40 °C
Today in Sant’Arsenio it has been extremely hot (40 °C)! I drove to my grandmother’s house in the morning by my air conditioned car and when I opened the door I didn’t feel well for a moment. I hate this hot weather, I wish I was in Greenland!
I’ve just read that the English referee Graham Poll sent home from World Cup. Booking a player three times is a very funny mistake, isn’t it? However I would like to defend him in relation to my experience as referee. Most people think that only the players can make mistakes, and when a mistake is made by a referee the losing team often blames him for the bad result. If a referee is allowed to take part in World cup it means that it’s really good. So an error like the Poll’s one is just a very unlucky event, don’t you think so?
I’m going to prepare my luggage because tomorrow morning I’ll come back in Turin. I’ll set off at six a.m. from Salerno and I need more then ten hours to arrive there by train. I would travel by airplane but my mother doesn’t like it because she’s really frightened of everything which is able to fly! Anyway I agree with her and I catch a train just because Italian national airlines are quite expensive. It’s chipper to go from Naples to London then from Naples to Turin… mysteries of global market!!!
So I guess I’ll write my next post on train, like a travel diary… then I’ll send it in the evening when I arrive at home.
See you tomorrow (from Turin…)
Good bye
Antonio
Comments
Have a nice trip.
Hello Antonio, I have been reading your last posts and I really think this is one of the great ways to improve one's english fluency. Being a referee in the World Cup is not an easy task and they are subject to great deals and expeculation as well as other people directly involved in the games such as the players and the coach. It is easy to blame the referee by a team when it lost a game, expecially when they made a mistake. Making a mistake is human and everybody could make one and I believe the FIFA chose the best referees for the World Cup in the best way they could. Regarding to the prices of air tickets, usually it is cheaper to travel outside than within one's country. I do not know exactly why, but I think one of the major reasons is the fact that are not so many companies travelling with origin and destination flights in the same country (market rules). Best regards, Nuno
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