More about the Future: MEME

First off, LEAVE a MESSAGE or take the POLL (below right)! We want to know where you are from, and who you are, and IF YOU ARE READING!?! Yoohoo! IS there anybody out there?!?

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Secondly, as you have most likely already read below, we have been talking about the future, how it will affect us, and how it will affect the world around us. After making the list of how the world would change in 50 years, we decided to think about how things will change in half that time: what the world will be like in 25 years. We decided to put together a "Time Capsule," or a box filled with things that are relevant to life today, that should be opened on this date 25 years from now. The items in the box are also accompanied by a letter.

Dear future of 2032,
We are a group of students that is attending an English course in Macerata, Italy. We have been talking about the future, and we decided to put some things about today's world in a box for you.

Time Capsule from 28 September, 2007

- News Magazine

- a pair of Italian shoes

- Style Magazine

- a pair of glasses

- a disposable camera ready to be used

- a cell phone, an ipod, and a walkman (with a tape in it)

- a picture of our group

- stylish jewelry

- Harry Potter books


- instruments: a flute and a small electric keyboard

- Aspirin

- postcards

- t-shirts

- questions about the future

- ball point pens and paper

- stamps

What do you think we should add to the list? Do you think all of the stuff we mentioned is necessary? Make your own list (your own Time Capsule) and participate in our MEME!

Worst Travel Experiences!

For a class activity, we wrote up some of our worst travel experiences! From missed flights to disgusting food to heavy luggage, these trips are little nightmares. Here are a three of them:

Alessandro's Dilemma in Munich
My worst travel experience was when I went to Brussels. I took an airplane from Ancona to Brussels, with a connection in Munich. When I arrived in the Munich airport, I went to breakfast in a bar, forgetting that my flight for Brussels had only a short layover. When I got to the gate, my flight for Brussels had already left without me five minutes before! Unfortunately, the next flight wasn't for another five hours. However, the Lufthansa people were nice and let me go standby for free.

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Yucky Malta for Ombretta
My worst trip was when I went to Malta. I was 17 years old, and I left with my class for a cultural exchange program.

I'd never visited Malta before, and I was very excited to go. The worst thing was the that the organisation of the trip was terrible. We slept at a college with very dirty rooms. In fact, it was dirty everywhere, and there were only two toilets--one for girls and one for boys--even though there were 20 of us students! And don't even get me started about the food...the "cooks" fried the French Fries in the morning and we didn't eat them until later that evening for dinner...how gross!

Anyway, it was a very fun holiday week. Malta was very beautiful and I enjoyed myself very much when I was with my school mates, who were a very crazy group!

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Excess Baggage for Flavio
My worst travel experience was when I went to Rome for a job. For this job, the factory gave me a room in a beautiful hotel. I prepared a very full bag to bring with me, with many kinds of things inside. I left at 3 am, on a train, with my very heavy luggage.

After the first interview with my new employer ,I went to Florence, the final location of my new job, lugging my very heavy baggage along with me, to start my job experience the next day.

It was a very stressful trip, because my inappropriate baggage was too heavy and too big.

All about the Future

Yesterday we were talking about how old we will be when we are 50 years older and what our life will be like...then we decided to widen our search and we began to talk about: "What will the world be like in 50 years?"

1. It will be hotter

2. There will be less land (the land will be flooded)

3. Many cities won't exist anymore (we think cities like Venice and the entire country of Holland will disappear)

4. We will live on other planets or the moon.

5. There will be new technologies at home:
- washing machines will talk
- there will be robots
- beds will make themselves
- clothing won't need to be ironed (we hate ironing!)

6. Cars will fly

7. There won't be any more factory workers, because machines will take over their jobs. The life of the craftsman will change.

8. Globalization and immigration will change the food in Italy. We will eat more international food here.

9. Food will cook itself (we're still trying to figure out how, though). There won't be any more cooks or chefs!

10. Animals will finally speak! (so THAT'S what Fluffy is always trying to say!)

11. Certain diseases and illnesses will no longer exist.

What about you? How do you think the world will be? Please, add your opinions or correct what, according to you, won't change! More on this topic soon...

Blowin' In The Wind Cast

Welcome Readers!

Just a quick message to welcome any readers to our blog--we hope that we have a few people reading, and we would love to hear from you in comments, etc.! In fact, we've just added a poll so that we can get to know our readers better...we are English students, and we want to know what languages YOU are learning (or would like to learn)!

Looking forward to feedback, comments, and meme participation! Thanks!

Blowin' in the Wind Cast

Amazing Virtual Race: MEME!

Reality TV, anyone? Yesterday we read about the American TV show The Amazing Race for the first time, and we learned about the teams involved, the challenges at hand, and what it takes to participate. We decided the best idea would to be to set up a little contest of our own: so we made up 3 teams as well as a group of interviewers, and we decided to have try-outs for our own version of The Amazing Race, Italian style. Our teams are:


Ombretta and Martina


Sandro and Azzurra


Irene and Flavio


The verdict is still out on the winner, but to make things a little more interesting, we thought the blogging world might like to participate too? So we're listing our questions here (the same questions we asked our potential participants), and you can either answer directly in our comments section, or blog your own responses! Make sure to let us know if you're responding, so that we can read your answers too! So, without further ado...here are the questions!

1. Are you afraid of wild animals?
2. Do you like adventure?
3. What are your dreams and ambitions?
4. What kind of films do you prefer?
5. Do you think that you will find a new love interest if you participate?
6. Are you reliable?
7. Do you like extreme sports?
8. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
9. Why are you interested in participating in a show like this one?
10. Do you like travelling around the world?

Looking forward to your answers! Thank you!

-the Blowin' in the Wind cast

Starting Out

Welcome to our blog! We are a group of students of different ages, and we want to learn English! We are currently participating in a ten-day English course to get better...and we decided to start a blog to follow our progress! Come visit it everyday...you can get to know us!!

Comments are more than welcome, too!