Le bonheur Le bonheur est une chose vraiment bizzare parce que c'est presque impossible de le mai^triser. Ce que je veux dire c'est que quelques fois nous sommes heureux sans aucune raison apparente, alors que d'autres fois la tristesse et la dépression nous ne permettent pas de vivre en toute tranquillité. En effet, il serait vraiment très intéressant de comprendre les motivations cachés derrière ce phénomèm ici. En réalité j'ai été toujours fascinée par les mécanismes du cerveau humain et, pour cette raison, je voulais devenir une psychologue. Peut-e^tre que quand nous le comprendrons mieux , finalement nous pourrons contro^ler notre état d'a^me. Mais, en vérité, je ne suis pas su^re que, à ce moment là, nous aurons obtenu un avantage ou pluto^t perdu quelque chose encore plus importante.

A blink of eye I don't know if you could understand me when I say that there are moments in your life which may change you forever. As far as I'm concerned, this happened to me when I was fifteen or sixteen years old. In particular, studing my textbook of Natural Science, I read that the lenght of the human history could be compared to a blink of eye in the history of the planet. In other words, the past four millenniums are just a tiny part of the history of the planet. Although we are used to consider the human history as the most important, if not the only, part of the world history, actually our presence on the Earth is a recent phenomenon. As first immediate consequence, it becomes clear that the mankind is not so necessary as we generally tend to believe. Since the world has been well survived without human beings for a such long period, evidently our existence don't make any difference. Contrarly, we could learn a lot about this evidence modifying some of our behaviours which often are totally disrespectful of the natural environment. To sum up, I strongly believe we could consider all we have as a valuable gift and never forget that.

la niege J'ai toujour adoré la niege. En effet je me souviens que quand j'étais une fillette j'adorais l'hiver pour la niege. En particulier, la chose la plus belle était alors qu' il neigeait le jour de Noel parce que ma maison était à la campagne et donc je et mes fre^res pouvaient jouer dans mon jardin pendant toute la journée. Malheureusement un jour nous avons du^ nous tranférer en la ville et en outre je suis aussi grandi, mais en tous cas j'aime encore beacoup la niege. Quand il y a la niege toutes les choses couvertes sont tellement pures, brilliantes et aussi un peau magiques! Si ,après qu'il a neigé, je dois aller à l'université , c'est n'est pas un problème parce que je suis heureuse de me promener pour la route. En pluis, j'adore aussi sentir le perfum de l'aire qu'est tellement frai^che et propre! Finalement j'éspère que ce hiver il neigera au moins encore une fois! Salut

Is that progress? "Do we work to life or we life to work?": that was the core of the debat held in class yesterday . Although there were several different opinions concerning such topic, I think only one of these is worth of being taken into account. I'm referring to the widespread incapacity/inability of the human beings to take time for ourselves, for our family or friends. In other words, I believe our society has totally lost the control by forgetting the actual scope of life. By now it exists only one word ,say, "growth", and we all are only focalized on working, earning, producing and so on. Consequentely, little by little there is no longer/more time to stop thinking about our crazy behaviour and to recognize that the so-called "progress" actually is nothing else but a regression. Moreover, I understand that whereas during the past centuries the endless and restless work was necessary for the survival , nowadays the huge technological progress would allow us to save more time to spend in leisure activities. This should be the logical consequence! By contrast, we work harder than before only in order to produce things which are completely useless!

le français C'est vraiment bizarre que tout le monde qu'étudie l'italien me dit que ma langue c'est tellement musicale! Au contraire, je crois que le français c'est beaucoup plus musical que l'italien ,surtout quand c'est une femme qui le parle! De tout façon , je dois forcément croire à mes amis anglais ou français alors qu' ils disent aussi. C'est pour ça que je suis un peu triste parce que je ne réussis pas à sentir cette musicalité. Probablement , le problème c'est que l'italien c'est ma langue maternelle et, par conséquence, pour moi c'est la normalité. En tous cas, j'adore le français comme ,d'ailleurs j'aime l'espagnol. Perdonnez mes erreurs! C'est ma première entrée!! Bon nuit à tout le monde de l'Italie.

Learn to forget. A couple of weeks ago, while I was walking through the park, I noticed that someone had forgotten a magazine on a bench. Although I was not tired of walking, I sat and started leafing the newspaper ,and immediately, my attention was captured by an article titled "The importance of the forgetfulness". According to the author, nowadays our society is based on an important and strong rule : "remenber". To make a long story short, he shows that since our childhood we learn the meaning of "remember" ( for example , to do the homeworks) and that ,afterwards, we put into practise this learning thousands of times both at work and at home. Moreover, our society tend to give a positive value to the capacity of remember , defining as stupid and fool someone who has a weak memory , or conversely, as genius who remember easily. By contrast, the author believes that actually the true merit/quality/asset is to be able to forget because this capacity would make people happier. The reason is that people could worry less and their lives would be more relaxing. Furthermore, though it is clear that the purpose of the article was higly provocative, I strongly believe that there is something deeply true behind/under this exaggeration. Particularly , we should thinking about the fact that the so-called best period of our life, say, the childhood, is the only one of which we don't remind almost nothing. So, why should we not learn to forget?

"All the world is the same country" Tonight, while I was talking to an English speaker friend, I tried to explain her the meaning of an italian proverb : "tutto il mondo è paese". Because I realised (that) it is quite tough to translate it , I tried to explain the meaning of this sentence. In a few words, it means that people from different countries have some common features, behaviors and characteristics, or also that the same (generally bad) things happen all around the world. To give an example, someone could define Italian people as lazy or indolent , but this is a characteristic of a lot of people from the most different countries. Similarly, I could do thousands of examples to demostrate that this proverb tells the truth. Unfortunately, too often this truth is forgotten and this leads to two opposite bad habits : to critise continously its own country thinking that the other ones are always better or , conversely, to believe that its people is superior. It is noteworthy to remind us how much the latter belif is dangerous! To conclude , I can only say : always remember that "tutto il mondo è paese"!

the word "inoltre" in English I always have problems using this words "besides", "moreover", "furthermore" , "beside" ,"further", "likewise" "then" "hence" "so" "thus" because in Italian are always translated "inoltre". Could you tell me the difference and give my one example?

position of adverbs Can you tell me(with examples) if there is a rule about the position of adverbs in English? For example : also , always , often , yet , already? For instance , I have to say " I always know that.." or "I know always that.." ecc