When someone asks me what i miss most from Italy, I always reply: apart my dear people, 1)my car; 2) the real italian pizza; 3) the football (or soccer, like they call it here) matches .
For as concerns the car, i have no other choice than waiting for driving it again when i come back! I couldn’t come to Australia with it like i did during the Erasmus in Spain!
For the pizza, here in Sydney there’s a little Italian quarter. It isn’t very close to where i live (actually every place in Sydney is far from where i live!), but anyway when i really want something similar to a real pizza, i go there and i find a passable pizza! I’d have never thought i could miss my Egyptian pizzaiolo near house in Rome!
For the soccer, well, it isn’t the most popular sport in Australia. Here the most loved sports are : 1)rugby; 2) australian football (something very similar to rugby); 3) cricket (one of the most boring sport i’ve ever seen! Just think that a match usually lasts 7/8 hours!!!).
Anyway they told me here the soccer has become more popular after the last World Cup, so every now and then you see people playing it and even some matches on TV. In fact i.e. they broadcasted the most important matches of the Champions League and I could even see the final Manchester-Chelsea. The big problem in that case is the difference of time zone: to watch a soccer match live from Europe means to wake up at 4.30 in the morning! You can understand it’s quite uncomfortable!
So my lack of soccer pushed me to go to the stadium to watch a real soccer match the last Thursday. It was a friendly match, Australia vs Ghana. I was quite surprised for the audience, almost 30000 people is a considerable number for a friendly match. Let me to say the Australians have still to learn how to see a soccer match!! They get to the stadium even many minutes later after the match has started and some people seem more interested in chatting and eating snacks than in seeing what happens in the field! Actually the match wasn’t so spectacular and it will not remain in the history of football!! 1-0 for Australia, if you care...
And no doubt, it wasn’t the same thing than when in Spain i could enjoy a match in the Santiago Bernabeu!!
For as concerns the car, i have no other choice than waiting for driving it again when i come back! I couldn’t come to Australia with it like i did during the Erasmus in Spain!
For the pizza, here in Sydney there’s a little Italian quarter. It isn’t very close to where i live (actually every place in Sydney is far from where i live!), but anyway when i really want something similar to a real pizza, i go there and i find a passable pizza! I’d have never thought i could miss my Egyptian pizzaiolo near house in Rome!
For the soccer, well, it isn’t the most popular sport in Australia. Here the most loved sports are : 1)rugby; 2) australian football (something very similar to rugby); 3) cricket (one of the most boring sport i’ve ever seen! Just think that a match usually lasts 7/8 hours!!!).
Anyway they told me here the soccer has become more popular after the last World Cup, so every now and then you see people playing it and even some matches on TV. In fact i.e. they broadcasted the most important matches of the Champions League and I could even see the final Manchester-Chelsea. The big problem in that case is the difference of time zone: to watch a soccer match live from Europe means to wake up at 4.30 in the morning! You can understand it’s quite uncomfortable!
So my lack of soccer pushed me to go to the stadium to watch a real soccer match the last Thursday. It was a friendly match, Australia vs Ghana. I was quite surprised for the audience, almost 30000 people is a considerable number for a friendly match. Let me to say the Australians have still to learn how to see a soccer match!! They get to the stadium even many minutes later after the match has started and some people seem more interested in chatting and eating snacks than in seeing what happens in the field! Actually the match wasn’t so spectacular and it will not remain in the history of football!! 1-0 for Australia, if you care...
And no doubt, it wasn’t the same thing than when in Spain i could enjoy a match in the Santiago Bernabeu!!
2 commenti:
Hi Sergio!!!
Allora a quando il tuo ritorno nel Bel Paese a cui di bello purtroppo non resta nulla fuorchè i monumenti?
Sei certo di voler davvero tornare in questo paese il cui "Presidente" fa davvero skifo alla metà della popolazione e che minaccia con l'esercito chi gli si oppone?
Oddio mi sn messa a fare polemike politike anke nei commenti :-P
Cmq sul serio quando torni a Roma?
Fatti sentire...
Sei tra i link del mio blogghetto: laureataprecaria.wordpress.com
A presto
Simona
Ciao Sergio, scusa per il mio modo di scrivere criptato ma chiedermi di non farlo sarebbe come chiedermi di non essere me stessa :-P
Purtroppo ho sempre scritto così anche nel vekkio blog (ma mi sa ke tu nn lo conoscevi!)...
Quando tornerai a Roma ti farò un sunto veloce di come sia cambiata la mia vita e forse se ti andrà potrai interpretare le mie parole...
La vita è davvero strana c'è chi pagherebbe per andar via da qsto paese ma che al momento non può e chi invece è fuori e vuole tornare...
Ti aspettiamo in Italia allora...
Un bacio
Simona
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