It seems like one of those stories you read all at once, hoping page after page to reach an happy ending and that after all the pain everything would get solved. I am talking about you Carol and about everything that started ever since you passed away... let’s say ever since you announced you were …
Leggi tutto Michael Jackson in Daddy’s Home
There are people you meet, lose touch with and meet again discovering so many commonalities with them that make you wonder why so many years have gone by without you noticing. However, despite completely different life choices, you feel like you have always had something in common with them. This is what happened with Chicca. …
Leggi tutto Happy birthday Chicca
I never walked around Vijayawada with the enthusiasm that I usually have when I travel the world, I always go when I am in a hurry and generally do not feel like leaving Daddy’s Home, where I always have something to look after or spend time in Babies home. Going to Vijayawada means trying to …
Dear Patrizia, You asked me to write a few lines telling my experience as a volunteer, and here I am! I don’t talk about it often but when people ask me about what I do, I feel so much curiosity and I often get help and support in completely unexpected ways... It’s really true that …
Leggi tutto Elisa, when everything seems to be going wrong
The first week back is the hardest one. The one before is not a joke either: work problems become urgent and I need to shut everything down before I leave. Deadlines with tax authorities, suppliers, partners, all together force me to anticipate practices and payments as much as possible, so that no one ever will …
Leggi tutto I flatter myself that they are waiting for me
I have a natural inclination to negotiation, at least that’s what my family says, and therefore I am often “used” when we go for shopping missions in the city. In reality I have more audacity than others, while deceivingly thinking to have enough sensibility to understand when and if negotiating on the price is appropriate …
Leggi tutto The Indian salesman
The role of the volunteer here at Daddy’s Home really deserves an analysis and description. I don’t intend to rank the good ones and the bad ones, obviously this is not my role and it would not be useful at all. But please allow me to focus for a moment on some aspects that I …
The first time I ever set foot to India was during my honeymoon. I went to Tibet two years before and, on the way home, I stopped by Kathmandu in Nepal falling in love with it. Once I met Ugo, the saint that in over a couple of months became my husband, I expressed my …
Leggi tutto A honeymoon without visa
“I love myself as a travel buddy and if I could I would pick myself for every journey”. This is just one of the many things he said with sincerity and conviction while walking through the orphanage courtyard. The good thing is that he is right, and he knows it, because Erminio is really amusing. …
Leggi tutto Erminio, also known as “the perfect travel buddy”
La mia esperienza in India 