Elisa Sergi: Polemic revolving around the june election in Florence

It is an acknowledge fact that in Italy the right wing (PDL) elects notorious show business people in politics and now even a football player , but the surprising and rather shocking news is that the left wing (PD) is said guilty of doing the same. Today’s news in the  italian newspapers revolves around Elisa Sergi.

ELISA SERGI is a young Fiorentine girl. At the age of eighteen, she worked on TV as a show girl. I happen to know her very well, we could say that we are good friends, therefore my point of view can be misunderstood as biased but it is not, I am trying just to report the truth and to be fair.

I really think that people who have been working in politics in Florence so far, are middle age with rather conservative point of view, and I think young people, could be exactly what we (voter) are looking for at the present time.

Why her ? Why not !

Elisa is young, she has a degree in psicology and is currently taking her masters , she has been working like a journalist for a long time. She has always been interested in politics, in her family everyone has a high education and she grew up in a proper environment. We used to hang out together and also talk about italian politics as I studied political science and this has always been my interest. Elisa always had a clear idea in what she wants for Florence and now it looks like she has the opportunity to show that a young girl with a good education can make it happen.

I wouldn’t want that the polemic around her is just used as a way to fight between the two parties and I wouldn’t want  her career as a politician  to be destroyed just because at the age of eighteen,  as hundred of girls wanted to be famous. However working like a show girl and having all this picture almost naked do not help her to make people take her seriously but I do not think we should put everyone at the same level. She was a show girl when she was eighteen but now she is a psychologist and works like a journalist, therefore she has the right to be respected for what she is doing now, and if this gives her publicity, we cannot but hope that people wont stop at the title but will read the whole article, as see that she is a smart, young, professional.

As she is starting from a low position in politics, she will have time to improve and to show if she is worth to be in politics and not like in other cases when people without experience and not even a degree, had an important position and we (voters)  had no the time  and way to reply to such an imposition.

Elisa Sergi and me in one of our nights out together in Florence

www.elisasergi.it

Corriere fiorentino

Antonietta Fishta

London

London Book Fair 2009 – Presentation of Lilou Mace’s book, I lost my job and I liked it

What is the London Book Fair?
The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Taking place every spring in the world’s premier publishing and cultural capital it is a unique opportunity to hear from authors, enjoy the vibrant atmosphere and explore innovations shaping the publishing world of the future. The London Book Fair brings you three days of focused access to customers, content and emerging markets.

Here there are some of the picture of today 22 April 2009, at the ” 38′ London Book Fair”, Earls Court. I had the opportunity to meet so many important publishers and writers at the world’s leading spring publishing event.
I am so happy, I had the opportunity to assist to the birth of my friend Lilou Mace’s first book ” I lost my job and I liked it” . Lilou gave me a special copy of her book, which she signed for me.

The book is really well written and it helps to turn the hard time of loosing a job into a good time. As she lost her job she empathise with others suffering at this time of economic hardship, and the porpuse of this book is to help the people to find a new career direction … and a new life direction.

Antonietta Fishta
London
2009

I LOST MY JOB AND I LIKED IT … Lilou Mace

I think it was 2 months ago when I read that my friend Lilou lost her job. I was on Facebook as everyday and I saw Lilou’s Status : “I lost my job today”. Nothing special in these days in London, actually, but still every time that a friend of mine told me that he\she was laid off, I felt a weird sensation.
I moved to London in August 2008, and in these months I saw London in a big economical crisis, lots of my friends from Italy, France and Spain went back because they lost their jobs and they couldn’t afford to live in London as is one of the most expensive city in the world.
Everything changed so rapidly that I was shocked, I come from Florence and in there nothing changes. People are always the same and the economy more or less is stable, who is poor will remain poor, who is rich, is rich and nothing can change it. If you are young you don’t get paid, you may get an internship if you are lucky, and when you get old even if you are not necessary to the company you get paid well, as no one can dismiss a senior.
You can understand the shock to see myself in the middle of hundreds of people of my age, with good jobs, earning a lot, and then people of my age living in very high class apartments in central London. Everyone was telling me that I will find a job soon and that everything is going to be all right, I was just incredulous …
SEPTEMBER 2008
From this month on, from Lehman Brothers collapse everything has changed. Lot’s of people of my age have been laid off and left the country. What make conversation is : Am I going to loose my job ? When? … Really mad, people are stressed, they look at each other thinking who is going to be the next one.
Newspapers and TV channels just talk about how many people lost their jobs in this or that company … and people get stressed and sad, of course than they don’t spend, they feel precarious.

When I first asked to Lilou, how is it going, she said that she was great and since she had lost her job she would have had time to be creative and write a book. A book about loosing a job but not loosing the smile and the optimism I saw in her the frame of mind that I was looking for, I’m graduating and starting to look for a job and I really was looking forward to find a friend that is full of hope and optimism for the future. In fact Lilou’s mission and vision is to help millions of people to live a joyful and fulfilled life. She is also a co-founder of the ‘100-Day Reality Challenge’, a global community experiencing the magic and power of the Law of Attraction 100 days at a time, you can find the video on you tube.

Here we are, the book is full of optimism so if you need some, just go for it, IT WORKS I PROMISE
You can find it at the library and on amazon.com, I’m sure lots of people will enjoy reading it .

The book is her 30-day stream-of-consciousness diary, from the moment she was lost her job. Travel with her as she grapples with doubt, relishes avocados and finds something to be grateful for in each and every step of her job search. Deploying a battery of mood-shifting, life-enhancing, and possibly reality-changing techniques, she attempts to prove to herself – and to you! – that a juicier way of living is possible. While 30-something Lilou would probably get on with the fictional Bridget Jones, her real-life diary is a very different thing.”

LILOU MACE

Lilou was born in Santa Barbara, California, in August 1977 of French parents. She grew up in Nantes, France, and, after graduating from Oxford Brookes University (UK) and ESC La Rochelle (France) with a BA in European Business Studies, returned to the United States, where she lived from November 2000 to July 2008. She now lives in London.

Lilou Mace is a co-founder of the ‘100-Day Reality Challenge’, a global community experiencing the magic and power of the Law of Attraction 100 days at a time.
From November 2001 until July 2008.

Lilou lived in Chicago and produced/hosted a local TV show called ‘Live a Juicy Life’. Her show was sparked by meeting Oprah Winfrey in November 2006. She has interviewed self improvement authors and Law of Attraction experts such as John Gray, Sonia Choquette and Judith Wright to name a few.

http://www.LilouMace.com

Lilou’s YouTube channel (over 415 videos, 1.8 million video views): www.youtube.com/liloumace

Antonietta Fishta
London