Beautiful Minds and Beautiful Shows

Looking sharp at Finch & Fork

This week has been filled with events and great meetings!! It is impressive how sometimes the week gets inexplicably busy! But you know, once you get involved with school activities and projects, it is like getting sucked into a black hole and it is impossible to get out of it!!! In particular, this Wednesday I have attended the Our Revolution screening of the documentary “Requiem for the American Dream” followed by a discussion between Professor Bobro, Professor Martorana and Professor Zare. On Thursday, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the panel called “Untold History, Uncertain Future” held by screenwriter, film director and producer Oliver Stone and History Professor and Nuclear Studies Institute Director Peter Kuznick. And finally, I went to my old host family house to watch the most wonderful show of the year: THE OSCARS!!!

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Both the documentary screening and the panel were super interesting and addressed important issues in a very interesting way. The documentary starred Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant minds of the the century, and he “discussed how the concentration of wealth and power among a small elite has polarized American society and brought about the decline of the middle class”. Very interesting and eyeopening! Instead, the following day the whole Phi Theta Kappa leadership went to have a formal dinner at Finch & Fork and then attended the panel organized by the notable Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It was unbelievable to see that even famous and affirmed film directors such as Oliver Stone can have a clear interest in the issues regarding war, government and politics… Really cool!

Walking on the Red Carpet

As for the Oscars… Well, it has been an amazing night! At about 5.00pm I took an Uber and went to Marcella’s house, my favorite host mum, and as soon as I arrived could tell the party was on!! She adorned the house with “Hollywood and Celebrity” decorations, and inside the house there were also prompts such to take Hollywood style pictures. The TV was screening the oscars and pizza and snacks were served!!! The Oscars were an amazing show this year, starting from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue to the big screw up in delivering the award for best picture to the wrong nominated movie. So much fun!!! Besides the Oscar, I loved being back.. It feels so much like home and I really miss being at Marcella’s house. She had done so much and took care of me for whole year she is truly my American mum. Can’t wait to be back and visit her again!!