Letter to a friend

Via Napoli, 60

81034 Mondragone

11th December, 2013

Dear Margaret,

last Monday we went in Caserta to see a concert about "The Beatles", this concert was

organised by our magnificent English teacher La Torre. It was a school trip so we went by bus, we were five classes and we had a lot of fun. By the way the best part was the concert. There were a lot of people inside the theatre and all of them were waiting to see the show. It started with a background voice and images on the screen. This background voice told us a little bit of "The Beatles" story before the show started. Suddenly all the lights turned off and the actors started to sing the most famous Beatles' song. It was amazing and interesting at the same time. The show lasted two hours. After it we returned home by bus, we were really excited for that show and for the actors.

What about you? Did you go somewhere interesting last week?

Let me know.

Kisses,

Antonio

Banksy the street artist

Banksy is an anonymous English writer. All we know about him is that he was born in Bristol and he started to write when he was 14 years old. He's considered the most famous "street writer" in the world. His career started in small crew called DryBreadZ with two of his artist friends in the 80's. Many years later he organised the first convention of graffiti writers in Bristol, he really had a lot of success, after that year he became one of the most known writers in Europe. Even after 39 years he's still doing his wonderful, full of significance drawings. Banksy also sells his works to the Hollywood stars, such as Brad Pitt, for a really high price. His most famous work is "Consumism Water Lily Pond" which represents Monet's masterpiece with a shopping trolley and a traffic cone into it.

                        Here is the original one.           Here is the "consumism" one.

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

The Remembrance Day, also known as "Poppy day", is the day that commemorates the ending of the First World War by the signing of the Armistice Treaty in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918. This day is observed in all the Commonwealth countries since 1919. The main countries are: Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Ukrain, France and Luxemburg. However this commemorative day is celebrated in many different ways in the non-european countries of the Commonwealth, for example in Italy this commemoration is on 4th November and people remember all the dead, not only the soldiers died in this war. The symbol of it is the red poppy.

• Name:  Remembrance day
• Type: International
• Significance: Commemorates war dead
• Date: 11th November
• Frequency: Annual

Hallowe'en

Origins of:

Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en is an original Celtic festivity, celebrated on October the 31st mostly in America, Ireland and in other countries of the world. For the Celts, Halloween was the day before the end of the Summer and of the year. For them it was a very magical day because the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead was very thin, so thin that the spirits could cross it to terrify the people. In order to keep the bad spirits away, each family had to burn a piece of the sacred wood from the Bonfire, put it into a carved pumpkin and leave it into the fireplace. On the contrary, to attract the good spirits they had to prepare their favourite dishes and place them outside the front door.

This festivity is now very popular in America and in Ireland because during the 19th century the Irish families starved to death for the winter that killed all the harvest, and so 700.000 people immigrated to America and transferred this tradition to american people.

Origins of my name

Origins of my name:

Antonio

Antonio is a name that comes from Etruscan population, it is a noble name. The name Antonio literally means: the one who fights, who faces. St Antonio is celebrated on January the 17th, it is very popular in the Italian traditions, but it is celebrated on June 13th. This saint actually was from Egypt, infact, he lived 106 years which 80 of them he spent in the Egyptian desert. He's considerated the protector of animals, he is also invoked for the health of the body.

• Name-day:  Fighter, one who fights
• Meaning: January 17th - June 13th
• Origins: Etruscan
• Corresponding sign: Scorpion
• Lucky number: 6
• Color: Red
• Stone: Ruby
• Metal: Iron

The person that I want to be

My favourite idol is:

Edward Micheal Grylls

(Bear Grylls)

Edward Micheal Grylls also known as Bear Grylls is a British writer, television presenter, adventurer and survivor. He is best known for his television series: "Man vs Wild". He had a normal childhood because his parents had a job in the parliament, so the family was very wealthy. After leaving school at 16 he joined the Territorial Army and served for three years. After his military career he started to be an adventurer. In 2009, Grylls was the youngest-ever Chief Scout at age of 35. He was also the youngest person to climb the Mount Everest, but unfortunately a young adventurer broke his record at age of 19. During last year he suffered a free-fall parachuting accident from the highest mountain in Zambia, causing him to fall on his parachute pack on his back, which crushed three vertebrae, fortunately that fall couldn't kill him. Now he's famous all around the world for his beautiful journeys and his magnificent adventures in the most beautiful forests of the world.