LVE.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Steve Jobs -

new semester here we go!

..and yes i'm back to school!!! last Friday I officially started my second semester at AAU and I'm really happy and satisfied. I had 2 classes the first day: Visualization and Composition for the artist. Visualization is pretty amazing, I'm gonna study what is behind a photo, the concept behind, the idea a photographer wants to show people with his picture and I'm gonna do every week a different project with a different theme, first assignment is about FEAR! pretty awesome, and today i'm going to shoot something around, i already have some ideas.
Composition for the artist is a little pain in the ass. Basically is english. How to be a good writer. Nothing related to photography but i have to take that class for my bachelor..
Other classes I'm going to take are Color Photography and Photoshop and I'm very happy about my schedule this semester they all look interesting and I'm so excited!!!

This week was super extremely busy, but i like a busy life better than stay home and doing nothing. My two jobs are ok, and i hope i can handle them both otherwise I have to choose.. but now I'm doing fine, i still really dislike my girly dressing for Perbacco but I have to live with them.

Last week and was pretty amazing! Adriano, a friend of mine from high school, came here in SF!!! you don't even know how happy i was... it was like going back in time, i met him when i was 14, we grew up together basically, he is one of my closest friend and now he lives in UK so it's not easy to see each other. Being here together was awesome! I'm just sad i have to wait at least 1 year to see him again :( damn distance! I miss my friends sometimes, I'm a selective person, I don't have tons of friends, but few really good ones and yes i do miss 'em a lot, we are all over the world and Skype is the only way to see each other and talk.. not enough though..

By the way, I'm off today, no work! just relaxing and taking pics, and tomorrow the same :)
thank god i need some rest :)

peace.

weird thoughts

I was thinking... why in SF most of the guys are crazy for mustache??? actually I like'em too.. but here there is an obsession with mustache.. I saw mustache on guys, glasses, cups, t-shirt, patches, tattoos, girls with fake mustaches.. well.. who knows.. this is only one of my weird thoughts...

Finally I'm on spring break!!!
Actually it's not the best spring break ever, because of this shitty weather first of all and also because I'm still working... so it's not a real vacation :( but whatever... I can sleep a little bit and it means a lot now...
I decided to buy something special to me!!!!! A new pair of inline skates yay!!!! after loooong time I'll start skating again, I'm so happy about that, it was a big passion for me, and now it's time to do something special and think only about me again. I cant wait to run as a crazy with my new skates with Nicole... the ocean, the wind, the sun... so Californian!!!!!
I have to buy also a lighting set for a new assignment for school... Im gonna build a studio in my bedroom hahah.. but I'm still looking for something cheap, and as you know anything about photography is cheap (goddamnit!!)
I have few days to work on 2 different projects and I have no ideas at all!!! OMG it's frustrating.. sometimes i'd like to do only what I like.. but now photography is not just a passion, it's also my job and what I'm studying and somethimes it's not that fun...

I need to say GRAZIE to my mom for the beautiful photo she sent me, a photo with my family and my grandma...
Nonna mi manchi tanto, spero tu mi stia sempre accanto... ovunque tu sia... sei sempre nel mio cuore...

...and now I have to think about photos... about me... and that's it.
no more time for kids..

E.

San Francisco i'm coming!!!!!!!

check-in on line: done.
luggage: done.
I'm ready to leave, again.

Tomorrow morning @ 7.50 i have my flight for London, one hour in Heathrow and than straight to San Francisco, I'll be there @ 1.30 pm pacific time, 10.30 pm italian time.. Just 13 days in my hometown with my family, not easy days at all, I mean I was really happy to see my family, my bro, my friends, but I found my grandma really sick, seeing her in that way made me feel too bad... i don't know what i have to hope for her... hope she's gonna stop suffering soon...
btw i'm happy to go back home, i'm happy to start studing again, January 17th is close and i have the TOEFL and i'm super ready, also i miss my "family" over there, all my friends, i really miss my own life that is not here anymore. My only desire is seeing my brother soon, i'm gonna miss him too much...
As always i'm super scared of the flight so cuddles are appreciated :)
See you soon from San Fran...

E.

High hopes

... now i know why i cant fall in love for anybody...
cause im already in love with you...

I dont know if you can figure out what i feel...
have you ever found a place where you can be who you really are? a place where you can be complete just because you are free to do everything makes you feel better?
That's why i love this city! That's why i dont think im gonna go back to my country even if i love my hometown, because here i found myself and i spent 27 years of my life looking for the real Eleonora and now i dont wanna lose my freedom again...
i dont know if im 100% happy, but im conscious of me and that's the important now...
maybe it sounds selfish, but for the first time in my life im thinking only about me... and its fantastic!!!!

E.

P.s. Now i can be your friend... and im proud to do it :)