Barack Obama’s Win

November 5, 2008 · Filed Under World News · 3 Comments

Barack Obama

I didn’t think I would live to see the day that the United States of America would vote an Africa-American president into power.

Luckily, I have seen that day. Words cannot express how happy I feel.

Obama’s win not only provides the USA with hope, it is also a significant victory for the voice of common sense on a worldwide scale. He has planted the seeds of hope, not only for Americans, but for everyone in this world.

I know many of my American friends will be literally jumping for joy on this historic day. Read more

Tags: Barack Obama, Italy, president, USA

Tonight 25 August Feast of San Gennaro Volunteers Meeting in LA

August 25, 2008 · Filed Under Events · Comment

Yes, that’s right. This very evening.

Kathleen Warner has contacted me to let me know that if you would like to volunteer to help out with the Feast of San Gennaro, then go along to the meeting at (and say Kathleen Warner and Blog from Italy sent you!):

Christ the King Church
624 N. Rossmore Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
from 7:00pm-9:00pm

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to this meet up, because there are two more on:

Monday, September 8th, 2008 and
Monday, September 15th, both in the same location mentioned above.

I’m sure you’ll be made very welcome. The San Gennaro Feast is for all the family and is a fund raising event organised by the The San Gennaro Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping out children and families in need in the LA area.

If you would like to know more about the main event, then read on. Read more

Tags: Los Angeles, meeting, San Gennaro, USA, volunteers

Curious

March 3, 2008 · Filed Under This blog · 4 Comments

I had a look at Blog from Italy’s world wide rankings according to Alexa’s ranking service today, and I noticed a few interesting things.

First, most of my visitors come from the other side of the Atlantic. This is no great surprise, seeing as the USA is probably the most connected nation on earth. But in a very close second place is Italy. Now that did surprise me, as did my blog’s ranking within Italy: 13707.

I have noticed, and am pleased, that quite a few more Italians have been dropping in and leaving comments recently, but I did not really think they would be that interested in my waffling on about their lovely country. Must have been wrong. Sometimes being wrong is not so bad after all!

The surprises though are not over, though. Quite a few Germans pop in here too, which is great, but again surprises me. I mean I’m sure there are more than a few good German blogs that talk about Italy out on the www.

However, the biggest surprise for me is that people from the Philippines and Singapore are visiting too. Again, I had no idea that people from these countries would find my blog even remotely interesting, but some must - so a big thanks for visiting to my readers from the Philippines and Singapore.

I have to admit that it is little discoveries like this that make blogging so fascinating for me.

Who ever you are, and where ever you are from, please feel free to drop in whenever you like. And thanks for doing so.

Alex - the chap that writes all this, er, stuff