Riprendendo un tono allegro. Ho finito l'application il 7 Dicembre e vi scrivo solo oggi perché sono stata settimane pienissime, tra scuola, occupazione e corso di teatro.
Vorrei fare un veloce excursus sull'occupazione, esperienza che amo. Se volete saltatelo pure per arrivare alla parte "application".
E' (quanto odio il fatto che non esista la è maiuscola) il terzo anno che occupiamo e questo è stato l'anno più sensato di tutti e abbiamo anche concluso con una fantastica lettera firmata dalla preside in cui accoglie le nostre richieste (siamo forti, eh?). Quella scuola è come la mia casa e durante l'occupazione lo è stata ancora di più. Sono stata ogni giorno lì quasi sempre fino alle 23 e arrivavo alle 9. Ho fatto corse mitiche su un carrello per il corridoio, sono salita sul terrazzo per guardare le stelle, ho visto persone girare a scuola con il motorino, cioè dentro la scuola. Ovviamente tutto questo con il favore delle tenebre, la mattina stravincevo a burraco e ho tenuto un paio di volte delle "conferenze" sui libri che finivano sempre con una litigata su Bukowski.
Nel frattempo rincorrevo la mia prof di inglese per farmi fare la raccomandazione e andavo a fare vaccini et similia.
Ricollegandomi al discorso application, piano piano ho accumulato tutto il necessario e sono riuscita a terminarla, le cose più noiose erano il fatto di dover scannerizzare ogni santa cosa e scegliere le foto che ho dovuto cercare ovunque per poter decidere. Questo è lo screen della prima pagina di application, in alto potete vedere tutti i campi che ho dovuto compilare. Ho coperto le mie informazioni personali per privacy, of course.
Tralasciate la foto orribile che ho messo, non avevo proprio idea di cosa mettere e quindi ne ho presa una qualunque.
Per quanto riguardano i campi "photo album" e "student photo" il primoo si riferisce alle foto da caricare in cui non compaio e l'altro a quelle in cui devo esserci.
ho scelto, per quanto riguarda il photo album :
- una foto della mia scuola
- una foto della mia città
- una foto del posto in cui vado d'estate
- una foto della mia migliore amica ( non avevo foto carine con lei)
- una foto dei miei genitori in luna di miele super tenera
- una foto del mio scoiattolo
- una foto della mia classe durante la gita in cui non c'ero
- una foto della mia stanza
invece per quanto riguarda student photo:
- una mia foto sorridente
- una foto con i miei nonni
- una foto con mia madre e mia sorella
- una foto con il mio compagno di banco e la mia migliore amica
- una foto con il mio ragazzo
- una mia foto singola di questa estate
- una foto del gruppo di teatro
- una foto con delle mie compagne dopo aver fatto da ciceroni per il FAI
- una foto di due estati fa con i miei amici
Siccome nello scorso post avevo detto che ve le avrei mostrate queste sono un paio di quelle mandate:
questa è la foto di questa estate, semplicemente la amo.
questa è una foto del posto dove vado ogni estate fatta sulla scogliera mentre guardavamo il tramonto.
come potete vedere ho davvero tanti capelli, questa è la foto da cicerone.
Vi lascio anche la lettera tanto che omai è stata mandata e tutto il resto, forse prima elimino qualche informazione personale, ma spero vi serva da esempio,anche perché vi uccido se me la copiate, letteralmente, vi sfregio. E' un po' lunga, sentitevi liberi di ignorarla.
Dear host family,
My name is lalalalal . I'm from Italy and I'm 16 years old. I am writing this letter to introduce myself to my future host family, to tell you something about my personality and how my life here in Messina is.I'd like my future host family to know that I am quite independent and I like doing things on my own but at the same, I am very sociable, especially when I am in a place where I feel comfortable and accepted. I believe that I am a flexible and openminded person who doesn't judge other people.I live with my mother and my sister. My grandparents live right next door to me and I have a very special relationship with them. I don't usually help around the house but that's just because we are lucky to have a housekeeper and so at the moment I'm learning how to use the washing machine because I would like to share my housework with my host family. In general, I would say that I am a tidy person and when I stay with my friends in summer, we each do some of the housework. When I live with my English family I'd like to share my daily life with them and also meals talking about what happened at school. I would talk with them in case I have some problem or if I feel homesick. I want to get on well with them and to be always honest and obedient as I am with my mother and my grandparents here in Italy. I'd like to do the shopping with them and cook with them even if I'm not masterchef. I won't ever close myself in the bedroom staying at the computer talking with my italian friends because as a person said to me "This is a once in a life experience and it is more useful just to stay on the sofa with my family even if we are just watching the news". I think that going to a high school abroad will help to grow as a person. I will be able to learn both from my classmates and from my teachers, things that I cannot learn here.In fact, I really can't wait to begin my experience in the UK, to learn about different ways of living, about the world and myself.I would like to spend a year in Great Britain because I am looking to find my place in the world. I hope to feel free being myself and to feel each emotion five times more intensely than I do here in Italy. I am thinking about the streets I will be walking on each day in England rather than the ones I walk on now in Messina. It might be on the bus or in a car ... who knows ... I am imagining myself telling my host family and English friends about our traditions in Italy or even cooking something typically Italian for them. I also think that this experience will help me to become a young woman and not just a teenager.Here at home I can read, listen to music and watch films but I would like to do more, to experience new things first hand and broaden my horizons. With each day that passes, I think "this is my last 2nd November here", in the sense that the next one will be in England. I get really excited just thinking about it and once I start thinking about it, I try to get one step closer to the day when I leave for England. My ten months there will enable me to bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood; it will not be possible to be a child anymore, to be a quitter or to just play. After this year I will have my last year at high school which will seem like a gust of wind in the sense that it will pass very quickly and then I will have to go to university.Even though I still feel like a child in some ways, I hope that this opportunity to spend a year abroad and to open my mind to the world will help me to develope, to discover, to react, to build my future and to know my limitations and those parts of myself that I haven't understood yet. I'm attracted by the UK because I like the English accent and I feel that I would fit in with the English lifestyle and way of thinking. I like English history and I love the English art scene because of their writers and singers (Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Beatles, Rolling Stones). The way that the day passes in England looks perfect to me and my habits.
I usually spend my days doing a lot of activities and pursuing interests.I go to school six days a week and my school is just five minutes from my house. I stay there for five or six hours; during them we study ancient Greek and Latin and everything that's related to these subjects; I study also math, pshysics and science but I'm not really into scientific subjects and I prefer history, literature and English which are my favourites ones.After school I attend the school choir and also the drama club.I've been a part of the school choir since the last year and I love singing with my friends there. We have also won a lot of competitions, for example last year we went to Rome and we won singing a Lady Gaga medley, "Africa" and a "We Will Rock You" medley- it was great!Indeed we are going to perform Prometheus, a Greek myth, with the drama club in a month, on 18th December, and then we are going to Greece for a drama festival and for a challenge (fingers crossed).In my free time I am interested in a lot of things: I love reading and listening to music. My favourite book is Blindness by José Saramago. I've been reading since I was a little child and I have never stopped.I listen to any kind of music, except rap to be honest, my favourite band is Radiohead and I listen to jazz music too or even heavy metal! I have also a lot of fun singing even if I'm not Whitney Houston. I also like spending my time taking photos of everything that is around me! I'm fascinated by the fact that I can freeze moments, smiles and memories with my Canon.I also spend a lot of time watching films and tv series. In fact I'm a great fan of Studio Ghibli, especially Hayao Miyazaki's films.I love travelling and for Christmas my family and I are going to Instabul and last year we went to Vienna. Unfortunately I've never been in England but I know it to be an awesome place.Here in Messina the most important people to me are my boyfriend and my two best friends: my boyfriend is a very active person and he does and knows a lot of things. He's different from me, but we have also a lot in common and we could spend even hours together just talking about any topic, we are in a relationship from two years and what we have built is very special for both uf us.My two bestfriends are Marea (that means "tide") and Giuliana.They are very different from each other.Marea is very sweet and friendly with anyone, she is really emotional and artistic; she is natural, outgoing and spontaneous. I have know her for three years and from the moment that we met we became very important for eachother and we take care of each other.On the other hand Giuliana and I are always kidding and joking and we have been best friends for a lot of time, we've known for 6 years and our friendship is very strong. I think she really knows me even if we're always teasing one another because we are together most of the time.
I have a strange personality. I'm a daydreamer and clumsy but if I want something I am very determinated and ambitious to reach it and I don't give up easily on things that I really care about. I don't like fighting or being angry. I like being relaxed and calm and having around people who don't get angry for anthing or who scream and get too excited about anything.I can look quiet and shy but this happens when I'm uncomfortable or not sure that who's with me really wants me to be there, in fact because I'm always watching around and noticing details, I easily understand situations and moods . Otherwise I'm a very talkative person and I like very much discussing any kind of topic.My favourite colour is green and my favourite animal is the cat. I don't just like them, I'm kind of obsessed with them; I have a lot of green things and clothes and also things with the cat image on.Sometimes I bring cat food with me to help homeless cats and I love spending my time just watching them.Unfortunately I don't have a cat; we have a little tortoise from 4 years and a squirrel but they aren't very nice and sociable.
In the future I am going to be a psycologist. I would like especially to work with autistic children. In fact I've read a few books about this argument: for example one is "The curious Incident of the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon and a psycology book that describes exactly what autism is by Uta Frith,a psycology teacher who works in a London university and I found this book very interesting even if it is for psycologists.
So, I think I've said enough about me and my wish to spend a year abroad but there are still a lot of things that you should know about me and that I can offer you and I am very thankful for this opportunity and I hope to share my feelings with you and I hope that you ,hosting me, feel as glad as I am going to be, being a part of your family.
see you soon!
allalala.
Stavo quasi per dimenticare un particolare molto importante: le città in cui potrei andare sono:
Bristol, Manchester, Brighton, Birmignham e Liverpool. In teoria ci sarebbe anche Edimburgo ma ho parlato con STS e ho chiesto se si potesse evitare e hanno detto che lo riferiranno al partner estero ma non è sicuro.
Alla fine mi piacciono tutte come città, la maggiore distanza da Londra è meno di tre ore e ognuna ha delle peculiarità.
Bristol-----> skins, è sul mare. 90 minuti da Londra , e ho visto delle foto di street art meravigliose e anche la città in sé sembra bellissima. ( info su questo sito )
Manchester-----> gli Oasis sono nati a Manchester! E anche gli smiths!Inoltre sembra che lì si risparmi un po' in quanto a costo della vita ed è rinomata per le biblioteche.
Liverpool-------> Beatles!! E' anche la città con più musei e gallerie d'arte a parte Londra ed è sul mare! E il piano architettonico della città è bellissimo.Meno di due ore e mezzo dalla capitale.
Brighton---------> Si deve anche spiegare quanto sia bella Brighton? Sull'oceano, a meno di un'ora da Londra e piena di attrazioni e luoghi per ragazzi, la chiamano la Londra sul mare e i tramonti sono spettacolari.
Birmingham--------> Dalle foto sembra avere dei palazzi bellissimi e ha una biblioteca meravigliosa, ha anche un fiume! Non ho mai vissuto in una città con un fiume! Per finire dista 2 ore e trenta da Londra,sempre fattibile.
Insomma, direi che non mi andrebbe male nessuna di queste, sono davvero entusiasta e frenetica. So di aver scritto tanto ma dovevo recuperare i giorni di assenza e spero di potervi scrivere a breve. Prima del 24 possibilmente perché quel giorno parto per Istanbul ( non vedo l'ora!!).
Ah, quasi dimenticavo. Sto pensando di tagliarmi i capelli a caschetto, tipo così
Finalmente vi abbandono e vi lascio con una nuova artista che ho scoperto recentemente.
Chiedetemi tutto quello che volete e commentate se avete qualche consiglio o opinione, può farmi solo piacere, non siate timidi c:
