(This entry intially titled, “Words that warm a neophyte teacher’s heart”)
Today I was nearly nodding off at the end of my 3:30 lesson, so just before my 4:30 lesson started I asked my student if we could start a couple minutes late so I could dash across the street for a cup (read: shot) of [...]
Archive for May, 2008
purring then fuming
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged frustration, irritating, Italian idiosyncracies, students, teaching, work on Monday 26 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
update about now
Posted in spring, year 1, tagged friends, roommates, students, teaching on Sunday 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, now having said everything that I have neglected to say in the past month, for the moment I’m doing really, really well. It’s warm here now–getting muggy, and it’s apparently monsoon season because we get spontaneous violent rain every so often, but all in all, life is good. I’ve managed to fill [...]
come si dice CHEAT
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged cheating, irritating, Italian idiosyncracies, students, teaching, work on Sunday 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, the first thing you should know about cheating in Italy is that there is no real word for it, at least not in the academic sense. There’s a word for plagiarism, and for romantic infidelity, but not for the kind that you do on tests. The only word the Italians use is [...]
the end of April:
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged Dad, home, joy, students, teaching, TEFL, visits, wedding, work on Sunday 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything real here. A month, in fact. April ended thusly:
- I went home for Birdy’s wedding about a month ago. The wedding itself was absolutely lovely: the weather were perfect, Jeff and Kathryn were adorable, the reception was fun, and watching my best friend get [...]
si mangia bene
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, website on Monday 12 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember back when I said that I wanted to make a separate blog in which we would post a monthly recipe that worked well for us? Well, I’ve finally done it, but not on a monthly basis, just whenever I remember. There are only three recipes there now, but there will be more [...]
happy!
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged joy, random on Saturday 10 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While sitting at a bus stop, I was searching for my cell phone and found 45 euros! This is in a bag that I had used extensively in Italy, then left at home for a year or two, then had taken with me back from America after my visit there, so I was positive [...]
phone phobia
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged phobias, random on Wednesday 7 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to make a phone call. I hate making phone calls. Times one hundred if the phone call is in Italian. And it’s a complicated one, too. Argh.
For the first post in almost a month it’s a pretty lame one; sorry. But I’m not allowed to write any more [...]
