Feanor

Thanks.
My birthday is today, 23, I posted last night.

Sorry for not writing in english.
My english sounds inadequate when it comes to expressing myself.

About taking things seriously, like I said above I guess you need at least one good thing to think of when bad times come. It is difficult when you can't think of any. Anyway I don't want to sound pathetic also on MyOpera

"Buio" means "dark".
In italian you have got male and female cases (neutral doens't exist). So you have "luogo buio" (male case - dark place) and "casa buia" (female case - dark house).
The plural form of male cases that end in "o" is "i", like "luoghi bui".
The plural form of female cases that end in "a" is "e", like "case buie".

Do you know any latin?

The good thing is italians are used to adapting because, besides being generlly friendly with strangers, till very recent times they themselves did not speak "italian" but very different local languages.

For example my parents grew up in Tuscany so I speak italian (that is a very close variation of tuscanian local language) with a lombard accent, I can very hardly understand the local language of Milan and I don't understand at all the language spoken in Bergamo, about 70Km east from here.

Today's italian became common only after WWII when people travelled more across Italy, more people went to school since before most Italians could not read and write and finally the TV began to broadcast shows in italian.

On a side note, about 70% of italian words comes from latin but there are some importand differences in the grammar. Here in Italy you study latin in some highschools named "liceo" and also greek (actually the attic/ellenistic version) in the "liceo classico".
Once the catholic mass was in latin but it was abolished around '60s for the mass in italian. Lately the Pope changed the rule and the latin mass can be done for those who prefer it that way.

Oh, one more side note: till about 20 years ago italians were probably more friendly with strangers, due to the fact they were mostly tourists from west Europe and US. You know, more or less the same "koine" (greek word that means cultural community). I mean, a German isn't anything new here since about 3000 years, Norwegians are well known (see the dried fish ) since the middle ages. Today we are dealing with million immigrants from outside Europe and east Europe that don't mix well with the local culture and so I guess italians are getting way less friendly. It may sound racist but no problem with you I guess since you look nordic from 1Km far.

Thank you.