Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: voto toefl

Alla fine ho preso meno punti nella parte in cui credevo di andare meglio.
Reading: 29/30
Listening: 29/30
Speaking 20/30
Writing 29/30
Total score: 107/120
Va be', per il resto direi che non mi posso lamentare.
:-)
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

On May 28, 5:51 am, Enrico il Pentolaio
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Bravissimo!  Hai deciso dove andare poi?
A.

 Bravissimo!  Hai deciso dove andare poi?
Se entro nella graduatoria per la University of California (e questo lo
sapro' a dicembre), direi: 1) San Diego, 2) Santa Cruz, 3) Santa
Barbara. Los Angeles me la sconsigliano tutti (tu compresa), a Berkeley
non accettano undergraduate in informatica, a San Francisco c'e' la med
school, quindi niente, e infine Davis, Irvine e Riverside non mi dicono
niente, anche se ammetto di non essermi informato piu' di tanto su
questi ultimi. Lo step 1 e' comunque decidere quali altre 2 destinazioni
(oltre alla California) indicare... pensavo a Sydney (quale universita'
ancora non lo so) e uno fra: Vancouver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Chapel
Hill (north carolina).
Ogni consiglio e' graditissimo!
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Poi c'é sempre Curtin University.  ;>)
http://international.curtin.edu.au/
.
Joe (Curtin) from Massachusetts

 
http://international.curtin.edu.au/
.
LOL! That's where I should go! Oh wait, it's not listed on this
document,  dammit! :-( 
http://snipurl.com/2bdow
 [www_unibo_it - list of
American universities]
http://snipurl.com/2bdp2
 [www_unibo_it - list of Australian universities]
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

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If you could find some Surfer Girl from around San Francisco, she should
be able to tell you more about these California cities than I could.
I don't know much about Santa Cruz. I drove through there on the coastal
highway. It is not that far from San Francisco or from the Big Sur Country
to the south. Like San Francisco, it is too cold to swim in the ocean there.
They say that's the reason the wet suit was invented, right there in Santa
Cruz. Even further south at Monterey and Carmel, the surfers all wear wet
suits because of the cold water.
Because of its proximity to the San Andreas fault, it is at high risk for
earthquakes.
The original Spanish mission at Santa Cruz was destroyed long ago by
earthquakes and tidal waves.
Once when we were staying at a hotel in Carmel (Clint Eastwood was the
Mayor then), someone recommended a nice restaurant to us. The restaurant
was called the "Rocky Point", because it was built atop a cliff overlooking
the ocean. At night, they had floodlights illuminating the waves pounding
the boulders below. After we returned to our hotel, we heard on the news
that while we were at dinner, there had been an earthquake with its
epicenter near Santa Maria, about 200 miles away. We had visions of the
restaurant falling onto the rocks and into the sea, with us still inside.
Just another day in the earthquake zone.
I have been to Santa Barbara, and it is beautiful, especially at night on
the waterfront, but I always wondered where the people who work at
McDonald's live. They certainly couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara.
Many of the residents are the elite who work in Hollywood and commute daily
by air. The ocean water is just barely warm enough for swimming here.
Situated on the coast, there is a sense of isolation, with the only major
highways being those which hug the shoreline, running north towards San
Francsico and south towards Los Angeles, and this makes for difficult
evacuation in the event of an earthquake, since, like most coastal
California cities from San Francisco to San Diego, it is at a high risk for
earthquakes.
The old Spanish mission of Santa Barbara was once destroyed by an
earthquake. The current mission building is still used as the local parish
church.
They say that San Diego has the best weather in the US. I found the area
attractive. I spent a lot of time on the beach there. I have never seen so
many sailboats and other pleasure craft as I saw there. There was a marina
attached to the hotel where I stayed, and there had to have been 500 boats
tied up there.
There are probably about 100,000 military personnel on active duty in San
Diego, mostly Navy, and many thousands of retired military personnel there.
I think the San Diego Zoo, located in the city,  is the best in the world,
especially when combined with its sister facility, the San Diego Wild Animal
Park, which is located about thirty miles outside the city.
The airport, located in the heart of the city, is not on the Airline Pilots
Association "black star" list of the most dangerous airports, but I think it
should be. You can see into hotel rooms in the city as your plane approaches
the airport for landing.
The area is convenient for travel into the desert, which I love, and Mexico
is just a trolley ride away, about 15 miles.
Although not directly on the San Andreas fault, there are several fault
zones which are considered high risk in San Diego and the surrounding
countryside, and the construction techniques of the last century make damage
much more likely if an earthquake should occur.
The mission of San Diego, the first Spanish mission in California, is still
an active parish church.
Joe from Massachusetts

 an active parish church.
Thank God!
:-)
Thank you for such a detailed post!
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

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These are maps of all earthquakes for the past 7 days, most of very small
intensity.
It seems to me that the likelihood of an earthquake in Southern California
is about 1,000 times greater than the likelihood of an earthquake in all of
Europe combined. Of course, there are not that many major earthquakes, but
the odds are much greater in Southern California than in any part of Europe
that an earthquake will occur. I just wanted to point out this fact, not
inspire
fear. I never worried about earthquakes while touring California, but I was
always aware of them.
Europe earthquake map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Europe.php
USA earthquake map.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
Joe from Massachusetts

 Enrico il Pentolaio.
bye
ari

 looking at the various locations.
I'll get information on that later.
:-)
Thanks for the tips!
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
I chitarristi passano metą della propria vita ad accordare la chitarra e 
l'altra metą a suonarla scordata.

 Europe combined. 
Yikes. I think I'm going to "take" this course asap:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978472
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I wonder if the University of Naples has a similar course on volcanic
eruptions?
Joe from Massachusetts


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Tchau, -João do Sabão