Italian: hi my participant eh number is f c fifty eight dash p one

Italian: hi my participant number is f c fifty eight dash p two

Italian: okay so please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy uh a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Italian: please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Italian: okay so we can start our conversation if you want

Italian: yes i'm ready

Italian: you want to tell me something for example how was your day

Italian: well my day was great today um i was uh doing some homework and um and then i started eh you know searching for um articles online about eh you know the you know the the weather and also you know how the markets are going

Italian: okay simple daily things we

Italian: yes

Italian: check especially for the weather because here in italy it's boiling hot and

Italian: yes

Italian: i've been all day with my um fan just beside me because i was literally melting

Italian: yes i i totally get what you're saying i am always constantly drinking cold water because otherwise i will literally melt just like you said and also

Italian: i just finished to fill my bottle with ice

Italian: yes <laugh> well let's say that um especially here on the countryside there's not even a lot of wind so you know there's not even um the the cold uh the cold that can be on on the countryside we we don't experience it here so

Italian: no no but you know it started since i live near the seaside let's say um sometimes i can go there to uh breathe some fresh water from the sea but do not think that here in the city there's more wind than in the countryside because sometimes the heat of i you know um mm cars and all the ty types of you know uh pollution makes the air even hotter than in the countryside sometimes

Italian: also the hotness here in the countryside is even worse because there's no actual times of the day where it's not hot so the weather is constantly

Italian: <laugh> i get it

Italian: reminding me that i can't go to the sea and

Italian: <laugh>

Italian: i haven't even sunbathed this year

Italian: me neither

Italian: i went to

Italian: let's just say a touristic location touristic location because there there were also a lot of people uh near where we live and i burned my skin uh and my my arm is totally totally red since i'm super white and i cannot sunbathe either even if i try because it actually was a cool day but uh you know and this is my situation and my condition skin condition let's say

Italian: well have you tried i don't know putting aloe vera on top of the scar

Italian: i'm allergic you know

Italian: oh yeah that's true

Italian: <laugh>

Italian: i'm sorry i always forget that you are allergic to aloe vera

Italian: yeah

Italian: which which is a downside because aloe vera is good for everything

Italian: i know actually um i don't know when it was like this week let's say i was uh looking at some methods to make my hair let's say healthier and less dry than they are in this moment and aloe vera was one of the first um ingredients and uh elements that could help my hair but two weeks ago just to confirm my uh my being allergic to aloe vera i put on it was like um a shower cream shower something and it burned all of my legs like i actually started to see bubbles it was when i was in northern italy i was traveling in northern italy and i actually didn't know what i was putting on my legs actually after <laugh> this uh allergic moment i saw that aloe vera was in the ingredients and then i understood why but i'm here

Italian: you should always check the labels especially if you're allergic to something

Italian: yes but it was you know the little thing that give you they they give you in hotels in bb

Italian: yeah okay

Italian: you know i wasn't expecting uh them to be composed by aloe vera i thought they were accessible for everyone because a lot of people are allergic to it i think i am <laugh>

Italian: you're the only you're the only person i know that actually is allergic to aloe vera so i wouldn't say that a lot of people are but i feel like you would say a lot of people are because you are

Italian: <laugh> we

Italian: allergic to aloe vera <laugh> yeah but yes i understand i can tell you that actually aloe vera is very healthy for hair but if you can't use it there's also flaxseed eh gel which is very good for skin and

Italian: i saw it too

Italian: hair yes but it's a bit more complicated to make the diy okay like i have a lot of flaxseed because there was this period where i wanted to put it everywhere but eh i saw that it was a bit complicated to make and um

Italian: why

Italian: and even what well i think the problem with um you know gel diy is is the fact that you can't actually store it so you have to make very little amounts and then you have to you know store it in a fridge for three or four days otherwise they go bad and i hate it because i'm not very consistent with diy methods and all of that

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: like i i would prefer to freeze it but i think that also freezing products is not um once uh preserved there are there are elements there are nourishments that you

Italian: yeah

Italian: can't find in there so which is a bummer by the way because aloe vera is great for m i've experienced that aloe vera is very good for my hair and skin and the other day i was washing my face after i've i've done um a facial mask with aloe vera and the next day was just beautiful

Italian: yeah i saw it

Italian: and i was like oh that's that is that my skin oh really mm hmm

Italian: yeah i also saw a girl i forgot just this girl that uses hair gua sha with a a bit of aloe vera on her face and her face is glowing and i'm jealous because i cannot use it and uh you know i also have other products to use with the mm face massages but i feel like aloe vera is perfect because it's jelly it's um it's not oily so you'll not wash your face roughly after it but you know i'm allergic i have accepted it i can't even try i can't <laugh>

Italian: you're just accepting it because i feel sorry for you honestly because for your hair which is very dry and and sometimes it get it gets a bit brittle oiling your hair with rosemary oil which you do

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: uh is not like for me it's not the right option like for me specifically like every three days but i do oil my hair i find out that actually rosemary oil is very good for hair thanks to you

Italian: yes it was good for everything also because if you use olive oil produced here in italy extra virgin olive oil it nourishes your hair mm deeply

Italian: yes so uh for uh for you it might be a great option to you know increase the times of the week you actually oil your hair like i would do it if i were you especially in this period because your hair might get very very dry and dryer than in the winter

Italian: yeah yes you wouldn't even imagine how my skin because i suffer of a skin condition in uh my my the back of my head

Italian: okay

Italian: uh the also in the upper part of my head my skin gets dry uh it's a medical condition

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: so what i did is i went to the seaside and it was a sandy beach of course what happened is that little parts of sand got into my hair because you know i started running with my dog we were playing so sand was everywhere and it um started to make my mm head itch um it was terrible um and then i used olive oil just to cover all of the mistake i have i had made i've been madeing before and some part of it was okay but i think i have to to to to do better i have to increase the times when i do it in the week because it's with the fact that it's really hot i think this condition is getting worse and worse day by day i can feel it and my hair is like really damaged um yeah i feel like i have to go to a doctor totally <laugh>

Italian: mm hmm yes

Italian: again

Italian: i think you should because uh well uh i think the summer makes everything works worse uh so you know if you go to the doctor it's i think even if he tells you things that you already know at least you're sure that you're okay

Italian: yeah

Italian: and that you have to use certain products instead of the ones that you're using now because they're not working in the way that they should but uh don't worry i think it's just a matter of the weather being too hot because when you started using rosemary oil oil your hair had dramatically increased improved in you know the the shine

Italian: yeah

Italian: and they were more much more manageable they also got have got have gotten a little darker which i like on you

Italian: um now they're even blonder they on the contrary because of sun and i'm always at home so i i don't understand how the sun is bleaching my hair but yeah <laugh>

Italian: at least it's sun and not real bleach because otherwise your hair would be

Italian: no

Italian: but it would just fall off entirely

Italian: no no no no no no absolutely not i think i could i couldn't uh bleach my hair i uh think that damages are

Italian: nothing that you want mm mm

Italian: you know too many they they her uh they cannot mm you know i think that the damages goes directly on the roots um you can't shave it after <laugh>

Italian: well the you know what they say in every video they say that if you don't have um an healthy scalp your hair will ne will never grow in the way they should

Italian: no

Italian: so and i don't think it just starts from the scalp i think it's also a matter of uh diet and uh and stress levels

Italian: oh yeah

Italian: but if you're stressed your hair is very i is less likely to uh grow and to be healthy so one thing is the stress but also i think als mm external conditions are also very very bad

Italian: yes

Italian: and that may uh you know hur hurt hurt your uh your hair and damage it

Italian: yeah i've i remember that when during university my hair were um were like a nest of birds and they were dry and damaged and also because i used to eat like um junk food to feel happier or just to don't feel depressed depressed and um nowadays my my skin is better but my hair hair have worse worsened because of summer so i'm in a loop uh but you know i thanks to the fact that university is over i'm not that depressed anymore and i'm not eating junk food i am getting skinnier which is something i like uh yes

Italian: well you weren't that fat before so i don't think like

Italian: no no no i'm not fat i i was not fat but you know i choppy in my legs i have a little bit of fat in my stomach there's a i j i just have a stomach i'm not i'm not flat at all so

Italian: well girl i think the the the thing is that i think a flat stomach is i think is something genetical like genetics

Italian: yeah

Italian: but it's uh little parts of it but it's also the diet that makes a lot of the difference in in the way you see your stomach you know my body type is like how do you say it like a triangle like i have wider hips

Italian: is it i don't think

Italian: i don't know

Italian: i think it's rec rectangle

Italian: rectangle but you know my waist is not that little like i don't know i like my body type either way

Italian: okay

Italian: but um i have wider hips than than shoulders so likely

Italian: mm hmm inverted triangle

Italian: inverted triangle

Italian: yeah

Italian: oh yeah okay uh but it's something very slight so it's not that big of a difference in like if you see me from the front i'm not really inverse inverted triangle because my my hips are not that wide

Italian: no no no no of course

Italian: but they're wider than normal than normal people will

Italian: <laugh>

Italian: well i mean than other people okay so yeah but i've also noticed that in summer everyone gets skinnier

Italian: yeah

Italian: like i don't know if it's because we drink more so our body get more cleansed and it just expels bad things and i don't know we get skinnier because we sweat way more than we do in the in the in winter and also i think it's also because i started walking and i do walk a lot since i work uh you know in that pub and you know i walk a lot and it's a lot of dis a distance for like twelve hours a night

Italian: i think that's probably

Italian: i and i barely eat there basically because every time we start to eat uh me and my coworkers we also we everyone has something to do so we also we we all eat like separately and also we don't eat at at eight or at nine we just eat something whenever we can

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: so i eat very way less than i did before and also very sporadically

Italian: like what you you work at night am i right

Italian: i work from five p m to five a m basically depending on the depending on when we when we close the the pub

Italian: okay

Italian: yes but honestly there is there are like dead those dead hours where no one comes or it's just uh a few tables

Italian: of course

Italian: so you know one one of my other coworkers can just relax for a bit and then we just each give um get our moment to relax and when it's too dead we just basically close the pub because there's nothing else to do

Italian: okay now i i see your point when i used to work at the restaurant there were some hours or even nights when nobody showed up and i was completely free to be on my own and to prepare things for the next day for example but we couldn't close because uh the restaurant was inside of a hotel so we had to be at our client's disposal you know

Italian: mm hmm right i understand so well our pub is not like inside of a hotel so we can kind of decide when to stop and when to close the shop but it's also you know be with it being a pub there's also the thing that more most of the of the patrons come in at you know ungodly hours and you are to you cannot close the shop because that's the that's revenue that's still revenue

Italian: of course

Italian: and since the pub is relatively new uh it's not like they can close whenever they want so we have to get there and wait for people to go away

Italian: is it in the city center let's say city center

Italian: i think it's very close to the city center so yeah

Italian: and a lot of people go there am i right

Italian: <cough> not a lot but mm hmm you know what sometimes a lot of people come in and then they get out like after five or ten minutes because they just uh

Italian: drink and go yeah

Italian: do a lot of shots yes yes just drink and go or some of them just stay for hours and hours on end and they just order one or two things and just stay there on the table occupying the table basically for hours and they are just rude and there are times where like they come they stay for a few for i don't know half an hour and they just go away and they just spend all that money and they give you tips like i'm not not a lot of tips

Italian: have you received tips

Italian: because we uh yes we do like i don't know maybe the the patrons that come often very often or like almost every day they just they do leave tips because they know uh or even friends of the of the owners

Italian: okay

Italian: um they come in and they just i don't know they get a bottle of water it's it costs i don't know one or two euros and the rest of the they they give the owner five euros and the rest of the tip it's is ju it just goes in uh mm hmm the tips

Italian: and you share it right

Italian: the mm the change

Italian: and you share it every day or at the end of the week for example the end of the

Italian: no we buy a little container that is i think a metal we just put the tips there and when it gets completely um full we just cut it because you cannot open it

Italian: okay

Italian: otherwise

Italian: okay cut that up

Italian: and then i think we will share it between the

Italian: like a piggy bank

Italian: the coworkers yes like a piggy bank exactly like that

Italian: okay that's cute when i when i worked at the hotel

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: i i was not paid because it was a (())

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: and i was in front and the funny thing is that uh we were supposed to share tips but since i wasn't paid a coworker of mine told me you know you know dude tell me um tell me where the piggy bank is and so i told her and she decided that i i could take the the money for me like she brought me there thinking that i was putting the money in the piggy bank and then she put it in my in my little bag

Italian: hmm

Italian: that's (())

Italian: since i wasn't being paid

Italian: that makes sense because um i mean you're still offering a service you're providing the service for other clients you are not paid so at least the least they could do is you know

Italian: now you know because

Italian: give you the tips

Italian: let's let's put some context in it because my um patron was really attached to money and even if the storage was meant to be paid you know sometimes they give you something they give you also ten euros to go and get a beer or a glass of wine or to eat something with your friends since i was with my friends there we were working altogether and some of them were they were getting at least their own tips

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: they could get them to go anywhere just as a reward of what they uh had done but this man even it was if if if if it was like a five star hotel and a lot of rich people went there or sometimes italian people i saw there very rich people he was so attached to money that he couldn't care less of me not having money you know he couldn't care less he thought that it was my responsibility to go outside and eat and drink um to go with my friends after my shift couldn't care less so i was i had the opportunity to get some of the money thanks to my colleague because she knew this situation

Italian: well that's horrible honestly

Italian: huh

Italian: because as i said you're that's horrible because you are

Italian: yeah

Italian: you're just working for them you're making them make money and they don't even pay you and they won't even let you have the tip that is all ea all earned sorry it's all earned it's all your work there

Italian: yeah

Italian: and at least like let me get my money and they don't which is horrible now there it wor it works differently like even when i went to other um to other restaurants to eat the other day i was substituting um a friend of mine in in her work and she works at a restaurant and they pay me like uh thirty five euros a night

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: and uh there were these um these brazilian customers and they paid a lot and i think in bra in brazil and in america in general tips are paid like they are mandatory

Italian: yeah

Italian: so they gave yes so they gave us like twenty euros and uh the mm hmm the the owner was like you can get ten euros it's all your work so it was like twenty is for the other coworker and no ten is for the other coworker and the other half is yours so i was like okay i made i just made forty five euros today and i was super happy

Italian: of course because it's like a reward and it feels great also

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: and yes they are mandatory at least in uh in usa

Italian: <cough> sorry

Italian: because um my uncle told me that they are written in the bill

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: so when you're paying you're paying also tips which is strange to us because we don't pay tips

Italian: yes that's right like which is um it's very it's stupid to you know not <cough> to not tip the waiter because yes i mean you are paying for the for the ingredients and uh for everything else but you're not paying for their actual job like you're paying part of it but you should also pay for their service u unless it's not good which is which happens very <no-speech>

Italian: yes a lot of times also

Italian: like you remember when we went to the restaurant and actually i wanted to tip i think we tipped them right

Italian: we tipped them

Italian: when we were there

Italian: yes

Italian: yeah we did

Italian: we did

Italian: and mm i loved the the atmosphere in that restaurant it was very good and also the food

Italian: they were very good people

Italian: yes they were so nice i want to go there as well right now yes

Italian: oh and that's far away <laugh>

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: we have to take an aeroplane to go there so i don't think it's possible at the moment

Italian: yes at the at the moment it's not possible but yes i think i will visit the city later

Italian: uh me too

Italian: maybe not this year but

Italian: me too because um for example if we're going to to live in northern italy

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: it's way more simple to to reach every big city there instead of living in the south of course there are trains working a lot and mm some schedules of trains are you know

Italian: weird

Italian: here here yes but there there are if you have to for example go to rome from

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: milan you take four three hours it's fair but in the southern regions in three or four hours you cannot reach anything

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: yes i mean you can reach a small city but like i mean way it's way quicker if you take

Italian: yeah yeah

Italian: if you take your car and you go by car

Italian: yeah yeah

Italian: it's hor it's also horrible the streets are horrible here but yes i think yeah i mean i want to go in the norther city i wanted to i i actually wanted to go outside of italy but i don't know where and yeah and now i was searching today and i was like it's horrible to live here because if i want to go anywhere else like the the the costs are high like high high

Italian: yeah <laugh>

Italian: like you can't take anything you can't take the train because it will be a very long journey and i have no time to i don't know spend two days on a train just to go there and not counting you know going back to the place i live so it's horrible actually so i i just really want to go away from here

Italian: uh you're thinking about northern italy or

Italian: well the plan

Italian: other countries

Italian: the original plan was to other to go to other countries like i don't know france or belgium like i don't but after today i think france is like completely cut and cut off

Italian: did you talk with did you talk with other colleagues

Italian: colleagues yes

Italian: you were there

Italian: we were in search for the university

Italian: online with them

Italian: yeah

Italian: online with them

Italian: yes

Italian: they had a conversation i was not there because i was working for my thesis sorry but i really wanted to be there

Italian: yeah no don't worry

Italian: and i i saw bad things

Italian: you know it was confusing

Italian: yes i saw bad things

Italian: <laugh> you saw bad things you don't know half of it like for real like we were searching for for all universities there and there was none that was open like you have to you know uh apply for the university and all the applications ended in that like the deadline was on may the fifteenth or thirteenth

Italian: yes that's what that's what i saw

Italian: all the other uh all the other and also you had to go to another platform to get to uh apply for a certain university and depending on university the platform was the same the university was not

Italian: i saw yeah

Italian: and you had to make a new account every time for every different university and it was horrible because i was the one doing all this and the others were just you know looking with me sharing the screen and i was going insane because you know they asked asked for your um for your degree if you had any other degree if you had your uh graduation and all that it was horrible and all of that for two hours straight just to see that all the applications ended on at at may in may fifteen when we still had accents from our university and we was horrible because you there were a lot of pre requirements and huh and all of that and now and i'm still way more exhausted than i thought i would be and way more demotivated i'm i don't have any motivation to do anything right now yes and the only university that are still open are in mal at malta and in belgium two universities three actually three but i still don't and in their sites there is still no indication on which forms and andor documents you have to to give them to apply so there's written like application uh application deadlines ends on the thirty first of august but there's still no indication of what you have to actually present to uh to to give them as documents they absolutely

Italian: have you tried

Italian: mm hmm what

Italian: have you thought of calling them like like um calling them reaching them writing an email for example i can see that that line why there is not indication about what i have to give you what do you want just write to them i think they are way more efficient than here they will answer our questions

Italian: yes i well i will certainly i think me and the and our colleagues will meet tomorrow i guess i don't know

Italian: online again

Italian: i'm taking a wild guess yes online again and we will see what what to do uh what to what to see more but um i think all of us are really you know under the weather after seeing that all of the things that we wanted to do

Italian: yeah

Italian: are not open like i feel like i've lost a race even even before participating like i i've i haven't even participated in a race and i'm and i've still lost

Italian: mm hmm

Italian: and it's horrible

Italian: yeah everything related to what we would like to do is horrible i think there are no opportunities and if they are i if there are there are very strict um you know schedules and very strict you know requirements that you must have

Italian: i get it mm hmm

Italian: and they're just impossible and only few people can just have the opportunity to train well and to study that

Italian: wow i i don't know uh actually i don't know how much time before your academic here ends you have to think about all of that

Italian: i just have no time to do it to do to to think about all of those things before it ends actually so when it ends

Italian: yes because we have to so much work to do still

Italian: yes when it ends we just have to go with the flow and wait for for anything to be clear i don't know how

Italian: you think it's they i think um everything will clear up i hope so

Italian: we hope