1 month

Well it's been raining in Trento for awhile now, lovely if you are inside, ugly if you have to walk around. It's all about the balance!
I've just taken 2 chocolates and a coffee...approx 1 hour before having lunch! I'm such a pig.
And for the record...it'll be midnight in about 1hour in NZ which means 1 month before 6 years anniversary!

Almost there...

This long distance relationship is so hectic.

I've seen so many married couples in San Bartolomeo where one partner is in her/his home country with their children! heck, one hasn't even seen his recently-born daughter yet! It's so crazy. If i were them i couldn't have a long distance marriage relationship with the kids involved? I guess you never know until you're in it for real though. Maybe it works out just fine...But anyway, enough blabbing =)

Happy 5/11 anniversary to me & dave (x)

"Like morning sun you warm my soul ,some times at night you are the only light,and for the days in between you become my life..." david, jan 24, 2008

Snowtop Mountain

The formidable mountains,
bigger than the footsteps of men,
seemingly untouchable,
as they say-
the incapabilities of changing a human adult,
could it be that i see
the whiteness covered to remind you that life-
the strongest of all forces, the great land protruding nearer to the sun
allows the most delicatest sprinkles of snowflakes touch and cover it's grandeur like satin,
without a sound, without haste-
can it see it's own beauty? Such a beautiful thing, yet stronger still...
they say you cannot change a man but there are things we all appreciate
like the silloutte of snow on the untouchable, unreachable and the undestructable...

English Teaching

Marcello, 7, and Marina (who i've yet to meet), 13 will be my "students" for the rest of my stay in Italy. Quotations 'coz i only need to converse with them and play with them with the odd book-reading in between! So far, Marcello has shown me his favourite toys and drawings, he loves dinasours, pokemon and transformers! Go kiddo! I think i'll paint with him next week he seems talented from all the drawings i've seen on his wall...although...he ripped off some of them today as he felt they weren't good enough for him...

Anyway- things went well today, and was pleasantly suprised at such a modern house on a hilltop! Lovely!

Autumn in Trentino

Last weekend me and couple of my collegues visited the food stalls/outdoor restaurant temporarily setup for the Autumn festival in Trento.
Live singing, lots of people (+dogs) and of course food (no dogs here...haha)! Typical food from the mountaneous regions of Trento like speck, polenta, cheese etc.! Although this particular event has finished, you can check out the rest of the events here which will continue throughout the season of Autumn:

http://www.festivaldeiraccolti.it/events/autumn-in-trentino.htm

You can see the local (i presume) chefs cooking up a storm for roughly 100 people! And if you look closely there is a peculiar looking tortellini (purple colour so perhaps cabbage flavour??)!

Below you can also see my collegues enjoying the delightful food!

FBK

Foundation of Bruno Kessler or (FBK in short), is where im currently doing my internship {correctly known as "Stage" (pronounced "Staazsh" ^.^)}. Recently there was an annual party at the research centre, oh and for any of those who are interested in this research group (also some cool jobs on offer right now!) you can go to http://www.fbk.eu/. So as i was saying, i've got some pre-party pictures and a cute video of the younger family members of the researchers of the institute so enjoy!:

Yasemin and me looking all prettied up :)

Reflection shot of the main dance floor (of course before everybody started dancing!)

Yasemin and my dinner (and of course my first beer of the night ;))

Finally you can click below to see children playing with the cube-sofas before the party began- and you can hear the band warming up! :)