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 [...]
Archive for the ‘summer’ Category
la vita estiva
Posted in reflective, summer, year 1, tagged beach, culture, Italian idiosyncracies, summer on Wednesday 13 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 or [...]
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 overrun by [...]
seeking WHAT?
Posted in humorous, summer, year 1, tagged job-hunting, the absurd on Thursday 31 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I promise I have SEVERAL updates waiting in the wings to be transliterated from paper to screen, but for now I feel compelled to share a couple choice ads from the “Jobs” section of the Craigslist Rome: ——– Cercasi Musa (internet) (translation: Seeking Muse) why not help a poet while helping society as well? do [...]
all my students go on vacation
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged goodbyes, students on Thursday 24 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight was my last lesson with two of my students. It’s sad saying goodbye to all these great students who probably would continue with me next year if I were staying. But I will find good students everywhere…including Rome.
too much food and more separation anxiety
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged food, friends, goodbyes on Sunday 20 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been an exhausting couple of days lately–also a filling couple of days, for some reason I found myself repeatedly in restaurants eating far too much food. Julia’s leaving was pretty devastating, as you can read below, but I was distracted from brooding over it by being nervous about going to dinner with Riccardo that [...]
Julia
Posted in photographic, reflective, summer, year 1, tagged friends, goodbyes, roommates on Wednesday 16 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So Julia leaves today. All the good-bye festivities were lovely–she and Natalie and I had dinner at an excellent restaurant where they stuff you with food until you’re sick. Then last night Giulio had an goodbye party for her at his house that was meant to recreate the first evening we met them. He made [...]
summer in Bologna
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged Dad, Ferrara, friends, graduation, summer on Monday 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From: charlesamurray@comcast.net Subject: not a whole lot of blogging recently. Date: July 2, 2008 To: anna.cox.murray@gmail.com Yours, Disgruntled —– With that kind of fatherly encouragement, I thought I’d include an update or two… PAST – Natalie has arrived! She arrived in one piece last Wednesday, and has already taught her first lesson, to her relief. [...]
not about Italy
Posted in reflective, summer, year 1, tagged culture, Iran, people, politics on Thursday 12 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Across the street from where I work there is a bar that I frequent for emergency caffeine boosts. The same barista is always there, from 8 am until 7:30 pm. He’s Iranian, though he hasn’t been back in 30 years, and his favorite topics are a) how wonderful Iran is, and b) how the current [...]
raining
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged basil plant, friends, graduation, parties, rain on Sunday 8 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 11 am on a Sunday morning, and it’s raining. Even though everyone is pretty sick of the rain, after 2+ weeks of nothing but, this morning’s rain is rather pleasant. Maybe it’s just having grown up in a farming area prone to draughts, but hearing this kind of rain–steady and soaking, but not pounding [...]
