For exactly one more week, I will have the privilege of living down the street from the Cicileo. Of all the aspects of my so-called “dolce vita,” this is one thing that is unquestionably picture-perfect. If you were to take a second to imagine living on a narrow little Italian street, complete with green wooden [...]
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Cicileo
Posted in descriptive, year 3 on Wednesday 23 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
two years, and a new apartment!
Posted in descriptive, reflective, regular, year 3, tagged anniversary, apartment, apartment-hunting, existential questions on Friday 4 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of a few days ago – August 28 – I have been in Italy for exactly two years. This time of year in Bologna brings back strong memories. There are both good ones, such as Jess and Sean’s visit after I had just gotten here, and the whole process of discovery that Julia and [...]
on a slightly more sober note
Posted in descriptive, reflective, year 2, tagged research, WWII on Saturday 20 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lately I’ve been occupying myself with research about Bologna just before, during, and just after after World War II. This might seem a little odd, for while I love history, World War II has been significantly out of my interest zone. This interest has grown slowly but steadily over the past couple of years. I [...]
Irish festivities!
Posted in descriptive, regular, year 2, tagged cousinlings, family, Ireland, wedding on Sunday 22 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since I had such fun at my Irish cousin Carol’s wedding about seven years ago in 2002, I’ve been waiting with bated breath for her younger brother Barry to get married so that I could go to the next Irish wedding! This past week on March 17 (yes, I know, an Irish wedding on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
more on Split (belatedly)
Posted in descriptive, spring, year 1, tagged Croatia, Split, trips on Monday 31 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(a belated update that I’ve been meaning to post, copied from my journal)
Yesterday we wandered through the Marjan forest, which is really more of a forested hill on a peninsula, with the sea on either side. It was gorgeously dark and evergreen that brings to mind either Narnia or “Peter and the Wolf,” depending [...]
Hrvatska!
Posted in descriptive, regular, spring, year 1, tagged Croatia, Split, trips on Thursday 27 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nope, my computer keyboard didn’t just hiccup. I didn’t know that “Hrvatska” was the word for Croatia in Croatian either, at least not until last Friday, which is when we went to Croatia.
Yes! We did go after all. We figured that it was a unique opportunity too good to pass up–because Croatia is [...]
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 »
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 [...]
