User:Ray.Ballisti

Raimondo (Ray) Ballisti: I was born on the 7th of March 1944, during the second world war in the city of Lugano, which is in the southern part of Switzerland. Thus my mother language is Italian. In our school we learned French and High German. In 1964 I entered the compulsory military service and then went to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, which is in the northern part of Switzerland, where a special German dialect is spoken (Switzerdütsch). I got a Master in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and in 1969 I started to work there as an Assistant, having then many functions till my retirement in 2010. I thus speak Italian, French, German and English. I have just some knowledge of Spanish and Japanese, this latter because I am practising IAIDO, which is a Japanese Martial Art which teach how to defend ourselves by a suddenly attack using the Samurai sword (katana). But in reality Iaido is just "applied philosophy". More information about myself can be read on http://www.ballisti.ch/ray