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A letter to a friend

A letter to my friend Pascal i want to tell you this little story from my life in 1995 when i used to rent out rooms in the appartment i lived in . I had just finished university and i had met up with two new girl  friends through my friend Steven . He worked at the university as a teacher of the English language and he had brought two teachers of English with him Robin and Sarina to my Party.  I was celebrating my achievement of a BA degree in English and German Literature.   That summer i had a 30 year old very blond Danish Hans  who came to stay .... In, the same period i had spent a lot of time with Robin from New York (also 30)  who had just seperated from her Italian husband and she was looking for some one new.  Seeing that they both liked classical music , i sent them out to the cinema and Robin was very interested and worked very hard to get this relationship  going with Hans.  Hans had been very lucky to have come to stay at my p...

Roberta's comment triggered of thought about this article...From The Guardian ; About The Iran Crisis

My Comment; I remember Roberta an Italian lady (high up in social status) and presumably on the liberal left (but was she on the far right ? who would knows? )  saying to me (out of the blue) in the midst of our conversation about other unrelated things  that "Iran is a delicious morsel that we could enjoy" ... who was the "we" ....  this comment made her sound like a giant feeding on people  and was too awful to talk about .... it did not sound friendly at all (me being the only one from that country in her presence!). This conversation came about a year after the young Reggeni had been sacrificed on the alter of political interest" .... who done it ? and what was going on in Eygpt now?  Those were a lot of questions which didnt have answers.  She said she was travelling to Cairo in the next days .... no connection excepting for what had been on the news. These days "mischief" has raised it's ugly head again  and we read that some cargo shi...