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Now we are living in the age of communication: mobile phone, internet, TV...

All these new forms of comunication have shown us that when we are communicating with the rest of the people we don't use only words. Our body is expressing itself at the same time.

What is our body saying about us?

- When we are listening to someone with our hand leaned on our chin we are interested in it.

- When we are doing the same but we have our hand palm leaned on our face it means we are bored, we aren't interested in it.

- When we are covering our mouth constantly we don't agree with the speaker or what he/she is talking about isn't interesting for us.

- When we are touching our nose so often it's a sign of contradiccion. We don't think what we are saying. However, it coukd be a sign of nerves or discomfort.

- When we have our arms folded it shows opposition or a way to go on the defensive.

- When we are with our arms folded but crosslegged too. It's a heavier way to go on the defensive.

- When we are touching our ear frequently it emans, we don't want to listen to what the speaker is saying.

- With our hands crossed behind our head we are showing we feel better than the others.

Sometimes when you are reading a book you read a sentence. You don't know why but it hits you.

"Sometimes I think my mother is part of the modern world and sometimes she seems a million miles away" from Bridget Jones's Diary.

It has happened to all of us hundred of times. And it isn't only with my mother (as Bridget says) but with other people. Sometimes they can understand you and your feelings like they live into your mind but it isn't all the times.

And then this sentence from our last reading book. ""Ray is crew-cut, reliable, myopic; he is full of liquids. He sweats copiously. Small bubbles of clear spit from at the sides of his mouth whenever he speaks at length. Laura imagines (it's impossible not to) that when they make love he must sput rivers... " from The Hours

It's wonderful, isn't it? Yes, I know, it's comical, funny. But the way he describes Ray, his words...

The descriptions in "The hours" are magnificent, you can imagine the characters but not only physically but also their emotions and feelings.

This is one of the Italian films which arrives to Spain. The story is simple but interesting,as it shows 4 different phases of love:

1. Tommaso falls desperately in love with Giulia and spends the rest of the episode trying to get her
2. Marco and Barbara are a married couple in the middle of a crisis
3. Ornella finds out that her husband is unfaithful and swears revenge
4. Goffredo is suddenly left by his wife and tries to go on with his life,which won't be easy

So,if you want to watch a good Italian comedy,Manuale d'Amore is recommended.

Panna cotta translates as "cooked cream". It's another tipical Italian dessert. Some people enjoy the panna cotta on its own, but it is usually served with a sauce which adds some sweetness (in the foto with strawberries sauce): the cream itself is supposed to be only subtly sweet.

Ingredients

1. 1l of cream
2. 100gr of sugar
3. 4 eggs
4. 2 packets of vainilla extract
5. 1 cup of "amaretto" (liquor); you can change it by cognac
6. some caramel

Preparation

1. Beat the eggs and mix them up with the sugar and vainilla.
2. Add the amaretto liquor and the cream.
3. Cook it in a double boiler at the oven (90').
4. Place into a container and cool to room temperature before refrigerating.
5. Add some caramel on the top when is going to be eaten.

You can change the caramel and put on some fruit sauce (raspberries, strawberries...)

As I have said you Moonlight. There's my Tiramisú recipe!!!

This is a tipical dessert from Treviso. Stories are told about how Tiramisu was the favorite of Venice's courtesans, who needed a "pick me up" (the literal translation of "tirami-su") to fortify themselves.

Ingredients

The basic ingredients are 3 eggs, 250gr of mascarpone cheese, savoiardi, espresso coffee, liquor (marsala, brandy, rum), 3 spoons of sugar, and shaved chocolate.

Mascarpone is a triple-creme cheese. It's made from the milk of cows.

Savoiardi are sweet, little, fairly dry, finger-shaped sponge cakes. They are similar to "melindros" but harder.

Directions

1. Beat until stiff the 3 egg whites.
2. Mix up: the egg yolks, mascarpone and sugar.
3. Add the 3 egg whites. You have to mix up until it's a cream. 
4. You have to add some of the liquor to the black coffee (it'd be cold).
5. Dip the savoiardi with the coffee and liquor mixture.
6. Put them in a container. 
7. Cover them with the whipped cream.
8. Repeat the layers, finishing with the cream.
9. Put some shaved chocolate on the top of it.
10. Refrigerate for several hours before serving.

If you like chocolate, you'd put some of them between the different layers.

Enjoy it!!!