Cisco on the Ground: September 2007

Italy at the top!

Italy at the top! During this weekend a lot of things happened that made me very happy!!!

Italy has the world woman champion of bike on the road: Marta Bastianelli! She won on Saturday.

Italy has the world man champion of bike on the road: Paolo Bettini! He won today.

Italy has the Europan woman volleyball champion! They won today.

Finally a lot of satisfations! Forza Italia!

Back to university

Now I'm wondering: why am I at university? For the most of the people the answer is pretty obvious: "Studying". Well, actually for me it's very different and I'll tell you why.

I've spent 2 years in Milan and I've lived a lot of experiences and I've started to walk through a long road that will bring me to realize my dreams. this long road has a name and it is personal development.

From the 1st of July I'm back in Pisa and from Monday I've started to attend classes after 3 years that I don't even go to a lesson. Can you imagine the shock. I want to add something: my mates are much younger than me (obviously, at least 2 years) and, maybe this is the point, they have a totally different mind then me. They really seem to be more immature and inexperienced and I really feel sometime a lot of distance between them and me.

About these few lessons that I took part to, I've noticed also some changes in me as student then before leaving to Mila. I'm more interested in learning and participating, let's say more proactive. did I learn something from my AIESEC experience? Probably this is the right attitude to move some steps forward on my personal development path. Anyway, I've a question now:

is it a step back or a step forward?

Carmen Consoli live from Pisa

Yesterday night I had the pleasure to go to a concert that took place in Pisa.

The singer on the stage was Carmen Consoli (click here for her web site) a popular Italian singer from Catania, Sicily.

Actually I don't like her so much, but I've to admit that she has a great voice and the music was very good. My only concern is about the texts of the songs: without much meaning and very confusing. By the way it was pretty nice, even if close to the end of the concert it started to rain and we had to escape.

I went there with some friends of mine and it was nice to stay togeather: we had dinner there with sausages and french fries and then we moved to the square of the concert. Above you can find the video of a song. Enjoy it even if the audio quality is not as good as I imagined.

Cheers!

One minute of silence for we don't have to forget

And now the video of the wedding!

Congratulations to Marco & Stefania: newlyweds!!!

Yeahhhhh! A new couple just born. And it was so amazing that it's very difficult for me to tell you what happened!

Lets me start from the begin... In 2003, when I was Local Committee President in AIESEC Pisa, Marco & Stefania opened the door of the office and told me: "I want to be in AIESEC!" From that moment they started to make some great experiences in AIESEC (they went to IDC in India in 2004 or 2005, I don't remember and Marco was VPX and LCP in the committee). but, overall we were friends.

At the end of my vacation in Sicily this summer I received an email with this object: "You're invited for a buffet to celebrate Marco & Stefania wedding". You can't imagine my face at that moment: my mouth was completely opened looking at the screen and I was wondering: what the hell??? Yep, they were going to marry!

So, with some AIESEC friends, we had a super buffet on Monday (almost one week ago) and had so much fun together celebrating this amazing couple (they are younger then me... argh!). We made some typical games for a goodbye to celibacy and we drunk a lot. At the end of the party we moved outside in a square and we made a shower of spumante over their heads.

Then, yesterday, was the Day. The weeding! Stefania was so beautiful and Marco was so tired (he needs some sun now) and everything was perfect. Any word can explain better then pictures and movies, so have fun looking at them!

CONGRATULATIONS DEARS