Category: Viaggi

Approaching a third life

During my first life I evolved in a very tiny area including all the places I had to go to (schools, home, civil service, university, boy scouts, the first job). It was an area of approximately 10 square kilometres.

In my second life I travelled the world: more than 20 countries in 4 continents (missing Oceania and Antarctic). Here is the list: Cambodia, South Africa, Mozambique, Macedonia, Guatemala, Bosnia, Albania, Palestine, Spain, UK, Chad, Togo, Cambodia, Botswana, Moldova, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Ecuador, Indonesia, Malawi, Belgium, Cambodia again, Ivory Coast (twice), Congo, Venezuela).

As for now, I am close to my third life; for the first time an indeterminate-time contract (‘il posto’), pension scheme, paid holidays, etc.

I should stay 4 years in the same place and then swap over to another country, for 3 or 4 times, until getting to my 4th life.

(à suivre)?..

Results

On April the 2nd 2004 I denounced in the blog “500 redundant meters” the painful trip passengers coming from or going to the Airport were obliged to do in order to get the train to Fiumicino.

The complaint was successful and after only three years (almost) the trains stops now on a regular way.

Still no way to get a ticket from the automatic machines, though.

Riferimenti: See the previous blog

Appeal: give floors a chance


Coming back from Ivory Coast I brought with me some of the paintings I drew down there. Not master pieces, but meaningful (for myself, of course?).

As there was not any room to hang them on our few walls, I did place one of them by the entrance door, in the floor.

It was a good idea, I think, contributing some colour to the floor space (normally quite anonymous if not hideous) and some elements (just few of them) to allow people passing by (not a lot at the eleventh and last floor) to understand what kind of people is living there (here).

That’s why I am launching this appeal to every tenant: get brushes and canvases, paint anything you feel (better if colourful), set a nail on the community wall (beware of administrators) and enjoy every homecoming since.

Bye bye.

Balance

Apart from some money this last trip to Ivory Coast didn’t bring me anything worth of.
I did not meet many new people, the job was almost inexistent and no news on the MMM’AL side.
I practiced a bit of tennis (just a bit, and not exactly good tennis), and I got malaria. Totting up: balance is in red.
Lesson learned: consider more carefully the place and the job; not a simple exercise.
Possibly out of Africa: Asia, South America or Northern Europe, why not.