Cold, cruel, homelessness, I tell you.
Archive for August, 2008
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged apartment-hunting, fear, stress on Friday 29 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
one year!!!
Posted in year 2, tagged anniversary, apartment-hunting, buskers, Ferrara, stress on Thursday 28 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I have been in Bologna for exactly one year today. I would write something thoughtful and profound, except I don’t really have the time because I’m staring cold, cruel homelessness in the face on Sunday. (The coldness and cruelty are mitigated by the fact that a couple of friends have offered to take us [...]
foreign
Posted in reflective, year 1, tagged foreign on Sunday 24 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(This isn’t written out of bitterness or resentfulness or even a bad evening; actually, I had a lovely evening. But even pleasant conversations can trigger odd realizations.)
When I was a freshman at Middlebury, I had several international student friends – from Romania, from Greece, from China, from Venezuela. They spoke English fluently, understood everything we [...]
absolutely nothing to do with Italy – dancing around the world
Posted in regular, tagged dancing man around the world, heartwarming, random, video on Friday 15 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I’m not usually a sucker for feel-good YouTube videos and montages – oh wait, that’s a lie, yes I am. In any case, this one makes me a little bit teary. Watch it all the way through even if you think you’ve got the idea after the first thirty seconds or so. It’s really [...]
la vita estiva
Posted in reflective, summer, year 1, tagged beach, culture, Italian idiosyncracies, summer on Wednesday 13 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a people with such a fun-loving reputation, the Italians are very serious about some things – coffee, for instance, and food. As it turns out, they also take their summer holidays – le ferie – very seriously as well.
Although I’ve been in Italy during the summer plenty of times before, this is my first [...]
inauguratory post
Posted in regular, tagged blogging, introduction, language, legal status on Sunday 10 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So this is my first post in the new blogging host. I’m still tinkering with it; you’ll probably see the banner above change at least once. A couple new things – on the side bar you not only have a calendar and archive of posts, but also a tag cloud (I tag each entry with [...]
bitte?
Posted in descriptive, humorous, summer, year 1, tagged Alto-Adige, Bolzano, food, trips on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So you think you know Italy…and then you go to the Alto-Adige.
We had been sitting by the river in Verona, preparing to return to Bologna and paging idly through the Let’s Go guide. One of us noted that the description of Bolzano looked lovely. Then we noted that it was only an hour [...]
In fair Verona…
Posted in descriptive, photographic, summer, year 1, tagged opera, trips, Veneto, Verona on Friday 1 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Natalie and I bought tickets to go see “Carmen” at the Roman arena in Verona. Since the opera runs late, we decided to make a trip of it and spend the night. So off we went to Verona a week ago, and arrived to find a charming little town (albet one that’s [...]
