Carnival
Not much to say (in reality -after writing this post- I see that there was enough to say), just that I was a little down in the beginning of my last 2 evenings, but as very often happens to me it’s better to go out when I’m in that (unexplainable) status.
On Friday evening I went to Bellinzona’s carnival. I just wanted to see the ambience, thus I didn’t prepare a real costume. Anyway I had a lot of fun: I met several people I didn’t meet since years! I stayed till 4am, if I remember well…
On Saturday evening I was waiting a friend of mine -Steve- from Lausanne coming to meet me and to party in Bellinzona together! Other AIESEC people lanned to do the same thing, thus as result we had a nice dinner in the AIESEC office (thanks Sabrina, Robin and Nader), then we went to Bellinzona together.
Saturday was a long, very crowded and funny night. I left at 5:15am in order to bring Steve directly at Lugano’s train station and Stefano at home. I went to sleep at 6:22am.
On Sunday I woke up at 09:00 and as I often do, I slept 20 more additional minutes… I had a meeting in Melano with Sabrina & friends. But as some friends were late I went with Selene -arrived just a couple of minutes after me- to Sabrina’s home. Sabrina has very hospital parents. It was a pleasure to meet them.
Anyway, the real adventure begun when we started the engine to go to Italy with Selene’s parents’ car, a big mercedes handling 6 passengers (us) without any space problems.
But in Italy the rubber brake (ND POL: "abbiamo bucato la gomma" come si dice in inglese? verifica…), so we had to change it with the reserve one. We were 2 men in the car, Lukas and me. Anyway it was nice to see a team spirit: we all helped (in particular Lukas and me, but the girls assisted us too) to fix the problem in a smooth way.
We finally arrived in Ivrea, where the funny part begun. The oranges battle begun at 2pm o’ clock. Luckily we had some impermeable jackets, but it was not enough to be fully protected against "friendly fire oranges". I’ve never seen such a big waste of fruits and something so crazy. But it’s a tradition since houndreds of years. No matter if it’s a waste: it’s a tradition and now that I’ve participated there I can understand that sometimes sustainability is "taboo" for certain activities.
I liked it very much.
I didn’t think to be a carnival fanatic, nor I think it now, but for sure I like it!
I published the carnival pictures on my personal gallery:
- Carnevale di Bellinzona 2005 (4 e 5-6.2.05)
- Carnevale di Ivrea 2005 (6.2.05)
Ivrea’s Carnival offocial site
Tags:February 7, 2005, Category: Personal
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