3dr Skype Xchange: political elections :-(

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Hi, guys!

How are you? I must admit I'm quite tired in these days and my best expression when I wake up is something similar to the dog's one! :-( We're right in the middle of the semester and my language courses are very very VERY demanding. Both in Spanish and English course, we're supposed to do papers, projects, exercises, translations, compositions...I have to respect too many deadlines! It's terrible! I'd like to prepare an exam by the end of April but it's quite impossible because I haven't time enough to study! I feel soooo frustrated! :-(((

Well, let's speak about something different. This afternoon we had our third Skype exchange. Since I was very tired, I had to gather together to concentrate and to speak English as correctly as possible. I spoke only with Marigny at first but then a peer of mine added to our discussion, so we created a conference. At the beginning, speaking in three was an hard task. You know, speaking at the telephone is always hard, because it isn't a face-to-face conversation. Try to image how difficult could it be when you speak in a foreign language! However, after few minutes of confusion, we started a very interesting discussion about politics and politicians. I liked speaking in three very much because in this way the discussion turned out to be more lively.

As I said, we spoke about politics and politicians. I sent to Marigny the links to watch some interesting videos, like Obama girl and the ones about Berlusconi and Veltroni. We discussed about them, about our impressions...Personally, I'm still shocked about the official video of PDL's campaign...At the end of it, there're some young guys singing all together. In the background, there's the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro, which is in Rome. It was built during Mussolini's regime and it represents the fascism for the world! :-O I mean, Rome is full of beautiful monuments...I'm sure that's a planned choice. I begin to fear for our future!

Anyway, I don't want to express my opinions about Italian politics here...Let's go back to the exchange. Well, we not only spoke about politics but also about our future. Marigny wanted to know which kind of job would we like to do in our future. So we explained her what a mediatore linguistico is supposed to be and we spoke about the difficulties we'll have to find a job...It was a very interesting discussion!

I'm getting more and more involved in this Skype exchange...Marigny and I are in contact also by email and by Facebook! ;-)

See you next week,

Martina