In my English classes we do this thing called “reading for gist,” which is where you’re not supposed to read every word for detail but instead read the entire article quickly to get a sense of the thing. (Incidentally, my students hate this.) This is going to be “gist writing,” because I have [...]
Archive for January, 2008
the gist
Posted in descriptive, regular, winter, year 1, tagged big decision, Bologna, Campania, food, friends, Herculaneum, Mom, Napoli, New Year's, parties, pasta, snow, trips, visits on Monday 28 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Natalie and Venezia
Posted in descriptive, winter, year 1, tagged food, friends, trips, Veneto, Venice, visits on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So as I mentioned before, one of the reasons we stayed in Italy for Christmas was because Emily’s and my good friend Natalie was coming to visit us on the 26th! She was to fly into Venice and spend a couple days there with us before coming down to spend the rest of her [...]
Natale a Bologna
Posted in regular, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, food, friends, joy, Santa Claus on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Still trying to catch up on the backlog of events. So here’s Christmas, apart from the duck.
When we initially decided to all spend Christmas here in Bologna, we were a little sad, thinking Christmas couldn’t possibly be the same away from home. So we decided to take steps–we bought a Christmas tree (a [...]
