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Un cordiale benvenuto a farewell (Monia) e Marvit (Maria Vittoria)... :)

antonella e hildegard

antonella e hildegard, originally uploaded by renatela.

la vita è dura... la tipica espressione di Hildegard durante la lezione di Economia Applicata. We all were very perplexed at the beginning of this course but “piano piano” seems we are understanding what the professor Magni wanted from us some months ago. E' meglio dopo che mai, no ?

professore magni

professore magni, originally uploaded by renatela.

il nostro grande professore Carlo Magni, non ci sono tanti come lui..

i think he will be one of these who we'll remember with pleasure after this course.

calore del colore

sedia, originally uploaded by renatela.

Sometimes the things look different than they are.

hm...

siaubiakas, originally uploaded by renatela.

senza parole.

monia and franca clear up the things

monia and franca clear up the things, originally uploaded by renatela.

let's not break the rules of the house.

TRAKSHT TRABAKSHT BUM...

broken.

I piatti sono fatti - lavorano tutti i tre. Beata io, ho fotografato e basta.. :)

monia is angry

monia is angry, originally uploaded by renatela.

Ragazzi, one essential rule - a casa di Monia ospiti non fanno i piatti. The problem is, that Franca and Maurizio also had their own rules, which were al contrario di quella di Monia. Ecco, la guerra calda..

studying- how many of us are here?

studying, originally uploaded by renatela.

Yesterday we did it. You ask me "what?", I answer you - "groupwork". You ask me "and how did it go?", I answer you - "oh very well, we had a delicious cena"--- Thanks, Monia :)

papaveri

aguonos, originally uploaded by renatela.

Maurizio moved to live in Pavia and in the same street like mine so we happened to go home together and I saw these red flames sparkling near the river... Grazie, per aspettarmi, Maurizio.

una giornata fredda

valgymas auloje, originally uploaded by renatela.

It's too cold to go out and eat there...

shadows

seseliai koridoriuje, originally uploaded by renatela.

have you ever noticed how correctly and neatly falls the shadow?

my neighbours

mano kaimynai, originally uploaded by renatela.

Maurizio and Franca are my 'teachers', when I don't understand something in Italian, I ask them, and probably they lose some part of the lecture trying to explain me.. scusatemi, ah?... Grazie, ragazzi.

presentation

presentation, originally uploaded by renatela.

Ok, just to remember that I was also there...

cortile delle magnolie

cortile di magnolie, originally uploaded by renatela.

se non sbaglio, these trees are called 'magnolia'. And this yard is a really nice one, calm and with shadows, so probably during the sunny days it will be full of students..

That family I found there on Saturday. What am I doing here on Saturday??

group work

aulos vaizdas, originally uploaded by renatela.

We are very very 'group' working people:) yeah, we are!

My experience of studies in Finland was very different from this in Italy. In the land of Santa Claus was very difficult to communicate and to involve my group mates in some work together, while in Italy everyone are more open and available for discussion. Probably that's the part of the culture, what do you think?

Comunque, non parliamo ancora dei risultati del nostro lavoro del gruppo.. :)

beee...

beee..., originally uploaded by renatela.

No comment.
:)
:P

Principessa and her bodyguard

franca pranza, originally uploaded by renatela.

Ok, finally one 'normal' photo of Franca. And again about lunch break.

I should make that photo set about lunch...

I really should...

green sadness

green sadness, originally uploaded by renatela.

Oh, Franca, she's great in making faces :) She used to take care of kids and I'm sure she was playing a clown with them.. Ma dai, Franca, fammi fare almeno una foto 'normale' di te!!

hildegard

hildegard, originally uploaded by renatela.

Hildegard - she's Pavese and she speaks with "rhhhh" French like Davide. Bellissimo! She was the first who I talked to when we came for an interview for this master and she was very nice to show me around and offer her help.

Another thing, she reminds me very much one my very good friend from Lithuania... that makes me think - probably in this world we have some people who look similar to us, but we hardly meet them. Usually it's our friends or people we know that say "oh, you know, that person looks like you..!"

I personally would love to meet another person like me. Just to see how I look from the back ..:)

it is mine

it is mine, originally uploaded by renatela.

Mi viene fame guardando...

monia ha fame

monia ha fame, originally uploaded by renatela.

Hammm.....
Guardare e invidiare - that's all what remains for those who eat fast, giusto, Giuseppe?

monia and her panino

monia and her panino, originally uploaded by renatela.

Facciamo una gara - chi porta un panino più gustoso, più grande, più "nice looking"? Seems like I could make a whole set of the lunch photos and Monia is definitely a STAR in this field :)

prof. Scarpa prova a spiegarci

scarpa spiega, originally uploaded by renatela.

Ok, that's the famous course of "Analisi dei dati" with prof.Scarpa.

University

koridorius, originally uploaded by renatela.

University of Pavia is an old one.

"Fondazione a Pavia di uno Studium generale dal quale deriva l'Università , risale all'imperatore Carlo IV, nel 1361, dietro sollecitazione di Galeazzo II Visconti duca di Milano".

And I have never studied in a university so nice and so old. Gives some feeling of centuries...

davide

davide, originally uploaded by renatela.

He's from Pavia. A local one. A real Pavese. And I love how he speaks, sounds like speaking French, with 'rrrrhhhh'....

Who wears red shoes?

kojos mariani franca, originally uploaded by renatela.

The answer is unique: famous Marco Mariani, our professor of Strategic Management (who uses to say mAnAgement and pronounce A like in a word "march" or "mars", but seems that all Italians have this 'particolarità':) Comunque, lui è bravo. And makes us laugh and creates a very motivating learning environment. Ah.

Strategic management

francesca maurizio franca, originally uploaded by renatela.

The course which is the most interesting for me for one reason: that's what I have studied all my 'university life' and now I have an opportunity to learn the terms of management in Italian.

But for other guys it's something new and quite amusing :)

francesca

francesca, originally uploaded by renatela.

During the break after the first lecture.

What we do in life?

michela ant laiptu, originally uploaded by renatela.

Seems that most of us, who take part in this master course, have recently graduated or were not able to find some work for a longer time. However, some of students are working. And working in the places which are "abbastanza impressionante". Like Michela, she works in 'questura' but she's not a policewoman. Ah, bel lavoro questo...

I have read somewhere the survey saying that women adore men in uniforms. I wonder, what's the percentage of men who feel more attracted to a lady in uniform? Michela, stai attenta!

Concentration

luca davide, originally uploaded by renatela.

Luca and Davide. Very concentrated. After the lunch. Very concentrated...

Sunny lunch

maria juokiasi, originally uploaded by renatela.

- smiling and shining. She's Maria Vittoria and she's the first person who I met having two names. Cool. I'm considering to add some name for me too.. What about..? -- let me think.

P.S. I feel that the phrase with "who I met" and "having" isn't correct, but can't figure out how to write it in a more decent way. Gosh, my English is deteriorating not in months but in days. I hope this weblog will make me to remember something...

maurizio and giuseppe

maurizio giuseppe, originally uploaded by renatela.

During the lunch break: discussing the news of politics and sport - let's not forget, we're in Italy!

monia

monia, originally uploaded by renatela.

after the lunch - ...

la vita è bella.

No photos, please!

monia juokiasi, originally uploaded by renatela.

She said "nobody succeeds to take a photo of me", ah, peccato, but I just photographed her without knowing that... By the way, she's Monia :)

Lunch break - Pausa di Pranzo

pietus, originally uploaded by renatela.

My stomach starts complaining before midday. I look around and meet the eyes of Monia and I see that she's going through the same situation. Doh... Here's another hour to go untill the break of lunch at 1:00 pm when we all go out in the yard of university and will open our bags searching for "panino" brought from home or bought in the nearest bar.

Is it healthy? Let's not ask ourselves such questions. Is it cheap? Yes. We received a discount card which allows us 2 days per weak to eat in the "mensa" of university and pay only 5 EUR, but it's quite much...

And it's a perfect moment to catch some sun rays and warm your old bones...

Computers are our friends or..?

dipartimento, originally uploaded by renatela.

Spending all the day in the classroom full of PCs makes me sick. And it doesn't end here as we continue working on PC after the lectures as well.

Information society, no?..

Give me a glass of milk, per favore...

franca e davide studiano

franca e davide studiano, originally uploaded by renatela.

That photo is taken in early April when we were working on the 'esercizi' of course in "Economia Applicata". I should write more about this course, because it's really worth to be described in more details. Will work on this later.

Secret smile

monia su davide auloj, originally uploaded by renatela.

Do you remember that old song of ... eh.. Semisonic(?) called "Secret smile".. however, after the long day of the lectures there's nothing better than a good friendly smile to keep you up in spirit.

Studying in three

trys dipartimente, originally uploaded by renatela.

in the department of Statistics. Monia, Davide e Maurizio exploring "tutta la bellezza di statistica".. probably you won't believe, but this subject became interesting even for me!

official introduction

"Master in Ricerca su Società, Mercato e Territorio - è un master ideato per rispondere alla vasta domanda delle imprese industriali, commerciali e di servizi e di enti, organizzazioni e istituzioni pubbliche nei confronti di figure professionali esperte nell’analisi e nella valutazione quantitativa di problematiche di marketing, nello studio della società e nella misurazione di informazioni che incidono sul territorio. "

Ok. That's what they said in their announcement. And here we are - 14 students in this master at University of Pavia, Italy. And I'm the only "straniera", foreigner in this group. Maybe that's the reason why I am noticing so many strange (nice or not so nice) things in this study program, in the environment of university, in relations of students with teachers and friendship among students...

I like to take photos. For me, it's like capturing a moment of your life and conserving it for the future. Sometimes happens, that only these captured "photo" moments remain and all else vanish. So, I thought, why not to capture these moments of our experience in this master?...

I hope to post here some photos of my group and I would wish to make this "space" attractive for all my groupmates... We'll see how I succeed... If I find some free time from 'analisi di dati' course... :)