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14th June 2005
Parma

Dear Kathleen,
Hello! How are you? ( or I’m fine, and you?I hope that you fell like me) My first name is Laura and my surname is Schiavo. I’m thirteen years old and I’m a student. I live in a beautiful large house with my parents on the outskirts of Parma, a pretty Italian city in Emilia-Romagna between Piacenza e Reggio-Emilia.
I’m an only child. . Dad is called Angelo and he’s forty-four years old. He’s the director of a pharmacological firm in Firenze and that’s why he’s never at home: his work ties him down every day.
Mum’s name is Luana and she’s…oh, I can’t say her age because she could kill me….never say the age of a woman…that is what is being said! A few years ago, she worked at the Power of attorney; then she has stopped to work on medicals grounds and now she’s an housewife. I’m quite a bit plump.. or at least I’m like this in my opinion ,but my friends say that I’m really thin (Where I don’t know)!
I’m dark-haired, fair-skinner and I’ve got brown eyes as Whitesnow. I’m very ambitious, jealous, lovely, sweet, kind, daydremer, nice and… a big, big, big swot!

My house has four floors, including the basement recreation room and the garage- cellar. Outside ,there’s a green garden covered by hedges and flowers ( naturally in the spring!).
On the first floor of the house, there are a kitchen ( furnished with blue furniture: my parents have a really strange taste!), a bathroom and a dining-room; then, upstairs they follow my room, that of Mum and Dad and another loo. At the end, there’s a big attic with the guest room. When I’m growing I’m going to move there and I’m going to prepare a little loft for me. How I’m dreaming that moment!

I go to “Don Cavalli Junior High School” in the centre of Parma. It’s not too far from my home, but every morning I must put up with a trip which always goes on twenty or twenty-five minutes and it fells to be everlasting! Apart from that, I’m lucky because I can sleep again a little more!
In Italy, we start Junior school when we’re 11 or 12 years old. We could leave the school on sixteen years old until last year but now, with the new Moratti’s reform, the Minister of Education, we must remain on the desks beyond eighteen years old.
We go to school from Monday to Saturday. In our Institute lessons starts at eight o’clock and finishes at half past one. During the morning we normally have a break at five to eleven and we return again to study ten minutes later. We have a lot of subjects in a week: Italian, Maths, English, French, Art, Music, Religion, Technique, Science, Gym… the subjects which I prefer are Italian and Art of course: Oh, I love painting and drawing and I like very much reading and writing in the same mode ( or alike ) but I think it’s right to privilege this last passion. I’m going to secondary school with an emphasis on humanities. The most prestigious in Parma is Romagnosi School. I have already enrolled myself. Then I’m not sure about what I’ll maybe do. Perhaps I’ll enter at the University where I’ll attend the journalist’s course or I’ll study medicine… Who knows?
Unlike I hate Gym because , for me, it’s too tiring. And you, what is your favourite subject???
The school year has three terms. The autumn term begins in September, followed by the winter. There are two week’s holiday in December for Christmas. The spring term usually starts at the end of February… but this winter fells to be longer then the others: it’s still much cold!
There’s a week’s rest in March for Easter. The summer starts at the end of May and usually the school closes in the first week of June but this year I’ll probably finish to study so hard by the beginning of July because I’m having my finally exam. Tomorrow I’m doing my Italian text. I hope I will pass: I’m very nervous. The day after tomorrow I’m doing (having) also the English one. Ah, ah! I’m not worried by it…I and my deskmate are the best in the class in English.

In the afternoon when I return from school, I have lunch very fast and then I begin to do my homework at once. I have got a shower of homework and a lot of times I must also continue on the night or until the late evening: unfortunately It’s a sacrifice that I must take to have the best marks among my classmates. On Monday afternoon I don’t have lunch at home, but I eat a quick bite in the bar in front of the school because at three o’clock I follow a course to take the temporary driving licence. On Thursday I have an English with some of my friends to practise for speaking. Therefore I have little time to devote to my hobbies. But when I have also only a free hour, I try use it to improve my interests, not “educational”.
I like riding horses, skating on ice, listening to music. My favourite group is The Coors but my favourite singer is Anastacia. I have been collecting each CDs that she has been making! I like doing shopping too and so on Saturdays, after the school, I often go to the centre of my city. Mine It’s a fantastic town! It’s a very old and big city and it was founded by the Romans thousands years ago. In fact, Parma means shield in Latin. Now It’s famous for its food production, above all for cheese ham and pasta. Last year it was given the food authority. It’s becoming a really international city! There are more than two millions people here. A lot of them have from the south of Italy because there are more employments.
There are lots of shopping streets and roads. From the main square, that is called Garibaldi, branch off some streets: the most important are Cavour suburb and Mazzini street, which continues in Repubblica road. Garibaldi square is the meeting place where all the teenagers who live here arrange to meet themselves, under the famous statue of the historic personage who has been giving the name at (or to) the square. It’s easy to meet new people: everybody is there.
I usually call one of my best friends and together we walk along Cavour street, having the so-called “ lengths”. Then we always go to Pace’s square while we eat an ice cream, the pretty little parkland, behind the Pilotta, building fortified of the Romanesque period.
We hardly never go to church square where there are a wonderful Cathedral and a pink marble Baptistery ,belonging to the same age of the Pilotta. They are an attraction for hundreds of tourists from all the world but I have been seeing them every day and now I have got tired by them.

Sometimes I (also) go out on Sunday with my parents too.
It’s an exploits going out with them! Mum loves doing shopping and she would like to buy each (every) things, but Dad would like always to save money and moreover he hates going wildly round shops. They always finish to squabble and to both return et home very angry. What a mad married couple! Ah, ah!
And what are your hobbies? Do you practise any sports? What do you do in your free time?

I’ve just had some cheerful news about this summer: Mum and Dad have been planning to visit England for a long time and now they have decided to get a small flat in London in August. It’ll be great and I’m so excited about seeing you for the first time.

My parents have promised to take me to Rock Circus and Planetarium. We’re going to visit the Tower and Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, Mum will compel us to follow her when she’s going in Madame Tussaud’s: last time that I has been ( was) here I liked only Brad Pitt’s wax!
Anyway, that’ll be fantastic, I really like doing things like that!

But before coming to London, I would go where I spent
most of my holydays last year, at my best foreign friend’s house. Her full name is Sarajane Abergavenny Kendrew. Her family call her Sara, for short, but her nickname, for her friend and at school, is “Sak”! She was born in Glasgow, in Scotland, but now she lives outside Cheltenham, in the south of England. Her parents are the owners of a big estate in the country near the town. It’s a wonderful farm with a lot of animals. Last August I and Sara wake up every morning at six o’ clock and we took two of her horses to ride sidesaddle among corn and ploughed field!
Then we milked the cow in the cattleshed and we feed the hens and the chicken in the barnyard. In the afternoon we played with watchdog and then we watching the sunset lied on the haystacks!!! Oh, what a smashing summer! Sometimes we also went to the city. I’t’s an old town, founded in the fifteenth century. In the main square there’s a beautiful church of that period, called Saint Andrew’s, and a majestic fountain. Along the roads, there are a lot of bus stops and shops. The centre is covered of public building among those, the Famous Cheltenham Ladies College, the most prestigious school in England. The big Victorian theatre is also very important like the railway station and the “Kurky Cinema”.
I like the place where Sak lives because it’s a “vibrant” and andvanced city. It’s very exciting for me. Oh, how I would rather live here, where there are more discos, cinemas and teenagers! My town is very modern and interesting too, but not like that of Sak. But she isn’t get on (along) with me. She likes living quietly: that’s why Sak and her family haven’t moved to Cheltenham and they have preferred to remained in the farm.

Sak is fourteen years old. She is 1,65 cm tall and she weighs 50 kilos. She’s got long black hair and light green eyes.
She’s interested in ice-skating, dance, art and music. Her favourite group is Green Day, but the singer who she prefers is Britney Spears. She think that she’s a really pop’s heroine! “A fair angel”!

Her favourites programmes are “MTV” and “Grandi Domani” that she see with the satellite parable. She’s studying Italian and so, watching tv, she can practise for speaking.
She loves eating pizza and sweets and…each food because she’s a hearty eater.
He hates those who smoke and show off all the time.
Oh, I like Sak because - for me – she’s “perfect” in each aspects! She’s nice, polite, understanding, funnier, very clever, breezy and the most beautiful and lovely girl that I have ever seen. She’s also a fantastic dancer.

Anyway, shall we arrange to meet when I come over?
Maybe we could have a few days together. Please write and tell me what you think.
Love and kisses,
Laura
PS: Your last letter to me was on May 10th . I haven’t heard from you for a month!