Why can't I find a female language partner ? I can't understand why if I ask to a woman or a girl to be my partnern language on Italki, they don't reply to me. It isn't completely true, somebody replied to me but for a reason that I don't know, when we had to take agreement about to chat on Skype she disappeared.
I don't like to bore the people, but I have a serious problem ( I joke ! ) My husband is a bit jealous and once he asked me “ Why do you have only male language partners ? “
I would like to find a penfriend, to make practice with written English, so if there is a kind lady who is studying Italian and she is too shy to chat on Skype, I pray her, to contact me. She will do a good deed and in my house will return the peace !

My biggest mischief When I was a child I was very shy, but in spite of this the other children liked to play with me, maybe because whit my fantasy I invented always new games. My first teacher used to explain us many things, my classmates were all around her to listen her lessons. I found this very boring, often I didn't to listen to her, and stayed for my own. She said to my parents that I didn't pay attention to lessons because I wasn't enough mature, she reassured them saying “ You will see from a short time also your daughter joined to her classmates spotaneously “ In the meantime I persueded some of my companions to play with me during the lessons. One of us hidden in the classroom a pencil sharpener, and the other had to find it. We ran here and there did a lot of noise. In my classroom ther was a vase with a plant, unfortunately while I was running bumped into the little furniture that support the vase, a big silence fall down on the classroom when the vase of the TEACHER was on the floor broken in thousand pieces. My parents bought another plant for the teacher and I had to apologize me with my teacher. I suddendly turned into a child enough mature to listen to all the lessons from the begin at the end. The teachers like the mum have always reason

An inusual begger Some days ago, while I went at work, I saw a boy seated down in a corner with near him his packback I thought that he was a rover. I told to myself “ Maybe he speaks English ! Finally someone with which practice English ! “ I reached him and asked him “ Where are you from ? “ “ I'm Italian and live in Valtellina “ “ I believed that you was a rover “ The boy was very handsome, he had blue eyes that were full of tears. “ Are you an addict drug ? “ I asked to him “ No !!! She doesn't answer the phone “ he replied drying his eyes “ Who is her ? “ “ My girlfriend, we quarreled so I left her and now she doesn't want to see me “ At this point I told him a story, Once I was in the station's toilet, when I heard a voice of woman through the door of the bathroom. She was crying. I knocked at the door and asked “ What happen, do you need of help ? “ “ It is a pain of love “ “ Don't worry, this too shall pass “ I replied. I couldn't imagine that I would be in the same situation. When I was very sad and down I repeated to myself this too shall pass. On the face of the boy appeared a little smile. I asked him if he took the breakfast and I put in his hand some coin. He stood up and he went away thanked me. I added “ Instead to stay here to cry, you must return to her “ Half hour later I was sitting on my desk and I thought “ Maybe now he is on the train “ and that morning the work seemed me less hard.

Do you play with the words My husband and I often play with the words, we create new words that you can't find in the dictionary. One is “ paciglia “ It is a word composed from two words, pace ( peace ) and guerriglia ( warfare ) When we argued, sometime we needed to feel us close but we are still angry, one of us asks to the other “ Can we do paciglia ? “
Another word is Mostriglio. The last Easter I did a stuffed animal, half rabbit (coniglio) and half monster ( mostro ) I called him mostri-glio.
We speak a sort of familiar language, I think other people do the same for fun. There is a book entitled Lessico familiare ( family lexicon ) written by Natalia Ginzburg about this sort of language.
I would like to know if somebody does this play, speaking English

Someone of you play with the words ? My husband and I often play with the words, we create new words that you can't find in the dictionary. One is “ paciglia “ It is a word composed from two words, pace ( peace ) and guerriglia ( warfare ) When we argued, sometime we needed to feel us close but we are still angry, one of us asks to the other “ Can we do paciglia ? “ Another word is Mostriglio. The last Easter I did a stuffed animal, half rabbit (coniglio) and half monster ( mostro ) I called him mostri-glio. We speak a sort of familiar language, I think other people do the same for fun. There is a book entitled Lessico familiare ( family lexicon ) written by Natalia Ginzburg about this sort of language. I would like to know if somebody does this play, speaking English

Grazzano Visconti Some years ago my husband and I visited Grazzano Visconti a little medieval village, near Piacenza. It was rebuilt in the first age of 900. The houses are so nice with exposed brick walls, plants of wisteria growing everywhere and little windows with the sill full of geraniums. In the main square there is a fountain, and many beautiful statues My husband said " Look there is a statue of a lady, she look like a fairy. Around the statue there are many little things, they seem gifts. Why don't leave something also us ? Maybe this custom will bring us good luck " I went closer and saw that the little things were flowers, little jewelleries or nice handerchiefs. I began to search in my purse, I didn't have nothing of similar, I found only a dog biscuit, so I left this at the feet of the statue. Grazzano Visconti has also a castle in the middle of a wonderful park, that we visit it in the afternoon. Inside the castle there is a courtyard, with another statue of the misterious lady. The guide said us that she was the ghost of the castle. Aloisa, this is her name, wasn't very beautiful, so nobody wanted to marry her. Finally a soldier of fortune asked for her hand and they got married, but Aloisa wasn't happy because her husband often was far from her and had many adventures with other women. So she died for the pain and she turned of in a ghost. The legend said that she helps the unlovely women to find a husband, and they, when their dream to get marry come true, they have to visit her and to leave a little gift to thank. At that point I whispered to my husband "Do you want to see that I will find the dog of my life ? "

Because I began to study English All began with a discussion with my colleague. He told that if you work on the computer, listened to music, the work is less boring and the time flies away. I had another opinion, I thought that listen to songs, expecially with italian lyrics, could confuse me. He said " Why you don't try ? " and I replied " Why not ? " There was only a problem, what kind of music ? I asked some advices to my son, " I'm searching music to listen while I work. I would like to find cheerfull songs with english lyrics. What I can do ? " My son told me " Is it possible that you don't know what kind of music you like ? " " I like a song that I listened on TV, during an advertisement about a car " Fortunately he knew the song. It was " You are my sunshine " sung by Doris Day. I found other songs on YouTube, and on LastFm, a radio online, and I discovered that the Country is a music for me. I don't know because, but the country feel me like I were return at home. Infact my nickname on LastFm was countrywoman. At this point you could ask me " But why did you begin to study English " I wanted understand what they said. I understood only few words, and listened to " The coward of the county " I couldn't understand why Becky crying. Poor Becky, what happened to her ? There was another reason, I watched many video on YouTube, I decided to try to make some video me too, so I needed to translate the songs. In my family the expert about English is my daughter in law, for the first time I asked her, but I was afraid to bore her, so decided to do by myself. In the meantime I did friendship on LasFm with Roy. We excanged messages about our tastes in music, so I had another reason to learn English. We had shared many songs, he has been my first english " teacher " but this is another story ..... If someone is curious to see one of my video, here it is https://youtu.be/UUxkuduQovU

My reader career My first steps like reader have been very hard, I still remember my mom seated near me that supported my efforts to transform in words those strange symbols. All changed when I understood that if I was able to read a book, I never would need that someone reading or telling tales to me. I could do it by myself !!! My first book was a collection of fairy tales about the stars. I liked it so much and I would like still to have it . The books were my best friends, when I was reading I didn't hear when someone called me. My great ambition was to read one hundred of books, at those time I thought they were so much, but probably I read more books of this number in all my life. I grew up and began to read very fast, but I didn'd have many books, so I read more times those that I have. This habit wasn't boring, also I remember the story I was happy to see that nothing was changed and my immaginary friends waited me with a constancy that I never found in a human being. When I was a teenager I used to climb on a tree, sitting on a branch I read in peace my book. I didn't think that it was dangerous, nobody could interrupt me....fantastic !!! My tastes about gender of reading are too many for mentioned all them, generally I prefer stories about far countries, or far ages. In these last times, I don't have many time to read, usually I read before sleep. I still remember when a book captured my attention so deeply, I was able to read until 2 or 3 p.m. Now I fall asleep after a quarter hour and often the book falls down from my hands on my nose, so I bought an I Pad, hoping to be able to listen music or study english, the result is the same, I fall asleep and the I Pad hits my nose.....unfortunately it hurts me more then a book.

....if you are young at heart ..... Hi Everyone It is many time that I'm looking for a partner but I couldn't find anyone yet. I would like to chat on Skype in English. I need to do practice because I have many difficult to understand spoken English. In change I promise to do all that I can to help who wants practice Italian. I'm a bit sorrowed because I could see that there aren't people with more o less my age that have studing on Italki, so I began to think that anyone reply to me because I'm old. I don't have problems to chat with boys and girls, I'm not a bored old italian lady. I wish to every young to grow old, so they will understand that if their body will be old, their continuied to feel themselve like a young.