What are the parts of a swimming pool? What do we need to have with us when we go there? Marika answers these questions.

The author recounts his childhood as one where he felt, for various reasons, insignificant, a nobody. He reflects on how those memories have shaped his life and his writing. Personal memories, together with a return to the various sites in Caserta, allow his feelings about the past to keep resurfacing.

The return to L'Aquila after the earthquake becomes a journey of personal and collective reconstruction, in which creativity, memory, and the search for meaning interweave in an attempt to transform pain into something new and beneficial.

Here is some basic vocabulary used at the gym. Where do yoga classes take place? What are popular group lessons? And where do you sign up? Marika has the answers.

Francesco Piccolo tells the story of Caserta through the places of his childhood, weaving together personal memories and reflections on fragility, identity, and the origins of his vocation as a writer. Note that our host, Annalena, talks about moments of negligible happiness and unhappiness. She is also referring to the titles of Piccolo's 2 books, Momenti di trascurabile felicità and Momenti di trascurabile infelicità. There is a film based on both books, whose English title is "Ordinary Happiness."

An intense account of the L'Aquila earthquake: the story of saving one's own family intertwines with a reflection on the profound material, psychological, and human consequences of the earthquake, and on the difficult future of the city.

In this "Vocaboliamo!" lesson, Marika presents Italian vocabulary related to the gym, explaining the names of the people who work there or attend it and the main training activities.

After leaving Naples, the journey continues to Caserta, a city suspended between the grandeur of the Royal Palace and the identity of a province that balances tradition and modernity. Here Annalena meets writer and screenwriter Francesco Piccolo, who shares his deep bond with the city where he was born and raised.

People who survived the earthquake describe their first reactions upon feeling the tremors and then upon seeing so many homes and buildings in ruins. It was hard to believe it was real.

With Marika, we enter the gym to learn fitness vocabulary! We discover the names of the equipment, the body parts they train, and many useful expressions. Are you ready?

Diego De Silva talks about his journey as a writer, explaining how he has tackled themes such as the Camorra and pain with an anti-rhetorical style. He shows how, through irony and humor, it is possible to better understand reality, distance oneself from it, and reflect on the values that truly matter.

A restorer reflects on the value of art and restoration, which for her have been a lifeline after the L'Aquila earthquake. Other artists highlight how art can become an instrument for personal and collective rebirth, capable of creating spaces for sharing, giving meaning to lived experiences, and contributing to the social and cultural reconstruction of the city.

Ready to fill up your backpack? In this video, we discover school supplies and their "superpowers": from the smock to the pencil case full of pens and pencils, all the way to the calculator for the trickiest math problems. There is a tool for every task, so students can stay focused and organized.

In the historic center of Salerno, Diego De Silva revisits childhood memories and recounts how writing and the character of lawyer Malinconico helped him face and overcome a difficult period marked by illness.

Artists grapple with the grief following the earthquake in the southern Italian city of L'Aquila. They describe art as the ultimate human response to the "chaos" of nature, art as a mirror to process this deep, invisible grief.