me, I've some trouble in the speaking becouse I haven't occasion to speak English in my country, but writing is hard as well. I work in the pablic aministration of my country as Architect and I occupy about territorial and landscape planning. At the moment I'm in my office and I'm starting to work. I look forword to see if my writing is so bad or not thanks very much everybody