I am happily retired. As a career I found myself in the business end of education. Spent most of my working life researching, developing and implementing a broad spectrum of local, state and national education programs. Other than some travel, my focus now is Il Volo and the Flight Crew. How lucky am I to have found such joy? I'm having the time of my life!
Oh, and I'll be a vegetarian when bacon grows on trees.
Il Volo, Italy’s representatives in Vienna scored the overall victory: Their entry Grande Amore, written and composed by Francesco Boccia and Ciro Esposito, won the Best Song category with 25.92% of the vote, and Piero, Ignazio & Gianluca scored a landslide victory in the Best Group voting with 37.13%, the best result ever in this category. Congratulations to Il Volo and to the writers of the song!
In the Best Group category, Italy’s Il Volo cruise to a landslide victory with 37.13% of the vote, the highest ever score in this category. Second place goes to Elina Born & Stig Rästa from Estonia, 18.80% of the listeners voted for them, followed by Norway’s Mørland & Debrah Scarlett in third place (11.44%).
I wish I had the talent for writing then I could have created a soap opera of the daily troubles that come to one during their daily life, but all I can do is forward suggestions of ideas that seem to touch me.
We seem to search for an answer why we are so affected by three young men with “heavenly” voices.
I saw the prose below a few days ago and it hit me that Il Volo in a way is my “Trouble Tree”.
By taking a moment to sit down and listen to their music I get to take time to leave the problems and when I get up and go back to the problem it has greatly diminished.
I am so grateful that three young men decided to try out their luck at a singing competition. That event gave us a great gift.
(Click on story for easier reading) (Author Anon.)
I am not a ‘gusher’ by nature, but at times something hits me. I and all the people that participate on this site have at times a need for a “Trouble Tree”.
Do you see the looks on those women’s faces? Think he’ll pass? I would give him a Doctoral Degree, he would graduate Suma Cum Laude and I would do all of his homework!
I know nothing about The Italian Education System. Do you?
Here are a few tidbits that clears it up a little:
From Wikipedia: Education in Italy is compulsory from 6 to 16 years of age, and is divided into five stages: kindergarten (scuola dell’infanzia), primary school (scuola primaria or scuola elementare), lower secondary school (scuola secondaria di primo grado or scuola media), upper secondary school (scuola secondaria di secondo grado,scuola superiore or liceo) and university (università). Italy has both public and private education systems.
Our Guys. Also from Wiki:
The Scuola secondaria di secondo grado lasts five years (roughly from age 14 to 19). Every tier involves an exam at the end of the final year, called esame di maturità,required to gain a degree and have access to further university education.
