Start again | CPE project 2016/2017

Yes, I know, I'm a horrible human being, it's been a year since my last post and many things have changed: I have changed, my life has changed - in an incredible positive way - and even this blog is going to change, taking a new path. But let's go back to the beginning otherwise I'll be chaotic as hell. 

In the first day of April 2016, I finally graduated from University - in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation, as you probably know - and after few weeks I went to England - specifically to Brighton and just for a month - to study English and try to live on my own. I stayed with an amazing host family - that I incredibly miss, now - and it was one of the best moments in my "entire" life. 

I was so happy there, meeting new, amazing and special people, who immediately became close friends, drinking so much beer with them and improving my communication skills, that in the end it was so hard to repack all my stuff and leave, knowing that I won't have been back as soon as I wished. 

So, with the "Brighton Experience" constantly in my thoughts and heart, I came back home where hard times were waiting for me. I studied French, from zero, to take some university tests in order to complete my graduation with the second-level degree. Unfortunately, even though I spent my entire summer studying French and English, the odds were not in my favour. I failed, indeed, after working so hard I failed and it's the first time I say it out loud. At least I tried, I did something that was absolutely bigger than me. But after all, it was not a total disaster, I've just discovered that my name is in the waiting list, so all is not lost. 

Maybe it was just fate, maybe I'm not ready yet to study what I love, but I cannot stop, I need to keep going and grow as a person and as a linguist, so here I am, writing in English on this blog for the first time in forever and wondering if there are too many grammar mistakes. But the most important question now is: Why am I writing this in another language? The answer is really simple.  

I've just started studying English at the British Council in Naples, and the first task our teacher asked us to do was to create a blog and write about our English course, from the beginning to the end, in May 2017. So why do not re-use the blog in which I used to express all my love for fictional things? 

Because I'm too lazy to create another blog, chose the template and modify it from zero?... Yes, maybe, but also because here you can find all that I love, form the act of writing to photography, passing through music, make-up, food, video games and other things, perhaps too many things.

Writing about this course will definitely be the hardest things to do. I like writing both in English and in Italian but I'm not a rambling person, especially when it comes to essays or general homework like this. Of course I'll try, like I'm doing right now.

So, last Saturday was the first time I saw my class mates and my new teacher, who has the same name of my English teacher in Brighton. (What a coincidence!) The first impact was really positive, the teacher is good and funny, he also uses the same teaching and "knowing-eachother" methods used by the teacher in Brighton (again, what a coincidence).
All the class mates are really kind and friendly and we have many things in common too. How do I know this? No, I'm not a stalker, I know this because during the lesson our teacher let us play some games to gave us the chance to know each others and although it was quiet embarrassing at the beginning, I really enjoyed it. I find out that I'm not the only one, some class mates like the same stuff I like, and it was kinda strange to find it out but at the same time it was - of course - amazing.

What do I expect from this course? 
Attending this CPE course, I expect to learn all the advanced-grammar-stuff I've missed at the University because of bad (bad) teachers and also to stop doing stupid mistakes when I speak.
Usually, when it comes to speaking with someone I don't know, I get anxious and I start gesticulating, mumbling and stuttering. That's really frustrating because I forget every grammar or syntactic rule I've ever known and I make terrible mistakes, that a wannabe-english-translator should not make.
I'll work this problem out during the course, for sure, helped by the fact that everyone in the class is a stranger for me, or at least they are at the moment.

I hope that by the time the course ends I'll have the ability to pass the CPE exam or the CAE, I've not chosen yet which exam I'll take, of course. But I've faith and I'll work hard, so I guess everything is going to be right. Or at least I hope so.



At the moment, these are the only things I'm able to put down in words. I hope that everything is clear, and I beg your pardon if there are too many mistakes. I promise that the next post will be written better than this one.



Ps: Sorry if I did not write so much about myself but I'm not so good at this. I don't really like talk about what I love or I like.




If you're reading this, thanks, it means that I did not waste my week writing something that nobody cares about.
See you next week!


T.S.  - Ipswich