Saturday, February 12, 2011
FEBRUARY, 6TH - DINNER AT OUR PLACE
Dinner with friends, brother and sister, who doesn't want to be published on my blog. So I must limit myself.
FEBRUARY, 5TH - LOOKING FOR A HOUSE
Saturday afternoon spent with my little sister who's looking for a house to rent up in the hills. I kinda liked this one!
FEBRUARY, 3RD - SELF-PORTRAIT #2
Maybe not a classical portrait, but who said there must be a head ina portrait? That's what I'd call a portrait with environment (once again my room)!
FEBRUARY, 2ND - ROWING IN VENICE
Among the many medical certificates you need in order to
obtain a Seaman's Book in Italy, you also need to pass the so-called
"Swimming and Rowing Test". The swimming part was just showing that
you can swim and float: I always thought that somebody who can swim must also
be able to float, but apparently it's not so automatic. And there actually was
a girl who swam quite normally, but once she stopped to float Sshe sinked
almost to the bottom, saved by the lifeguard. The second part was much better,
and consisted in rowing in a boat down one of the channels in Venice, trying to
avoid taxi drivers and police boats going by. When the first boat leaved, they
came back much later and the comment was: "We went left at first, but there
were too many rats, so we had to take an alternative route". Too much fun!
When I'll finally settle down here for living, I will surely join one of the
rowing teams in Venice!
FEBRUARY, 1ST - PHOTO LAB SESSION
Old friend Gabriele invited me to see how he develops films. Too bad he's still learning, so I can't say I had a real master calss. But had fun and was very inspiring, had thought of putting up a photo lab myself, and now i know it's not so hard. I got one of the wrong-developped pictures as a present.
JANUARY CONCLUSIONS
4 days without pictures, actually not even so bad for me. 2 of those days I was really sick, so at least it was not for laziness. I took too many pictures in my room, though. And delayed a lot in posting, didn't do it once a week like I intended to. And have too little fans! People subscribe and get me going!! Please!!!
JANUARY, 31ST - GETTING OLD
This evening I went to the swimming-pool coz in a few days I will need to take a swimming test (you'll read about it). And it was pretty sad to realize that 10 years ago I was in a swiming team, used to swim back and forth 20 times just for warming up or cooling down, and could swim more than 50meters withouth breathing. And now.. well, as I said, it's pretty sad! Once at home I looked at one of the school-time little trophies, the once I got with the skiing team, just to remind myself that I need to exercise more...
JANUARY, 30TH - FRISCHE LUFT SCHMECKT GUT!
After going to bed at 2 in the morning because of a small heating problem in the room (the heating was off when we went to bed at 1, so had to wait a little bit longer in order not to freeze..), we woke up and decided to head to the mountain, even with snow. Pretty good walk.
JANUARY, 29TH - LESSINIA
Short weekend trip with Paola and Giorgio to the moutain region of Verona, called Lessinia. It's an area known the numerous fossils, and look what we found having a walk in the woods! The picture of myself was taken by Paola, I was trying to see if the ice on the lake was strong enough.. and luckily it was ).
JANUARY, 28TH - JAGER AND SIGARS
Another view of the interesting objects in my room. Sigars from Canary Islands (remember the pirate's treasure onboard the cruiseship?), and Jaegermaster baby-size that Paola and I took to Jutenheimen for the good hiking.
JANUARY, 27TH - VENICE
Trip to Venice to get some burocracy done. Nice walk around. View from Rialto.
JANUARY, 26TH - SALGARI
This is one of the pictures hanging in the corridor of my house, made by myself years ago. Now, I visited my cousin some days ago and I noticed her corridor is filled up with drawings as well, the only difference being that her kids are 8, 6 and 4.. Anyway, this picture alway reminded me (even at the time of making it) of the adventure novels by E.Salgari, a writer from Verona who wrote dozen of novels about pirates in South East Asia. That's where my love for corsairs, ships and jungle come from, I guess.
JANUARY, 25TH - DREAM DREAM DREAM..
More girlish stuff.. sweet dreams are made of me! The rose was part of the weekly treasure during cruise-ship time: at the end of the cruise I had to catalogue all the lost and found items, and I must say I found several interesting objects... a real pirate treasure every time ).
Thursday, February 3, 2011
JANUARY, 24th - SELF PORTRAIT #1
Here we go with the very first self-portrait of ther project! Still inside my room, still trying to grab some of the countless useless objects that populate it, reminding me of old times like this little mirror. I decided it was about time to begin with a new series, so from time to time I will try to take interesting pics of myself, hopefully not only taken at the mirror in my room...
JANUARY, 23rd - CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY SET
Yeap, among many other things I do have a Chinese calligraphy set! I never quite got all the mystical stuff behind calligraphy, but watch the movie Hero and you'll understand a little what it is all about.
JANUARY, 22nd - OLD TOYS
I'm still wandering around my room in the evening, rying to find out interesting stuff. Fot today I've got an old carillon, actually not even that old, and actually not even mine... It's my sister's, and as many other things found home in my room over the years. Every time I come back home, I keep finding objects that moved over to my room, probably in an attempt of avoiding being thrown away. They must have found out that I never throw away stuff...
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