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Charlotte ... who was he?

Data: October 17, 2007

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I happen to go to Charlotte. Charlotte? What kind of city is asking me before you get there. I'm going from Indianapolis to Orlando (the country where there is Disneyland) and the plane makes a stop in Charlotte. I wonder who has organized the transfer, "there is indeed a direct flight?" "I have to move to Charlotte?". Unfortunately it seems so. And so at 9 o'clock in the evening landed in the city that has:

  1. the largest fundraiser for the arts in the world
  2. the highest percentage per capita of 500 companies in the fortunes of
  3. the highest percentage of flights per inhabitant.

A classic record of the American province, unknown to many, the pride of the inhabitants.

A huge airport with hundreds of flights, aircraft in the waiting rooms, they are so large, hundreds of people around. I stop the dozens (hundreds) of stores to learn more. This is the strength of prov incia American, I stop and look around. A huge billboard, informs everyone that the "new bathrooms (processes) that will soon be over," there is also the simulation of the figure of the new bathroom will be. But how are these incredible Americans, and chubby babies, but they are accountable, rendicontano, tell, overspiegano, swollen with information, they tell you everything you need to tell you and more. So even if there 'a bath, because of a "major restructuration" the customer, which is a citizen who pays taxes, does not go away unsatisfied (and not because some fool says on television that "taxes they are beautiful ... ", but because I put the whole). I've made in a small bathroom, small, but in a few months everyone will do in a bigger and more beautiful.
The moral: Simple. Needless to say, inform, explain, describe, and then after a while 'to communicate, explain, describe, and then after a while' still, continuously and tirelessly. This is the way to "fund raising". Charlotte, the city with the highest collection of fund raising for the arts across america (or around the world).
They are flying from Charlotte to Orlando, I get in the plane and there 'a seat, a fluke I travel first class. They are next to a lovely lady (at least I guess), a 40-year-old seems a bit 'sketchy. I'm tired, I'm not going to talk to anyone, but at the end of the flight, it makes me "had a good flight?" In the final five minutes and so I find that is a mother of 5 children and lives in Orlando and that his husband is home .... and it's all happy!

I love this country, I love these people, so improbably girl, yet so probably seekers of happiness, other prospectors. I see them in their eyes, students in the campus that I attend, the tired faces that do fly, as they do in the lesson.
Do not change one iota the judgment and the power that I transmitted the first long trip of '92-95; are seekers. Looking for something decidedly more tired of us Europeans. They are hungry, we have already eaten ... (and we also burps, because we have too). Even if they are seeking more, looking for something more, another limitation to be overcome.
I do not ever take away the pain of America, and the problem is that I coming back (increasing) in a violent way, and have not yet returned to New York where I lived for many years. Who knows how it will be, who knows what I see.

5 comments to post.

  1. giving the date October 18, 2007 wrote:

    I have no U.S. experience, but I thank Prof to send me his feelings travel.
    Thanks

  2. Vittorio Maria Camerini the day October 18, 2007 wrote:

    Thanks Valerio, you're making me take a little vacation but I'm here in Voghera, in the "My" small portion of the Po Valley. Reading this latest episode of your trip to Charlotte, I see two things: first, Your smiling face that watches every single detail and enjoy it with a mixture of awe, envy sound of what to do and see anger here because we lose time, we do not know when it would do just as well as many numbers to do and do well.
    The second thing I see is that the next Master of Prof. Melandri, I know precisely, but no longer at Forli in the States. Continue to tell of Your wonders and make us dream. Thanks Vittorio Camerini

  3. giving the date October 18, 2007 wrote:

    Instead we hope that the next will be the stars and stripes :-) )

  4. laura the day October 19, 2007 wrote:

    I agree with what was said by Vittorio and I add that the "news" of Prof. Melandri insists on "special" because they actually have to "make a difference." I remember a recent lecture in which he insisted in wonder "what we diversified from other service agencies and educational projects and especially how and in what way we could communicate our value added." I believe that the fund-raising in this sense can really make a contribution, and the life experiences of Prof Melandri in the States I can not but agree with those who said that "applying the persons do not make the trip but the journeys that people make" good continuation

  5. Alessandro Crespi October 26th, 2007 wrote:

    Dear Editor,
    Thank you for the emotions that you managed to convey through your passionate stories from the United States.
    I'm back in thought to my American stay at Dartmouth College and I perceive by your narrzione the same feelings that I experienced in my turn in the summer of 2006.
    I've never managed to put names to those states of mind, but I think you managed very well to condense everything with the word "wrong in America."
    Continue to tell with the same passion your days in America. Thank you.
    Alessandro Crespi

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