Silvia+Benetollo

Hi everybody! My name is Silvia and I live in a little town between Padua and Venice with my family and my lovely cat. I’m attending the last year of “Language, Literatures and Modern Culture”. I hope that next year I will finish my studies, and as reward for completing my degree I would like to take a trekking-tour in Iceland. Visiting that incredible landscape has always been my dream since I was a child, and I really hope to realize it in August 2008, when I will be about to celebrate my thirtieth birthday! Yes it’s so.. I started my studies a little bit late, and since I’m working I’m not going too fast... As you have maybe already understood I like trekking whenever I can: I go often on the Dolomites, a fantastic group of mountains which lies not too far from here, where I have spent a lot of great days in a wild environment! There are really secret places where it is possible to experience a particular atmosphere. Of course I am interested in foreign cultures and languages, and last year I spent 6 month in Austria, in order to improve my German, and where I met a girl who came from Tasmania! I am also interested in linguistic minorities, and I am going to write my thesis on the German minorities in the Alps. I hope this will give me the opportunity to work for the International Committee for protection of Alps, which is in the Princedom of Liechtenstein. Mountains have given me, and continue to give me so much enjoyment, that I think it’s time for me to give them something back. When I have time I like reading, listening to music and singing (but only when nobody can hear me..!)