Hi Geo,
Exact, Apulia (in Italy Puglia is said, that has form of heel of boot). I am a Southerner (but really I am of Rome, my city of which I're were born). My city I don't like Lecce!! Is a zone distant of the unity Italy.
From two weeks to Lecce it rains and ago very cold. But it is always a zone of sirocco (or hot). Is as a city always in spring.
I have to do at night the job (now are Italian times 18,50). And as always I have to bear the bad colleagues.
I always have my fixed thought to go one day to America's.

Good afternoon, Ugo! Its about 9:10 AM here in Nevada. It snowed here last night, just a light dusting down here in the South Truckee Meadows, but a lot more up in the Sierra Nevada themselves. I love the mountains, and I love the snow, but at the same time I miss the more temperate Mediterranean-like climate of Northern California where I lived most of my life (where Geezer lives, actually). I used to live in Sonoma County, California which I understood was quite like Tuscany (you live further south and on the opposite side of Italy, don't you, somewhere between Apulia & Calabria, no?). Anyway, I hope you have a calmer, happier day, Ugo. Cheers!

Hey there, Ugo, you have nothing to apologize for. Its all good, my friend, honestly. I have enjoyed our conversations very much.

My apologies also to You, Geo. I hope to be the best to become American and one day to come from you friends. As also for Danielle and Lia. And my dream for Alison.

No, not an intruder, Ugo, not at all--I was trying to say how impressed I am with how you have taken on such a task as learning English and using these bulletin boards as your classroom. My sincerest apologies for not being clear. The same goes for the way you work at creating those beautiful images of our dear hostess as well as Lia. You are to be commended & congratulated, Ugo

Hi Geo. I don't know what to answer. I am sorry if I seem an "intruder".

Hi there, Ugo

For practicing English for just a year and a half you're not bad at it at all. Like I said (I think) before, its not an easy language, even for some for whom its their primary language (JK--well, maybe there's some truth there, LOL). I am always happy to see someone jumping right in to learn something, and especially pleased with someone who does it all her- or himself. I took Spanish in high school, but that's nothing compared to the way you're learning English, my friend. I am really very humbled by your dedication to the subject.

Having been ascertaining the English for 1 year and a half (when I started to the member's Chat of Alison's), I have had notable experience of big long in comparison to my difficult psychological conditions. I have a good brain, but surely inferior to your great emotional and meaningful experience of your good more efficient life of mine.
Not could tell so many things of my personal complications (and to the "transversal presence" of my family), I have limited of what I could try to make to understand and to have a good time to you friends members and Alison, Danielle and Rob, of my term style English "complicated." But as I said, the English is easy indeed. And what I would like to be is to become indeed English. If then my brain is able to complete those 4 or 5 things of my life. I could become perfect. And dreaming a beautiful adventure in America, and could hope to meet the beautiful girls as Alison and Danielle.
Geo, for what I have said in Italian and helping me with my effect English, I continue to learn the English without too complications of as instead of should learn well from a true school.

Having a good time conversing with You, and noticing my pleasure to have with a friend as You.
I remember my dear friend WhyYou, I was having that same effects of dialogues with Him, as with You.

Me study still. My life doesn't die. But I am always still a rider in battle. And those victories will serve me to enter the English "American."
Perhaps I am heavy. But happy.

I do something similar, Ugo. I usually, when I post to you in Italian, use the translated version (from an online translator). Usually I'm pretty far off, but I file my mistakes away and try to do better next time. English is a difficult language to learn--its a little Germanic, a little Romance and I understand there is even a little Celtic in there. Actually, when I was in grade & high school I took German and Spanish for a short time, and found Spanish a lot easier to learn than German. More words in English were similar to Romance words, but the way the sentences are structured was a little closer to German I think. For me, now, its a puzzle, and I am always looking for something that will engage my brain and make it stronger (it used to be stronger a few years ago, but is more cluttered and less organized and less efficient now). One thing is trying to read foreign languages (I use Wikipedia, but not just the English one--I also check the French, Swedish and other versions, too, and compare what is written there with what is written in English), use that online translator to take a sentence or paragraph I wrote and see how it translates into Italian, German, French, and so on. I also do some genealogy which I look at as a large jigsaw puzzle, and it helps me research (especially with Google books). And after about a year taking a break from photography I picked my camera up again a few weeks ago. I rarely take photos of people, but I love taking photos of sunrises and sunset (oh, that's right, you saw some a few weeks ago--I almost forgot). And I'm always watching the news (mostly CNN, but also MSNBC, CNBC and BBC, not all of which are available in Europe). I used to play chess and Stratego, but haven;t had anyone to play with for a long time, but now one of my nieces is interested so I might have a new way to exercise my brain (Joy!). Anyway, your English isn't bad at all (its better than some native speakers I can think of!), so keep up the good work, Ugo, not only with learning English but also with your art! Cheers!

I write in English. Then I see a dictionary help (or translator). Then I understand of what I comment (it is all right, or it goes badly). I still have confusion. Guilt of my problems.
A pastime to be with you and with Danielle. And as had been beautiful from Alison. Still today I suffer without Alison. But I am not worth. Because I will never learn to memory the true language English. And of what I can make ugly figures to Alison and Danielle.
Correct to say of what I think and I live. You give me for you moral, strength, assistance. In my life it is always war (family and job).