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Hello From Sicily – Language Studies
With the images from my beautiful excursion around Mount Etna still etched freshly in my mind, I prepared for another day of Italian studies at the School of Babylon. After a relaxing breakfast on the panoramic terrace The Hotel Villa Nettuno, admiring the magnificent view over the Ionian Sea, was ready for another day of school ..
Without delay at 9:30 and began the lesson our teacher taught us the subtleties of language Carlo pronouns and prepositions Italian. These are always complex topics in any language, but with all the exceptions to the rule, the Italian has definitely entered an additional complexities. I loved the teaching style because it provides information and corrections Carlo consistently, but funny. After some practice grammar apply what they had to learn, then we close our books and Carlo threw phrases that we had put in the correct grammatical form.
Just before noon, I sat with Alessandro Adorno, the founder and director of the School of Languages Babylon. He invited me to a treatment typically Sicilian a "slush" – ice cool taste of lemon, orange, peach, strawberry, melon, coffee or various other flavorings. We sat on the terrace of "Mambo" and everyone had a granita, accompanied by a sweet bun, a favorite breakfast of Sicilians. The brioche is dipped in slush ice cream and savor every bite. Alessandro explained that the slush is consumed at any time of day that the small lunch, an appetizer and dessert. He explained that Italians usually only drink cappuccino for breakfast, while tourists have cappuccino at any other time of day.
We started talking about courses that offer specialty Babylon programs that include hiking Walking, cycling, diving, golf, cooking and pottery offer additional challenges and rewards students in tongues. Alessandro said Hiking Often in small groups or one-on-One, which provides a very intense experience. Cooking classes are held with local families and really give students a taste of home cooking always uses ingredients of the highest quality silicon costs in the region to create a fragrant dish. During the courses, help students preparing food and after dinner with the family enjoying the resort, offering many more opportunities for cultural and linguistic immersion and a reason to communicate actively.
I also noted that traders and local restaurants that had met were extremely friendly and willing to discuss with strangers. Alessandro said that it is general in nature and the fact that it high season, however, it is easier to communicate with residents. He mentioned that in the summer when it's really busy Taormina many traders are taxed to the limit with work and less time or opportunity to communicate.
Alessandro explained that Taormina is a favorite tourist destination, and the Greek Theatre is an attraction set. Art explained that Taormina is a local arts organization that brings art theater, music programs and dance in the city during the summer months. internationally renowned musicians as Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, James Taylor or the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, all artists have played in the famous ancient theater of Taormina. Many other events are held free at various locations throughout the city.
Taormina I learned that became famous in the 1800s when writers such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Guy de Maupassant or DH Lawrence visited this picturesque spot. Alexander von Humboldt, the famous scientist and naturalist German explorer discovered Taormina and the end of 1700. Alessandro I mentioned in my recent travels in recent years had met Alexander von Humboldt several times: first in Havana and then to Taxco – Mexico and more recently in the Canary island of Tenerife. Somehow, without know, I had followed some of the steps of the ancient world are also traveler.
There was a particular problem, I wanted More on: No unpredictable I wanted a deeper understanding of this famous organization of Sicily's Mafia. Alessandro has extensive knowledge history, politics and social sciences and began to explain that in the southern agricultural south of Italy a feudal power structure, governed by the aristocracy prevailed for centuries. These feudal landowners by campieri called "where did their" states "or large areas. The campieri were responsible for supervision and management planning, the administration of justice and given absolute power and performance weapons. In general, the "justice" was determined on site and arbitrary, without trial or judicial proceeding.
The vast majority population were very poor, had no education, had many superstitious beliefs and had a deep fear that "the system". This feudal system, administrative and enforcement was the beginning of the mafia in the past 150 years has become an international company which includes things such as drugs, weapons, prostitution, various illegal rackets, gambling and often misuse of public funds. Today Mafia is not only in Italy but throughout Europe and North America. Organized crime from other sources, such as Russia and Asia is also often called "Mafia", although this term, in fact, come to Sicily.
Alessandro enlightened me on the economic importance of the mafia and gave me a simple numerical example associated with the drug: if around 60 million Italians dollars a drug problem that may require € 100 per day, this would result in daily income of 100 million or 3 million euros on a monthly basis. Annualized this works 36 million euros only for Italy and the number of similar magnitudes to join other countries in the European Union. In addition Income from all other branches of organized crime. Given these figures was more surprised when Alessandro was referred to the crowd like an "undertaking".
I learned that the crowd comprising a network of people in a hierarchical structure: drug traffickers first line and application to drug wholesalers and arms to politicians and lawyers, according to Alessandro, as the "education mafia" bankers and financiers that generate and transfer money at the highest level nationally and internationally. The Mafia is a complex organization with tentacles in many cities, regions and countries worldwide.
Historically, the spread Mafia in Sicily, from the end of 1800, when many Sicilians emigrated United States. They were in search of new opportunities and ways to escape the feudal system, the old, but has many old ways of doing things with them. In many ways, the Italian Mafia in the United States are better organized and have sought new business opportunities. The era of Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s became a fertile ground for profitable activities, illegal transactions that have alcohol related of smuggling prohibited, prostitution and a variety of other illegal activities.
The Sicilian Mafia also played a key role at the end of the Second World War, the allies wanted to arrange a landing, a northern, near Dunkirk, and in southern Sicily. Alessandro explained that, according to documents recently discovered, contact the former members of U.S. CIA Mafia get the Sicilian Mafia to help with the landing of the Allies. With the help the mafia, the incursion of Allied forces in southern Italy, near Syracuse was actually very good and there was no major battles south of Monte Cassino to Rome in the Italian peninsula.
The Allies liberated Sicily and the Italian Fascists remove mayors and instead install the mayors and managers of connections with the Mafia. Thus, the hoodlums had access to powerful political and public after the Second World War a situation that persists to some extent today. After the war the U.S. backed candidates often outcasts in local elections against candidates to communist rule, and this created a situation were often linked to mafia candidates well established in local and regional politics. Consequently, public money is often diverted to illicit purposes.
Alessandro has a deep knowledge of Italian history and connections were fascinating. He suggested that I drop tonight in a cooking class organized by Babylon, an offer that was definitely planning to take him.
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