I started a really nice post a few days ago, but unfortunately Blogger.com decided it wasn’t worth saving, even though I clicked “Salva adesso” (Save Now). So since I had to teach at 8 am this morning (Read: 6:30 am wake-up time! Is learning English REALLY that urgent to anyone?!?), this post will be an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture shock’
ciaociao culture shock
Posted in reflective, winter, year 1, tagged culture shock, knitting on Wednesday 5 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
sette belle cose
Posted in autumn, reflective, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, coffee, culture shock, food, gelato, Italian idiosyncracies, l'aperitivo, pizza, random, towers, wine on Monday 22 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Living in Italy is a little different from studying abroad in Italy, and sometimes it’s easy to forget why I came back. Taking the bus from work to my home in a pretty but relatively normal residential area, one that could easily be found in Cambridge or Bethesda, is a little less romantic than clattering [...]
eek
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged culture shock, roommates, students, work on Monday 15 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I begin work tonight for real—at the school, with the Level 4 Intermediate Class. Am petrified. And not at all convinced that teaching is my life’s calling. Or even my calling beyond April. Emily just went off to (finally) talk to her boss about regulating a contract and chirped as she went, “Bye everyone, I’ll [...]
blah
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged culture shock, discouraging, frustration, irritating on Tuesday 9 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is hard.
the stress builds
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged apartment-hunting, culture shock, job-hunting, stress on Wednesday 12 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
All right. Culture shock has officially set in. I know what it is; I know that it’s essentially equivalent to a psychological cold and will pass. But it still manages to make life difficult in the meantime, making even the easiest of tasks seem insurmountable. It feels like the entire Italian system is working against [...]
