Summing-up

I'll have my CAE exam on Wednesday. I'm sure I won't find it so easy as I found the FCE exam last December but I'm reasonbly confident... Perhaps not about my success in it, but about the hard work I've done since then. Ask my friends: they will all tell you that I'm living my life in English. And, what is more important, that I'm enjoying it. Studying English is like a very long holiday, doing the same kind of stuff you would do on a daily basis but all in a different language. It's hard at the beginning but you get used to it very quickly: you start understanding the movies, the books, the people... And, at a certain point, you're even able to forget that you're not using your mother tongue. The words disappear from your mind and they turn into feelings without letters, without grammar, an that's a really rewarding moment. Suddenly, you realize that all the effort you've made truly worth it. In my case there's also an extra point: the study of the English language has given me the opportunity of meeting a lot of people and places, and I'm sure it'll be a priceless gift for the future as it has been for the present. Next month I will go to the UK for a ten-day journey and I'll visit the British Museum, Trafalgar Square, the Big Ben and, above all, The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street. When I turned 30 I said to myself that this was going to be my best decade and I'm stuck to it. To take a case in point, this week I'll have three amazing events: Portland's farewell party on Wednesday, Robi's House warming party on Thursday and a multi-birthday party (included mine) on Friday or Saturday. It's going to be taugh, without question, but fun as well. I'll be bound.