Despite what you might have expected, we DID celebrate Thanksgiving despite being in Italy, and in fact it was probably the best Thanksgiving I’ve celebrated since I stopped going home (except maybe for that Russian House dinner). Preparation began a week in advance–Julia and I made at least three trips to the markets in [...]
Archive for November, 2007
festa di ringraziamento
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged food, friends, holiday, roommates, students, teaching children, Thanksgiving on Sunday 25 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
aneurysms, anyone?
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged frustration, language, random, TEFL, work on Tuesday 20 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching your own language in another language in which you’re only just becoming fluent is a really good way to make your brain explode. It helps if they can’t grasp that the possessive ’s goes on the possessor, not the possessed. End.
miscellany (what else?)
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, chocolate, Chocolate Festival, Christmas, cold, friends, hot chocolate, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Monday 19 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 12:53 am; I teach at 9:00 am tomorrow (today?) and thus have to get up at 7:30; I should be in bed. Unfortunately teaching until 10:30 pm leaves me wide awake for a good couple of hours (I think the double espresso taken at 8:30 in order to make possible has something to [...]
The Rangdum Gompa Video
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged Buddhist monks, translating, video on Thursday 15 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, I almost forgot–I received a copy of the video that I translated the voiceover for. It’s about Buddhist monks living in an isolated community in the Himalayas who opened a school for the local children. It’s a lovely video and a good cause, if you’re looking for your charity of the year.
(Note–while [...]
laryngitis, 50-year-olds who are 10, intensifying adverbs
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged friends, irritating, language, laryngitis, roommates, students, teaching, TEFL on Thursday 15 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Really, the fact that I haven’t posted on my blog in a long time is a good thing. It means that nothing hilariously (or non-hilariously) disastrous has happened.
And it’s true; the last couple of weeks have been fairly normal, whatever that means. It was sunny and warm again briefly, which means that we [...]
non-post
Posted in autumn, photographic, year 1, tagged roommates, San Luca on Monday 5 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
LOTS of photos up on Tabblo:
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/view/tabblos/acmurray/
None of our walk to San Luca yet, but for now I leave you with this image:
new adventures, new internet, new roommate
Posted in autumn, descriptive, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, holiday, portici, roommates, San Luca on Saturday 3 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a largely successful weekend…and it’s not even over, which is the best part. Thursday was All Saint’s Day, which is a strictly observed holiday in Italy–well, at least the non-working part is if not the religious traditions attached. So seeing as it was a brilliantly sunny day after a week [...]
photos!
Posted in autumn, photographic, year 1, tagged Bologna on Saturday 3 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pictures, finally:
… See my Tabblo>
They’re only of Bologna, however. Pictures of us having fun come later.
