Nicola+Busetto

Hello everyone! My name is Nicola Busetto, I am 21 years-old boy (on the 25th of June 22), from Padua in the northeastern corner of Italy, near Venice. I am attending the university here in Padua where I am studying foreign languages, namely English and German. I have loved the English language since I was 15 or 16 while attending the liceo scientifico, when I, very much of a sudden, became aware that I had not made so good a choice at the end of the secondary school. Besides at the liceo scientifico I could never do well in scientific subjects, and Math above all. Maybe I could have studied more and got higher grades but I could not see the point in studying so "cold" a subject. So I began relishing reading English authors rather than Italian ones, since I found out that English poets like Wordsworth or Byron for example had written much that appealed to my feelings, I could find myself in there. Now I am attending the third year of university and very happy about the choice I made. True that every year was harder than the former and sometimes this year I was scared back by all that I've got to do; nevertheless I am well contented.

My chief interests (beside English culture) are sports and music. I practiced soccer for some years in a local football team, and even if I agonistically gave it up there's nothing I like so much as playing it, no matter what circular object is taken for a ball. I also watch it on television, when matches are broadcast. The team I support is Inter, and I am a little proud to say that they are now on top of the league, in spite of many years of shameful delusions and tease. I also like many other sports like rugby, tennis, basketball, volleyball...In addition, every summer I pour my energies into hiking, since nearby we've got beautiful mountains: the Dolomites. The amazing vistas these mountains offer are worth such a long travel as the one from Australia and to me there is nothing so fulfilling as the sensation of attaining a far-looking mountain summit, after hours of labour.

As regards music, my favourite singers are Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan. I find their music really inspiring, not only for the staggering melodies but also for the messages these songs convey. They composed wonderful songs like Scarborough Fair and The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) or A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall and Desolation Row (Bob Dylan), to list just a few. I listen to many other famous folksingers like Joan Baez, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, Leonard Cohen...and to the Italian Fabrizio De Andrè, so if you are willing to improve your Italian I recommend you to listen to his breath-taking committed songs. What is more, I taught myself to play my favourite songs on the guitar and this I consider my greatest personal achievement up to now, since it is a great means to calm you down when you are feeling blue or even just tense.

In my family we are five: my parents, a little brother (12) and a twin brother who is also attending university but in another faculty. That's all for now, bye!