(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) [...]
Archive for the ‘spring’ Category
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 my schedule [...]
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 “copiare,” to [...]
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 married wasn’t [...]
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 that [...]
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 until I make the [...]
aaarrghgh
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged politics, students, visits, work on Thursday 17 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sooo what’s new in Italy? 1) Berlusconi won. Again. Not entirely unexpected, but a little disappointing that Italy’s decided to go on chasing its tail instead of finding, I don’t know, a rabbit or a stick to chase instead. 2) Sara and Edward came to visit! A lovely time was had by all, even if [...]
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 probably [...]
why can’t I work in a normal school like Julia?
Posted in humorous, regular, spring, year 1, tagged frustration, random, work on Wednesday 12 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[This copied from an email I just wrote to my sister Sarawan, as it happened in the middle of writing an email to her.] Okay, can I take a moment to tell you exactly how crazy my boss is? I just now received a text message from my boss, saying, “Are you coming for 6.30?” [...]
