Elisa+Marenzi

Hello!! My name's Elisa Laura, I was born in April, 18 and I live in Padua with my family (mum, dad, and my sister, Serena, who's 13). Since I was little, I wanted to speak lots of foreign languages, so I've been studying English and French since I was 11; in high school I've also studied Spanish and I took an extra course of Arabic (great fun!). Last year I studied at the University of Essex (England) as an exchange student; I joined a few students' societies and clubs, among which the Japanese society - they offered members the possibility to learn the basics of Japanese...and I've got to say that it was an amazing experience. I'm always very interested in learning new languages; my friend Tatjana, who is Croatian, knows how eager I am when I've got the chance to learn a new language from my friends - yes, I'm trying to learn Croatian, too... English, however, is my favourite language, and I practice it daily with some of my classmates and with my boyfriend, who's English. Apart from studying English and French (which include language and literature courses), I've been studying History of Art, Sociology, and History and Criticism of Cinema. This year I'm going to graduate, then I'm going to do a taught Masters in Sociolinguistics in England; I'm not interested in continuing my studies in Italy because I'd like to live and work abroad. Leaving my academic life, which is very active, I'll tell you something about my favourite leisure-time activities. I like listening to R&B, Dance, House, Jazz and Lounge music, and I actually spend some of my free time trying to find new songs of the genres I like; I like to go clubbing with friends, or simply to chill in a bar and chat for hours with them (possibly in front of a cup of coffee or a spritz). I'm always up for casual shopping and for long walks; when I'm at home, I like to read, draw and paint landscapes with ink and watercolours; decorate sheets of paper or objects with decoupage,and decorate wreaths and small boxes with biedermeier. Quilting is the hobby I like the most; the last thing I made was a huge quilt I gave to my boyfriend for Christmas. Since I don't like hand sewing too much, I was given a sewing machine for my 18th birthday; the cool thing is that it's not an ordinary machine as it can do embroidery, too, and my friends keep asking me to embroider something for them. Basically, it's like a printer, since I can create embroidery from any image file on my computer and then transfer it to the machine; the only thing I have to do is to change threads when the image is polychromatic. I like to play sports, too; I've been playing volleyball for 15 years, and I like to play badminton and basketball. If you're curious and want to know more about me, feel free to drop me a line, so that I could add other details about me. Let's keep in touch :-)
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