Exciting news for all chocolate lovers!! Fiera di Roma is opening a Chocolate Factory-Museum on November 18th until February 18th, a themed village designed to entertain and educate. Revealing all the secrets of chocolate. Enjoy 3 months of chocolate thanks to an agreement between Fiera Roma and the partner Helexpo, a trade fair organizer in Greece, who has already held the event in Thessaloniki and Athens (over 800,000 ). Another theme park filled with chocolate in all its shapes.
From the Amazon Jungle Chocolate Library, with a special reconstruction of the vegetation and the ruins of Incas temples, visitors will be able to experience the warmth and humidity of the jungle and will see real cocoa beans. Visitors can also find the Amazon hut, to make a journey in time and discover the history of chocolate. A labyrinth for delicious tricks, the show of musical instruments in chocolate, with eleven unique pieces reproduced in full size. In addition, it will be the largest chocolate cascade in Europe, with its 1200 liters of liquid chocolate. The Chocolate Factory-Museum will have laboratories where you can learn about chocolate processing techniques, tasting and preparation courses.
To enrich the theme park, you will find Italian Monuments in chocolate. An educational space for children to be involved There will theatrical games, and information about proper nutrition and health.
Culture shock is a very real experience for many people who move to another country. Anyone who has lived or studied or even traveled extensively in another country has tasted and lived through some level of culture shock. At the time it may feel more like homesickness, but what most people who haven’t undergone any kind of adaptation program don’t know are the stages one goes through when adjusting to a new language, country and culture.
Before you undertake these five steps, you should understand what culture shock is and what causes it. Knowing what it is and how it comes about will help you identify it more easily and make your international move a little easier.
The online Oxford Dictionary defines culture shock as disorientation experienced when suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture or way of life. This is a good summary; however, let’s break it down a bit further. When you move to a new country, everything is unfamiliar; weather, landscape, language, food, dress, social roles, values, customs and communication – basically, everything you’re used to is no longer in place. You’ll find that the day unfolds differently, that business is conducted in a way that may be hard to understand, the stores are opened and closed at hours that you could never predict. Your patterns are off-kilter, the smells, sounds and tastes are unusual and you can’t communicate with the locals – not even to buy a loaf of bread.
This is culture shock. And like any form of shock, there is a definite and almost certain reaction.
Symptoms of Culture Shock
- a feeling of sadness and loneliness,
- an over-concern about your health,
- headaches, pains, and allergies
- insomnia or sleeping too much
- feelings of anger, depression, vulnerability
- idealizing your own culture
- trying too hard to adapt by becoming obsessed with the new culture
- the smallest problems seem overwhelming
- feeling shy or insecure
- become obsessed with cleanliness
- overwhelming sense of homesickness
- feeling lost or confused
- questioning your decision to move to this place
The Honeymoon Stage
Like any new experience, there’s a feeling of euphoria when you first arrive to a new country and you’re in awe of the differences…to continue reading click here
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Bad news for commuters on Friday November 10th, Rome Atac has scheduled a strike and most of us hope they will cancel.
The strike is scheduled for Friday 10 November, from 08.30 until 17.00 and from 20.00 until end of service.
Rome’s buses, trams, metro and light rail services Roma-Lido, Roma-Viterbo and Termini-Centocelle, as well as routes operated by the suburban bus company Roma TPL.
Public transport services will run as normal from 05.30-08.30 and from 17.00-20.00.
The protest is over Italy’s controversial Jobs Act whose reforms are designed to create greater flexibility in the Italian labour market.
Several of the most recent public transport strikes in Rome have been changed last minute. For strike details see ATAC website
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR ROME EXPATS HERE
On Saturday November 4th an extraordinary opening of the Capitoline Museum and tickets cost only €1! The public will be able to admire the extraordinary sculptural and pictorial works of the Capitoline Museum and attend the shows.
MUSEUM OPEN LETTERS SATURDAY NIGHT FOR 1€
It will be the Italian music and the countless nuances of the Mediterranean sounds to inaugurate the first opening of the Capitoline Museums in November. After crossing the cloister and corridors of the Rome Museum in Trastevere, the initiative starts this weekend, the art of soul moves to Piazza del Campidoglio on Saturday, November 4 from 20:00 to 24:00 (last hour 23 – a symbolic ticket of one euro), a two-way show organized in collaboration with the Musical Foundation for Rome and the Embassy of Israel.
The protagonists will be the Middle Eastern sounds of Turkish-Israeli composer Yinon Muallem and his two Italian accompanying actors Andrea Piccioni and Simone Pulvano. The rhythm of the rhythm will stage a genuine musical journey through which you will discover rhythms, sounds and cultural instruments from far. Simone Alessandrini and the group of musicians formed by Antonello Sorrentino, Federico Pascucci, Riccardo Gola and Riccardo Gambatesa will also be protagonists. Saturday’s performance will be the occasion for the preview of Storytellers, the album debut of Alessandrini, released on November 17 for the Parco della Musica Records, the record label of the Fondazione Musica per Roma.
On Sunday November 5 at 11.30 am the weekend in music will continue with the free concert ritual. At the Carlo Bilotti Museum – Villa Borghese’s Orange will resound the oboe and pianoforte by Alberto Signorile and Giuseppe Barile in the concert of classical music organized with the collaboration of Roma Tre Orchestra entitled L’oboe, a protagonist of music from the eighteenth century to today.
The first weekend of November will host one of the events at the start of MIX Meet the Museum, the new project of activities aimed at enhancing the museum’s artistic heritage and the aggregation of the public. On Sunday, November 5, at 11.30 am the Napoleonic Museum inaugurates the theme meeting with writers. The author Silvia Bencivelli will focus his attention on the opera The Urania pendulum and to this will dedicate, in front of the audience, an unpublished script called Time Speech.
The two days are part of the initiative “In the weekend the art animates” promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Provincial Capitol of Cultural Heritage with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura. Collaboration with important cultural institutions such as: Casa del Jazz, Rome Music Foundation, Rome Theater, Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera, National Academy of Santa Cecilia and Orchestras of the Roma Tre University and Sapienza University From Rome.
The thematic path “Meeting with the Writers” is part of the project “MIX – Meet the Museum” (promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Provincial Capitol Building with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura, financed by the Lazio Region Law No 26 of October 23, 2009 – Public Notice for the Development of Cultural Services Systems) and the “Contemporaneamente Roma 2017” program promoted by Rome Capital, Department of Cultural Growth.
CAPITOLINE MUSEUM – Saturday, November 4th
Change the museum but the winning formula remains the same. The symbol of a symbolic cost of one euro will allow the public to admire the extraordinary sculptural and pictorial works of the Capitoline Museums and attend the following show program:
THE MELODY OF RETURN
Embassy of Israel – 21.00 and 22.30 hours Sala Pietro da Cortona
With: Yinon Muallem (oud or lute turkish, voice, riqq, darbouka, bendir), Andrea Piccioni (tambourine, bendir, oval), Simone Pulvano (riqq, bendir, darbouka)
The Turkish composer and poly-instrumentalist of Turkish-Israeli Yinon Muallem, specializing in frame, calico and turkish drums, will perform in the capital accompanied by an exceptional duo with the melody of the rhythm: Andrea Piccioni, artist who boasts important collaborations (Bobby McFerrin, Paul McCandless, Wu Man, Homayun Sakhi), and has been defined by the magazine Musica Jazz as an absolute master of frame drums; Simone Pulvano, the capital’s reference point for the Arab percussion and director of the Takadum Orchestra.
The program will be composed of compositions for lute, vocals and percussion from the repertoire for ensemble of Muallem, in addition alternating moments of compositions for solo drums framed by Piccioni.