Remaining on the theme of snow in Milan, we take the opportunity to re-publish a humorous article appeared in the January 2009.
Waking, Tuesday, January 6, Mark, a medium-Carducci, he saw hanging in his room the sheath of the Epiphany. He got up immediately and went to discover the content chocolates and candies with zucchini sauce: practically inedible.
Enraged, he left the room at a gallop toward their parents, to express all their anger. In the living room, though, as if by magic, his attention was attracted by something else than windows, everything was white. Gently pulled back the curtain and ... SNOW! But it was not stingy with the usual snow and insecure in Milan, it was really great. So much that if he had continued to fall Wednesday the schools were closed definitely!
Mark then began to jump for the home, worthy of the best emitting trumpeting elephant.
After the attack of euphoria, phoned his friends proposing a good battle with snowballs, heedless of the 80 math not yet taken place, the reading of "In Search of Lost Time," only half done, and dell'Anabasi of Xenophon, who had not yet finished translating.
He stayed out until 18. Come home, sore and wet but happy, he looked on the Internet, secure the closure of schools for the next day. He managed to find a list of municipalities where schools were closed: the city of Como, Varese Municipality, the Municipality of Brescia ... She felt almost useless to try if there was also Milan in the list. However, also continued to scroll through the list: City of Lodi, Mantua town ... And Milan?
screamed as if he had a dog bite. How was it possible? He rushed to call the phone Carducci half, but the response was one and only one: the day after the school was open!
Marco attempted a desperate comeback: he was from 21.30 o'clock in the morning to do mathematics and, simultaneously, to translate the Anabasis.
Wednesday woke up an hour earlier than usual and, with two circles that covered half of the cheeks, walked. Since
the snow was up to the knees, he thought that it would take less time swimming. In fact, stroke after stroke, arrived at the bus stop in a record time. He waited for the bus for about thirty minutes. This came just before Marco frozen. But it was full. The brave few who tried to board were subject to insults, spitting, kicking and beatings (in extreme situations, people are really willing to use any means). Mark, therefore, saw fit to go to swim until school. Thus, alternating freestyle butterfly style, crossed half Milan came to Carducci. Exhausted, he sacrificed the entire monthly salary to buy enough machines for Coffee can stay awake all morning. The first three hours spun smooth.
the fourth time, however, there was physical education. The professor, noted with regret, after having personally tested the conditions that the court of the soccer field was unusable. The lesson then was held in the courtyard of the basketball court. After a run of heating, but it does not much warmed students, play a basketball game. The result was a 32 paralyzed toes from freezing to 27.
During the fifth hour, the Italian, the teacher spoke of "In Search of Lost Time", starting from the sixth volume, in which Mark had not arrived, and questioning his classmate, who, after taking fourth, beat Mark to the inability to suggest anything.
ride home was not hard as the first leg. Marco, in fact, found the cross street, which belonged to the deceased for freezing and returned home with them.
spent all afternoon to sleep, hearing the bullets, grenades and missiles were fired during the conflict of jurisdiction, which broke out around 15 between the Province and the Municipality of Milan, close to, or less, school the next day. The conflict was won by the militia of the City, unfavorable to the closure, while the army of the Province, that was rather positive, it is entrenched in a few high schools, which then remained effectively closed.
Mark woke up at night, oblivious to everything, and looked at various news programs for information on a possible closure of schools in the next day. On certain channels, said closed. Other: open. He tried on the school website, and also received confirmation from his friends, he was convinced that the day after the schools were actually closed. He went back to sleep, quiet.
When at 8.15 am, a fellow a bit 'workaholic called him, saying he was open Carducci, Mark thought, "I'll be dreaming of the opposite what actually happens. "
and turns in his bed.
Dario Elio Pierri
Dario Elio Pierri
