Elisabeth and Isabel singing, their boyfriends are dancing in the background.
It is night, the girls are playing a song with a guitar and a drum. Dad: “hey girls, could you please make less noise? we are bothering the neightbors who are trying to sleep.” Elizabeth: “oh, ok” Dad: “Thank you”, The girls looks at each other. Dad surprised hear the music again. “hey did you understand what I said” Elizabeth: “yes! of course we understood” Isabel “yeah, we understood” giggling. Dad: “I am serious: please stop now” E: “alright, we will stop” Dad: “thank you”, girls look at each other and giggle.
Elizabeth, Isabel, Henry, Andy playing in the snow with 2 little snow-people
Elisabeth singing
Elisabeth is looking in love at her boyfriend
Anna draws a little face on an egg, then she put it into a model rocket. She fills it “add acid…” “….and alkali! (baking soda)” she is ready to launch it: “….3, 2, 1, launch!” “go, go, go!” the rocket go into the air, and after a while it goes down, open a parachute and lands in the neightbours’ garden. Anna: “Oh, no!” “what a disaster! neightbours will not be happy…” neightbor: “nooooo!!!! my garden!” Anna thinks: “ecco!” “oh, no! ora sorbirsi le loro noie…” she has to face angry neightbours. A: “sorry”N: “you destroyed my garden! do you have an idea of how much work it takes?!” “blah blah blah…….” Anna thinks: “ok, abbiamo capito, uff, si lo so gia che dovevo stare piu attenta”. After dealing with neightbours, she took her egg out of the rocket “but the egg-naut survived! it did not broke!” yu-hu!
It is evening or night, Michael and Anna silently walking together. Michael thinks “what a beautiful evening, stars, moon, and….. Anna. She is what make really things special. Why are we just walking without saying a word?” she is scrolling on the phone, he takes her hand, Anna: “Michael….. you always make me smile!” he kiss her, A: “I love you Michael” M: “I love you too, Anna”.
Dad is at the computer with his baby. Dad: “oh, new data are available! do you want to take a look at it? I do” they look at the computer with a plot in python that seem random noise. Dad: “…ok, here we go!… maybe let’s look at it it in another way….” the new plot is still noisy but there is some structure. The baby thinks it is “spiky”, dad: “ok, we start to see the main peak…. however still too–” baby:” too spiky to walk!” dad: “ehehe, yes, let’s average it” the new plot is much smoother, baby “Now it has a big nose!” dad: “now is better is’t it?” baby: “hehehe! can we make other shapes?” dad: “we are not making shapes, we find them. It is like eyeglasses, or lenses, we can better see the object, but we don’ change it”
young Anna is ready for her date! she is excited: “perfetto! con questa nuova collana che ho comprato, posso andare. Non vedo l’ora di vederlo!! ok ora di andare. Arrivo Mike!” “questa collana la ho comprata nuova (e non costava neanche poco) per farmi bella per lui. Spero che gli piaccia”, waiting outside for him, she realize she is early, so she try not to make people notice her: “sono arrivata un po in anticipo… aspettero’… qui c’e’ gente che passa ogni tanto. Faro finta di niente ‘non sto aspettando qualcuno con impazienza’ non voglio gossip…” she plays with her new necklace: “non ho dormito tutta la notte. Ah, l’amore…. chi lo ha inventato?” she could not sleep all night, and wonders who invented love, referring to her love for him that kept her awake.
10 years later: she is happily married. At night she tries to put to sleep her newborn who is constantly crying keeping them awake: A:” ugh, come si addormentano i bambini?”, in the morning, her older daughter Elisabeth should go to school: E:”Mom, can you do my homework?” Anna: “of course, don’t worry. Now go or you’ll be late”, at school Elisabeth giggle with her friend. When mom come to take her home, Elisabeth complains: “ugh I feel awful. I think I caught a cold” Anna: “oh, no. hope soon you feel better”, Anna is tired, she did not sleep all night, now she has to face a sick child, she thinks: “accidenti, ci mancava anche questo…. non ho dormito tutta la notte che la piccola piangeva…. L’amore, chi lo ha inventato?” tis time she refers to love and so babies.
& years later: she has 3 kids. And more worries. She try to sleep, but the thought of her older daughter’s upcoming date is keeping her awake: “domani elisabeth ha appuntamento col suo ragazzo… chissa come sara questo ragazzo.. chissa se sara all’altezza di lei…..”, The following day, Elisabeth is preparing herself for the date. “la, la, la! perfect! with mom’s necklace I’m ready. I’m excited! can’t wait!!! my sweetheart, he is just different, he has the courage to stand up for what’s right. Just wonderful. Time to go!! Marty, I’m coming!!” both the girls now are getting out, E:”I get out, see you later” younger daughter:”me too! I wanna feed the black cat!”….. Anna is exausted, she just sits in the couch with her newborn “La grande si e’ presa la mia collana per farsi bella, anche l’altra va in giro… a dare da mangiare ai gatti” and keep wondering about love: “e non ho dormito tutta la notte… ah, l’amore, chi lo ha inventato?” this time she refers to her daughter being in love.
Opera singer sings, Ely and Isa enjoy the show, being both super passionate about music. Katy is bored and half asleep. Sakura is deep asleep. Ely thinks”usually I do not go to these kind of concerts, but this one is really good!” Ely says to her friends: “stop sleeping” K: “what a bore….”, at the end, the opera singer bows and thanks her audience: “Thank you!”, Audience: “bravo!” Isa and Ely: “Brava, brava!”, Katy: “have it finally finished?” Sakura: “Finally!”
3 girls discussing their grades, Katy is black, Ely is white, Sakura comes from Japan. Katy “Grr, Stupid school!” “Ely what did you got?!” Ely: “I got straight A, why?” K: “because I got C, I can’t believe! I’m pretty sure I did mostly correct, grrr” E: “ok, let’s calm down and compare the anwswers” K: “ok”……….K: “see?!? same answers! this is not fair!” E: “yeah basically the same…” Ely looks once more confused Katy C Elizabeth A+ “mhhh……..” Katy: “it’s all about skin color!” Ely thinks: “it cannot possibly be. There are rules”……. E: “come on, racism is not just about color, also eye shape! Sakura what did you get?” Sakura: “B” “I was surprised, I could not understand the questions” Ely is even more puzzled: Sakura B, Katy C, Elizabeth A+ “eek?” S:”it is not my fault! the questions were written in a confusing way!” “You try to answer math questions in Japanese!” K: “still you got a better grade!” E: “this is not fair at all!” K:”does not matter (how much I could read) I’ll always get bad grades!”
