mental pilgrimage Pellegrino: pilgrim, the word I was looking for. Dictionary says that pilgrim comes from late latin "peregrinus" which means a stranger who, in the past, was going to Rome for religious purpouses. A pilgrim is not just somebody who travels to reach an "holy" place but the word is also accepted and used in a most general sense as a wayferer. I think it would be nice for me to be a pilgrim, one day. Decide to leave and make a journey, on foot, towards a place where I've never been before. I don't know how many kilometer I could walk in one day but the idea of a slow journey, on secondary roads and country lanes, against the wind, under the sun or any kind of rain fascinates me. Probably I need to be disconneted from the rest of the world. Who knows what could I find? the pleasure of slowness or a huge sore feet...it worths of trying...

...back for a while! ..long time has gone since my last visit to italki's site. I appreciate the new style of the web-page and I want to try again to practise english writing a little every week (another good intention of 2016!). Today, after a rainy week, sun is shining and it looks like the spring is shyly appearing and a music is playing in my head ...pressure pushing down on me, pressing down on you, no man ask for...under pressure...have a nice Sunday all of you....

..still life.. ...just a little note to say how much I loved the movie "Still life". I'm not going to tell you about the story, as I think that you'd better watch it. Anyway, I hope not to disappoint you if I tell you that it speaks about death but, in a certain way, about the beautiness and preciousness of life itself. I apreciated every single scene, the screenplay, the photography, the actors, above all the cleverness and the talent of Eddie Marsan. I'm really gratefull that still exists some movies (and I'd say that this is certainly one of them) able to move me and let me feel not the same at the end...

An odd seasons’ perspective I wonder how it could be living in a place where there are no seasons. Probably time would dilate and one year would seem much longer to me. Actually, my perception of time is tightly connected with the cycle of the seasons and I feel that, in some way, it has an influence on me. The summer always brings to me a slight desire like a lovely, light breeze of changement while the autumn comes with its windy evenings and its falling dancing leaves. My soul, at the end, touch the ground and tries to get its roots stronger as the wintertime arrives. Here it is, the winter, a window open to the cold starry nights. From there, I can look at the tiny little things which make me feel alive before the spiteful spring comes. Then, I feel like an old bear who have seen enough of this world and would like to rest peacefully and more in its den…

mixed boring sentences again! :) 1) I will have known the result of the examination by the end of the month. 2) I'll be going to Rome next Saturday. 3) This time next week Juliet will be doing the exam. 4) Will you be lending to me your computer tomorrow? 5) I go out with my friends most weekends. 6) Mary goes shopping now and then. 7) It's the first time Marc has ridden a bicycle. 8) Simon has been watching television for hours. 9) John has played guitar twice this week. 10) We waited for the waitress who didn't arrive. 11) We have been waiting for the waiter for an hour.

some sentences with phrasal verbs 1) Everyday Tom gets off the bus at 1,30 pm 2) I don't feel up to go working today 3)Why don't you pick up the phone? It's ringing up. 4) It's ages since I don't tidy my room up. Look how dirty it is! 5) I'm looking up my keys. (or I'm looking my keys up???) 6) Even if my boss is kind with me, I still don't take to him. 7) Don't wake me up, I'm here for nobody! 8) In spite of your many defects and to sum everything up, I love you the way you are. 9) you need to work out in order to improve your English skills. 10) If you want to arrive in time, you should speed up (or hurry up?)

Some sentences with verbs followed by to+infinitive I tried to write some sentences using verbs which are followed by to + infinitive. 1) I hope to pass the exam. 2) I agree with you to go together to the cinema next week. 3) I decided to take the exam on September. 4) I learned to swim many years ago. 5) You appear to be the youngest of your brothers. 6) I choose to move the knight. 7) I promised you to study more. 8) I offered to you my help to wash up the dishes. 9) I want you to talk less loud. 10) He refused to bring me by car to the station. 11) He seems to be older than me. 12) We tend to get depressed if we don't reach our goals. 13) The robber threatened to kill him. 14) George expected somebody to give him some explanations. 15) I manage to close the company next year.

a sea's dream! Today is a sunny day and I really would like to go to the sea. I love the sea, but unfortunately I live far away from it! I would like to take a little sail boat and reach a small Island. Take a bath (probably it would be still too cold), rest on the rocks sunbathing! I prefer rocks than the beach. I love swimming and looking at the marvelouses marine beings! And, of course, a great dish of “spaghetti alle vongole” wouldn’t miss at lunch! ….Help! I don’t want to wake me up from this beautiful dream!!!

"About a boy" “About a boy” is a novel written by Nick Hornby set in London. It is the story of a young teenager, named Marcus and the thirty-six years old Will, which is a single, fascinating, child-free, maintained, immature man. Their meet will change each other lives opening new, unexpected perspectives. Marcus is a sensible guy who has recently moved to London from Cambridge, with his mother Fiona. He has a very bad time at school because his classmates make fun of him for his peculiar way to be. He doesn’t follow fashion, never owned a pair of trainers. Sometime he’s so assent-minded that he sings in the classroom without realizing it. He likes Joni Mitchell and Mozart and looks like a fish out of the water (This is an Italian way to say that it doesn’t suite well with the rest of the world. Do you have in English too?) Marcus will have to face a very difficult situation: his mother Fiona tries to kill herself. It happens the day when Marcus meets Will for the first time and, since then, their life will be bound. Marcus finds in the “superficial” Will somebody who can help him to solve practically his daily survival problems at school and can understand him better than anyone else. The immature Will, whose existence is empty of any kind of affective implications, will be more and more involved in Marcus and Fiona’s lives. He will find himself bindweed in life and in a new love. He will lose the shell he’d been built upon himself and all his distance. Of course, it happens at the cost of his cold and detached tranquility. On the other hand, Marcus develops the kind of skin that Will had just shed. He finally can have friends and look well after himself. “About a boy” is a very entertaining novel. Hornby describes the psychology of the characters so well and you can find a piece of yourself inside them. It is a pleasant read, hilarious and touching at the same time. If you enjoy an endearing read, I suggest you to choose this novel.