Photos from Montreal

In the first photo I'm with Sebastian (left) and André (right), all of us drunk (or almost)....
In the second and third photos there are all friends met at Royal Holloway, really cool to stay again all together!! In particular, Chimene is the girl in the center on the third photo!).
Then the last photo I'm with Chimene's friend, great person, with italian origin and still a good italian; in the order, (Chimene), Saba, Tania and Alessandro!

Montreal

Hi guys,
Montreal is great, I really love this city! I'm still trying to understand why but I really like this city and how the people are! First, canadian people love italians (especially girls...), then the city is quite nice and the country looks different from U.S. and Europe...it's just in the middle, a cool mix of them!
My friend Chimene pick me up at the airport, she was astonishing, such a beautiful girl....anyway, she show me montreal on the way for going home but we first stopped to have a coffee in Tania's friend bar.
Then I've met André, my other ex Royal Holloway friend and we went in a nice pub for start drinking....shit, Montreal (and Canada in general) is too expensive for alcohol, if I knew in advance I could buy something at the duty free!!!! :-(
Anyway, we met nice girls like Sara and then we went to Central Station for dance with all French speaker people...too hard to set up a conversation....
Saturday night was really really cool, one of my best saturday night of this world trip! Chimene have just made 25 years old and thus she organized a great birthday party! We went in a cheap restaurant (we bring our own drink!) and we get so drunk that anyone have ate anything....they served the foot too late, alcohol was already inside our vein!!!
Around 12.30pm we went to "pure", a small club in downtown, nice place but basically empty...but anyway, we have had great time since we were 25-30 people and thus it was nice to dance all together (free entrance and vodka at the table....I'e never seen a such big bottle of vodka, I couldn't serve it without a second hand!!!).
Then we went home by taxi, too funny since in the back there was Sebastian throw up all the time.... :-)
We took all the next day to recovery that night, both me and André were so hangover that we couldn't do too much: after a nice lunch (surrounded by liters of water!!) with his family we went again in downtown but we felt so tired that we stopped quite soon in a bar for relax a little bit! Then we met some André's friends but they don't really speak english, so I couldn't really have a good conversation, but at the same time I've learnt some french....
And now that the week start again, me and Chimene should start visit Montreal, but those first 2 days we always get up to late (average 12am) and so we haven't had the time to visit too many places...but it's fine, trust me, it's good to chill out! :-)

Last days in New York...

Let's start from tuesday night, NBA game, Nets against Indiana, 2-2 the current score! What a great night, for a basketball fans as me watching an NBA game was great, really cool! We've payed for the cheapest ticket, then we moved in more expensive seats for free (basically we just waited to see where there were free seats and then we have been there expecting to have that seats!!! :-)
At the end the score was 87-82 for the Nets, and I'm happy that they won, now they're on the second round (they won the series 4-2) and they've to play against Heat Miami!
Anyway, something that really immpressed me about U.S. is about security: even at the NBA game it wasn't allow to take photos or movie, it was against the copyright...something that I've never seen in an italian soccer game!!! More serious, it's sad to see policy checking my videocamera if there were photos made from any bridge of new york!! Yes, they've controlled my camera since they saw me taking photos: it's not allow anymore after 11th Semptember!!! (Anyway, they didn't found any photos since I've deleted them as soon as possible before to show them the memory card...)
The next few days I've had relaxing days spending with Franco and Anna, in particular the last night with Anna was cool since we tried to get in at Cobacabana but then we went to "The View", a nice bar in Times Square, famous since you can see all New York from a mobile platform, routing around one of of the bigger skyscraper in Manhattan! Cobacabana is completely crap, they don't have any web site and thus they haven't put any advice about the fact that thursday night was rent for another private event! :-(
After The View we went (me, Anna and a scottish guy, Conor) in a club called "H Hotel", really cool but a little bit expensive! Nice girls as well but without the right people to pick them up.....
And thus, after a really sportive driving to the airport (made by Concezio, Franco and Anna 's father) I've arrived to JFK airport, ready to leave definitively New York...and instead, another funny problem came out: after the check-in I've been to the departure gate but the metal detector stopped me for more than 10 minutes....but not for any metal stuff, no, for the stupid cop working there! First, they scanned my bag with my Mac inside and they said me it wasn't allow since the laptop must be scanned in a separated box. Then, after have scanned both bag and laptop, they asked me my boarding card, card already showed 3 times before to arrive at that point and that so I believed that never asked me anymore, and finally, they made a full check of my body: they controlled everything, I don't know what they were looking for, I was the unique one which have had a such long control......but at the end everything was fine, I was laughting with the cop and I gained access to the duty free zone! Montreal, I'm coming......

Just photos..

Johnston, Providence (Rhode Island).... and M.I.T.!

Dear friends,
last week was great, I really have had good time and I've passed nice days with my relatives.
I'm arrived to Providence on monday 24th and now, only one week later, I'm coming back to New York...yes, I'm still writing from the Bonanza-bus (i've just finish to watch a good movie, Dreamers, and now I've decided to update my blog...). Today is raining as the day when I'm arrived but during all the week it was every day sunny, really cool!

Anyway, let's start talk about some interesting stuff (I don't remember everything but I will write an overall):
the first couple of days I haven't done too much, I was lucky to have found a free wireless connection where I was living (Rose's house, my cousine) and thus I've spent enough time during the day looking for a job and/or a Master course to do in Semptember (in this period I'm quite confused about my future...). I was nice to have seen again all my american relatives, good memories since I've lived here for almost 2 months on 2003..3 years ago, shit, time go fast!!
Anyway, spend one week here was great for my luggage since I've bought nice clothes and some useful things...of course now my luggage is more heavy but I bought things that I really needed to buy...and here in Rhode Island things cost less than New York!!!

Anyway, my first big place that I've visit this week was the M.I.T. (for ignorant it's the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a U.S. institute of higher education, famous for scientific and technical research...basically I consided it the heart, the head of all the technology), a really cool university in Boston, too expensive and hard to study there but iit was good to have spent few hours over there and have had a look around!! I've also bought a T-shirt, good souvenir!).

Other places where I went weren't really interesting to report here, but just beacuse those are places where already have been 3 years ago and so know I'm not so excited to talk about it!
During the weekend I've play pool with my aunt Luisa, I've been in a couple of pubs looking for the called "boobiesluts"... :-)
and saturday night, a really cool night, I've been first to Dominic's parents house, we've drank all the possible cocktail and then of course, in the highway, I've throw up....but the night was just started so in the first (and maybe only, I don't remember, I was too drunk!) pub I've had a couple of beers and I was feeling better (yes, no water, never!)....and of course I can't end this post without talk about hot dog, fish and chips, cheeseburger and all the other sfutt that punctuality every night we have ate...you can't imagine how many hot-dog Anthony have had that night...I was really starving...

Finally, last night, sunday, I've been to Dominic house for visit his beautiful family...last time I was here I've spent one night with them and it was really funny but I can't tell you why, too long stories and such good memories...

What come next? Right, now I'm almost arrived to Manhattan, I've to bring a really heavy luggage to brooklyn and then go to New jersey (which is on the other side/direction) for watch an NBA game!!! Yes, I can't wait, Nets against Indiana (they are actually 2-2 so it will be a great game), it's a playoff game!
Then next few days I will try to film some other sides of New York and I will try finally to get in at Cobacabana, one of the most famous latin-club in New York....I will let you know in the next post how the club is!

Take care

Andrea


P.s: ONLY FOR ITALIAN FRIENDS: Scusatemi se non scrivo anche in italiano ma tradurre tutto quello che ho scritto porterebbe via un bordello di tempo, quindi abituatevi a leggere in inglese e se non lo sapete sono ca... vostri...trovatevi un traduttore?! :-)
Cmq per chi non sa l'inglese dico sono che tutto va bene e che mi sto a divertire un sacco, poi al ritorno vi racconteró di piú, ciao ciao!