Two days ago, it was oppressively hot and humid here in Bologna; I wanted to die. Today it is downright chilly. I would be celebrating, except all of our warm clothes are in Riccardo’s basement. Blast.
Archive for September, 2008
the fickleness of Bolognese weather
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged weather on Monday 15 September, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Great Apartment Hunt
Posted in descriptive, humorous, regular, year 2, tagged apartment, apartment-hunting on Saturday 13 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Warning: this was five single-spaced pages in Microsoft Word)
The last few days of apartment hunting have been at once so surreal, nerve-wracking, hilarious, and dismaying that I don’t even know where to start. I suppose I’ll start with our first real failed attempt…
The One with the Guy from Kosovo
I’ll admit that this one was tainted [...]
less stressed
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged apartment-hunting on Thursday 4 September, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We just lost the apartment we originally made a proposal for, but we’re rather glad we did. We saw another apartment this afternoon that is FANTASTIC, and if we don’t see anything we like better tomorrow we will make a proposal there. Will not describe it because have fingers crossed too hard.
So we’re still homeless, [...]
still homeless, and soon to be penniless
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged apartment-hunting, homelessness, stress on Wednesday 3 September, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So we found an apartment, but two problems:
a) The proprietaria hasn’t accepted our proposal yet – and it’s been a whole day. We’re beginning to think that she’s reluctant to accept foreigners, being transient and unlikely to stay for more than a year. And, let’s face it, there’s a certain amount of wariness for foreigners [...]
