erica+cecchinato

I am Erica and I am 22. I am from Padua and I live with my family: my mother, my father and my little brother. I like staying with them sometimes, sharing opinions with my parents or playing with my brother, but I have to say I do not spend much time at home. In effect I am quite busy, especially in this period. My principal interest, the activity to which I dedicate many hours a week, is theatre. I have rehearsals twice a week, and when we are putting on a show we work even during the week ends. Sometimes it is tiring, but I like seeing how a work develops, how a text can be changed depending on the way a person decides to tell it and how my own opinions about a text change while I am working on it. I have been playing with the same people for several years, we know each other very well, so working is easier and often pleasant. I like also the kind of work we do: it can be called "experimental theatre", I guess, and essentially it means that there is a strong and long research before going on stage. This approach helps us in presenting the topic in an unusual way, and I think it is a good way to make the public think. Maybe theatre will not change the world, but surely it can improve our minds. Another activity I practice, quite obviously, is studying. I chose to study English and Spanish, for the reason that I wanted to read García Márquez's or Hemingway's books in their original form and translate them by myself. Aside from this, I like studying also other subjects that are not directly related to modern literatures, such as linguistic, romance philology or history of cinema. I would like to have time enough to go deep into each of these subjects, but often I have to narrow my ambitions and I have to be content with the notions I learn for the exams. I also try to spend as much time as I can with my friends. During this years at university I met wonderful people, and staying with them is really a pleasure. The unique problem I have with them is that they are all hackers and scientists and I do not know anything about these things. For this reason sometimes I am not able to follow their conversations, but they are kind enough to explain me the topic or to start talking about something else - especially when I raise my hand while they are talking and I say: "It's boring". I have also friends that were my classmate at high school. I do not see them as often as I want, but I know that if I need to talk to someone, or I want a moment of peace, I can call them. I think this is enough about me. I do other things, as cooking, reading, listening to the music, but I have been writing them in my presentation since I was a child, so I will not consider them here. I like travelling, too, but now I have not time to go away, so I at the moment I am just dreaming some places for my Easter holidays.