Now I should talk about Christmas at the Via Varthema 21 household, but one part of the Christmas story deserves an entire entry to itself.
Namely, the dinner. And not the mashed potatoes or salad part.
Julia and I don’t often eat meat at home, partially because it’s expensive and partially because Emily is a vegetarian [...]
Archive for December, 2007
the great duck epic
Posted in humorous, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged carnage, Christmas, duck, food on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Slovenija!
Posted in descriptive, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, cold, food, Ljubljana, roommates, Slovenia, snow, students, TEFL, trips, work on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a lot to catch up on in these past few frenetic weeks, beginning with our weekend trip to Slovenia!
Julia and I finished work on Thursday the 20th. The last week of teaching was nice–most of my classes had tests, and instead of normal lessons I had them do Christmas-themed word finds, [...]
hmmm
Posted in photographic, regular, winter, year 1, tagged irritation, knitting, random, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Thursday 13 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bad:
- Teaching defining and non-defining relative clauses to an EFL class, even an advanced one. To the Italian grammatical mind there IS no difference between, “The sailors who had cabins below deck all drowned” and “The sailors, who had cabins below deck, all drowned.” Shoot me in the head.
- Certain EFL textbooks that [...]
albero di natale
Posted in photographic, regular, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, friends on Wednesday 12 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today our (well, Julia’s mainly) friend Elena was kind enough to drive us to the outskirts of the city where we bought….
…a Christmas tree!
A live one, at that! It’s short but respectable–about my height, perhaps even a little taller if you count the single branch that sticks straight up at the end–and handsome. [...]
la vita va
Posted in regular, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, friends, holiday, immaculate conception, knitting, students on Sunday 9 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My roommates are in bed, so I turned on some Christmas carols to keep myself company with. It’s funny; the city is decked out in Christmas decorations and lights, but it still doesn’t feel like mid-December. This will be the first Christmas away from home for all of us–we’re planning lots of fun [...]
ciaociao culture shock
Posted in reflective, winter, year 1, tagged culture shock, knitting on Wednesday 5 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I started a really nice post a few days ago, but unfortunately Blogger.com decided it wasn’t worth saving, even though I clicked “Salva adesso” (Save Now). So since I had to teach at 8 am this morning (Read: 6:30 am wake-up time! Is learning English REALLY that urgent to anyone?!?), this post will [...]
