Global Opportunity: A Definition

The title and contents of this blog were largely inspired by an exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia. The theme was architecture and the purpose was to discuss who architects would be designing for in the future.

The [global opportunist] was defined as the following:
WORKS on remaining a student for as long as possible
LIVES where his studies take him
CELEBRATES freedom
BELIEVES one day he will settle down. Maybe.

As this seemed like a fairly adequate description of my life at the moment, I took it on as a project to document [global opportunity] in all its forms and hopefully say a thing or two about people, places and life for a new generation in a world of opportunity.

Since obviously I can't presume to speak for everyone, this is meant to be an open forum for discussion, hence the plural [opportunists]. If you are interested in posting your experiences and consider yourself a [global opportunist] as well, give me some time and I'll figure out how to make Blogger do this for all of us.

In the mean time, if you have a story, experience or observation that you wish to share in WHATEVER language, please write to me at:
matthew.arancio@gmail.com
and I will be sure to post it.

Como and the Alps

Ok, so this was very nice.
A few friends and I jumped on a train last Sunday morning to head to Como for the day. Here are some photos from our adventure.


The city is right on an alpine lake.




There were a lot of beautiful palaces.


It's all of course very picturesque.


It was nice to see the fall colors...




...and we had a delicious lunch at a place we all decided was a tourist trap. Rick Steve's rule about the bilingual menu is impossible to avoid.


Then we walked some more...we had to take the funiclar from the city to a small town located in the mountains above called Brunate.


The views were great. I can't quite tell if that's humidity or pollution though... it's probably better not to ask.


But of course, we eventually had to head back down...


...where we checked out some more of the city.


After all that walking we were all very tired and passed out on the train home.

The end.

1 comment:

Julia said...

Como is beautiful! Ian and I stayed in a town up the east side just before you hit Bellaggio. Across the lake from there we went hiking and nearly died from steepness and scree, and Ian had no travel insurance. The view was beautiful, but was also very smoggy then (in May). Bellaggio was maybe my favourite part of that trip, it's really chill there.