Chiara+Zanato

Hi! My name is Chiara Zanato. I was born on the 23 of February 1985, so now I am 22 years old, but everybody thinks I am 16 or 18. Two years ago, when I was 20, a friend of my grandmother thought I was 14 and I really didn't know if it had been better to laugh or to cry, but I know that in some years it only will make me happy to be considered younger! Anyway, in spite of my apparent age, I am quite tall and I have always been one of the tallest girl at school; then I am thin, and I have long brown hair and light complexion. I'm from Rovigo, a small city not far from Padua and Venice. I live here with my parents and my eldest brother Luca that is 26 years old, but I have to come to Padua every day because of university. I attend the third year of Lingue Letterature e Culture Moderne, and I'm studying Anglo-American and Spanish. I have made the alternative choice of studying Anglo-American because the United States fascinate me very much, and I'd like to know everything about their history, geography and culture, and I'd like to learn about what makes American English different form British English. I have never visited the United States, but I hope to have the possibility to go there one day, and discover many interesting things about their culture. I don't practice any sports, but when I was younger, I practiced dancing, swimming, and volleyball...then, in time I have become lazy! During my free time I usually go out with my boyfriend Andrea. He is 24 years old and he graduated in computer engineering in October, and now he works in a big firm in Padua. During the week-and we go out and have some drinks, and then we watch some movies. We love watching movies, but he is well up in this field, more then me! We watch movies continually, every kind, action, comedy, thriller, dramatic, the only kind I can't watch is black and white, I tried, but I easily get bored and finally I fall asleep! My favourite films are "Catch me if you can" with Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hanks, "Forrest Gump" with Tom Hanks, and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with the great Audrey Hepburn, so you can see, one of my favourite actor is Tom Hanks. Sometimes we like watch a film in its original language, and this helps me to improve my listening and my vocabulary, too. It's a very good exercise, and it is funny, too! In the future I hope to become an English teacher, and I' d like to teach in the primary school in order to help children to lay the basis of their knowledge of the English language.