More facts about Italy

Today in school we learned that Italy is the country in western europe with highest rate of people not knowing how to use conputers. Italy is also on the top three after spain and England not knowing a second language. I'm not overly surprised over these facts but what do surprise me is the school that keeps coming up with all these negative facts about the country where all the students have choosen to live. Imagne if the italians would go to sweden and immediately would learn that sweden got most stress problems in the world, highest suicide rates, more darkness than sunlight etc etc. Doesn't make sence!

Tonight I was supposed to go clubbing at Old fashion again but then someone suggested to watch a movie instead so I ended up staying in watching "Ti amo in tutte le lingue del mondo" (just having a short break right now). I looove romantic Italian movies, gimme more!!

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Talkative Italians

In Sweden I always complained people are so reserved and sometimes a bit cold. If you suddenly start talking to a stranger on the tube they would most probably think you're wierd.

When living in Bologna I just loved the fact that friendly people would start talking to you absolutely everywhere.... Old men on the piazzas, young girls in the stores, old women on the bus etc

After deciding I would move to /Italy, but before I choose which city some people told me that the people in Milano are less open minded than in the rest of Italy. In Milano they would never start talking to you just like that on the street.... Yea right... It happens to me every single day. Obviously sometimes it annoys me but most of the time I love it.

Tonight I went for aperitivo with Ida, a Swedish girl who lives here in Milano that I've been in contact with online for a while. We went out for a drink to talk and to get to know eachother... As soon as we came to the bar someone started talking to us. We sat down at a table and managed to talk for maybe 10 minutes and then two guys comes up and decided to join our table. When they left we managed to talk another 5 minutes before three a bit older men sitting at the table next to us starts talking to us too. Incredible! It was a nice and interesting evening. Didn't get to know Ida very well but we're both here in Milano to stay so we got plenty of time for that later on :)

Time to sleep. Buona notte.
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Very few Italian kids are born in these days

Today my teacher was off sick so my group was placed in the most advanced class for a day. The whole day we had to read, discuss and write about what political problems Italy is facing today. Jezez, we could go on forever; economical probs, unemployment, immigrants, rasism, too many high educated, no babies are born etc etc Very interesting and I learned a lot but very tiring to discuss such important subjects in Italian, because obvisouly I had lots to say about it.... Now my brain is dead.

What mostly interested me was the fact that Italy is the country were less kids are born in the whole world. According my teacher its because the italian girls choose a career before kids. They have 9 months maturnity leave here and also the family normally helps out a lot so I don't see the point. But I was told the italian girls gets married quite young but that's enough, marrage but no kids. When I think about it the banker girls I was out with for dinner last weekend said they are looking for the love of their life but they don't want kids.... Seems like the Italians are in danger of becoming extinct???

Now I just came home, need to get change and then I go for "aperitivo dinner" with another swedish blogger who lives here in Milano :)

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Pasquetta Evening

As tonight it?s Eriks last night in Milano we decided to go for some drinks with some friends of mine. We started of in a very pretty wine bar called Cantine Isole in the "china town area" after that we went to Bar novecento in Corso Como. It was me, Erik, Una, Etore (Una's bf), Claudia and Marco. Very nice gang!

Now we're on our way home as Erik is leaving early tmw morning :(

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Ps. No comments that Im wearing my big winter jacket and a scarf when all the rest just have a t shirts and small leather jackets. But its just 10 degrees in the night and I'm cold!! Sa det sa! ;)
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Gelateria Marghera

In the guidebook I got from Valeria as a leaving present it said Gelateria Marghera had Milano's best icecream and here we are, far away in the middle of nowhere watching crazy italians fighting for their icecream. The streets around in the area are empty but here it's packed. People are parking their cars and vespas everywhere bkocking the street and there's a massive queue even outside the bar.

Miss love trying new things (me) obviously had to try it and... it was amazing. The icecream season is starting off soon and here in Milano there's no Lelio (my flatmate in Bologna) controlling me not to eat more than two icecreams a day like he had to do five years ago when I lived in Bologna ;) I can't help it, I just looooooove Italian icecream!!!

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Pasquetta

Easter Monday, still a festive day here in Italy. Today the sun is shining and its 18degrees warm, niiice!!

Erik woke me up at 10am this morning and after a quick breakfast we immediately went out. We've been walking from my house to the opposite side of town and we've seen lots of nice parks and piazzas on the way. Now we're having picknick lunch in front of castello Sforzesco and later we'll walk into the big park "parco sempione" looking for some icecream. Lovely day!!!

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Rainy day in Milano

Three pics from our rainy day around Milano...Me outside the museum, Erik in front of il duomo and a Erik and a big easter egg outside La Scala opera house.

Now it's movie time. We gonna watch the Italian movie "Il Divo" that very kindly Ekko downloaded to me before I left London. Should be good but its all in advanced italian and without subtitels so its gonna be a good lesson for both of us :)

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