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Hello everybody! I'm Valentina and I'm 20 years old...let me tell you something about me.
I was born in Vicenza, a small city near Venice,but during the week I live in Bologna where I study foreign langueges. They are one of my great passions: I already know English, German and Spanish and now I'm also studying Portuguese - just hope I won't get messed up! :)
I love traveling all around the world and expecially I love meeting new people and new friends..there's so much you can learn from them!
Friends are one of the things i could never give up... and I'm constantly working on this...getting to know new friends without forgetting the ones I already have.

In September I'll move to Granada, Spain and I'll live there for about a year. I had this great opportunity to attend university there and I just can't express how happy I am, how lucky I feel for this! I'm eager to leave even if I know I will miss my friends a lot, but I'm sure they will bw there when I come back.
I'm happy because I will improve my spanish a lot and I will meet a lot of new friends, but most of all because I think that this will be a great experience that is surely going to make me a better person.

I'm glad because I had many opportunities to travel in my life, and I visited a lot of places I wanted to see...
Now my big dream would be going to Brazil (and I think I'll be going there quite soon) and South America in general, but I'd also would like to go back to the US and visit the east coast (I just went to the west coast).
Other places I wish to visit soon are Australia, Portugal and India...I will see where my life is going to lead me! :)

always follow your dreams...someone explained it better than I could do.

In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho writes, "Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny...It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth...The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one...In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies."
so, this is my philosophy...never give up. When you wish something,don't give up...just MAKE IT HAPPEN!

This is a poem I love about travels...I hope you'll like it

Ithaca
by Konstantinos Kavafis (1911)

As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you' ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbours you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaca always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.

Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.