His driving license has been suspended for some months, but he works in Milano while living in Bergamo. He now needs a place to stay and he is looking for a room.
Are you maybe looking for a nice flatmate? Here he is!
After failing in collecting questionnaires out of Coop supermarket (for my graduation thesis) because it was too cold, I spent the evening with Dino, Stella and Betti. We wandered around 'Everything for One Euro' and brazilian food shops, we had dinner together and then played the best table game ever: Cranium.
I was studying home, in my warm white room when my flatmate Ceci arrived with Antonio that cooked a superlunch: risotto with radicchio and red wine. I couldn't ask for more.
Isotta graduated in 'Interdisciplinary research and studies on eastern Europe' and, after spending a consistent part of her university years abroad, she decided to look for a job in Milano.
While unemployed, she kindly helped me administering surveys out of supermarkets for my graduation thesis. We could not imagine how hard it is to convince people that you are not selling them anything and that the survey is just your thesis empirical part!
At PanePasta, we've just decided to host people from Couchsurfing: the world comes at your place!
I already travelled with Couchsurfing as a guest, yesterday it was my first time as a host.
We accepted the request of these two kind guys coming from Vilnius. We had dinner together, drank their typical Lithuanian honey liqueur and then just went out for a walk.
and I even cooked him a bleeding veal fillet with mashrooms.
swimming pool + cold = wow
on Sunday I walked around Milano with Dino and Ivan and we arrived in a villa that we (actually, Dino) recognized as being the location of the movie Io sono l'amore (by Luca Guadagnino).
I didn't like the movie at all, I'd say it was even trash, but the setting is doubtless fascinating.
The picture above is old, but it was the nicest one I had of my friend Rob.
He moved to a new flat near Porta Romana and he invited us for dinner (a great dinner).
The only weird thing was... his flatmate. He entered home at 11 and at 11.30 - it was friday night - he asked us to keep quiet - we were only chatting - because he wanted to go sleeping. The thing is that he does the same during the week, but at 10.30.
Betti, Nicco, Marchino and Lavinia, at RadioBocconi, Milano
I've been invited with Betti to talk about vegetarianism and veganism at Welcome to the fellas, on RadioBocconi. At first I was kind of worried and awkward, but this "first" lasted only two minutes and I had a lot of fun!
Ali, Ceci, Irene, Franci, Silvia and me, at PanePasta, Milano
Six girls, all together, in a small room. Progesterone at maximum levels.
Really, it was so weird being in so many girls in the same room. I live with three other girls, but we barely meet and the probability that we have dinner all together is very low. Yesterday, it happened: the four of us plus Franci (ex-flatmate, now working in Milano) and Silvia (Irene's friend).
Andrea, Giacomo, Nike, Dino, Ceci, Ali at PanePasta, Milano
How to perfectly exploit these last days of summer without necessarily go out every night?
Just chilling out on the pavement in front of your own place. We brought out three stools and a bottle of (spoiled) red wine, called our neighbours and spent some nice open-air time without too much effort.
On sunday evening, Dino and I decided to a surprise visit to our friend Betti and Stella (there we obviously found a superb basmati rice cooked by Betti, who is an amazing cook). After a while, the doorbell rang: a surprise visit by two other friends, Federico and Paolo.
Betti wanted to study, but she clearly didn't. Federico told us that once he tried to register his own voice reading a book he had to study and listen to it while sleeping, but with scarse results.
we spent the first part of our evening...
...at Cascina Cuccagna, one among the historical farms owned by Milano municipality.
Cascina Cuccagna has been recently renovated thanks to private citizens donations.
Marchino is definitely back and we won't let him leave anymore.
He's living alone and we're going to make his house our own house - I can already imagine rainy nights spent chit chatting and playing table games (or else).
Please note his glasses, obviously coming from Shanghai: they are made of wood and incredibly light.
Long coffee (actually iced tea) break with my little blondie Elisabetta.
She really needed a help for a video she has to shoot for a (sort of) job application, I did not come up with any noteworthy idea, but I really hope she will last out.
She has been my flatmate in India and we loved each other, but we live in the same city and we never manage to meet. Shame on us!
here is...
...where Chinese people take their wedding pictures in Milano.
Don't know how I met these incredibly cute girls from South Korea out of Zog, I suppose we have some common friends.
I liked them so much and I think they liked me too, so we set a regular meeting every tuesday at Zog. See you next week!
pay as you want experiment at Jap One...
...ended yesterday, three days in advance, because of very low profits.
In terms of numbers it has been a success and my friend Arianna collected many surveys for her thesis.
Above is a picture of our last lunch there, with Verdiana, Roberta and Angelo filling in the final questionnaire.
I hate meeting people that want to talk, at all costs. It was late monday evening, I was doing my business on the train from Brescia to Milano and he started asking me what I was doing, how and why. The thing is that he only waited for me to ask "and you?". I hate when people talk to you only waiting for their turn. When I asked him "and you?" I actually wanted to asked "and you, where are you going? (he told he had to go to the airport)", but I couldn't complete my sentence because he started "Yeah, I'm going to Norway because I have a girlfriend there, she lives in... she studies... I come from... I live in... I live with... I study...". He ended up telling me "Hey, your face is already familiar to me, it's like I already know you, I told you so many things!" - that I did not want to know.
Davide plays the drums with the Mojomatics, he lives in Venice, but often comes to Milano because of my friend Arianna. Actually, they dated for a good while, before I discovered she was going out with somebody. Please, keep me updated because I'm always the last one hearing of any gossip.
Lavinia is an incredibly young songwriter coming from Udine and here you can listen to her first album, Magadasca by Lavinia!.
arianna is writing a thesis about
the pay what you want pricing system.
A Japanese restaurant in piazza XXIV Maggio (Jap One) agreed to collaborate with her for two weeks from monday to friday and she told me that many people are going there for lunch. It is an unlimited buffet lunch and by now the average price paid has been 6.20€.
