It went well! My fears turned out to be groundless. Ironically, I hadn’t been as scared of teaching before I took the TEFL course. I had figured it would be like acting—just get up there and perform. Then my first teaching practice at TEFL happened. I got up in front of a classroom of three [...]
Posts Tagged ‘firsts’
the first class
Posted in autumn, reflective, regular, year 1, tagged firsts, Greece, students, teaching, work on Tuesday 16 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
on basil plants, children, and homeless dogs
Posted in autumn, reflective, regular, year 1, tagged apartment, basil plant, Bologna, children, firsts, homeless, puppies, roommates on Tuesday 2 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another landmark—we have officially kept our basil plant alive for one whole month. Not just alive, but thriving. His name is Lucius. Not quite as nice as a cat, but he’ll do. In other news, Emily has returned to us from Florence and we’ve moved into our new apartment! It’s lovely—spacious and airy, with lots [...]
not homeless!
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged apartment, firsts, joy, work on Saturday 22 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Everything has continued to fall together in a pleasing sort of way this last week. Julia has now taught three lessons. I went to my first job meeting sort of thing. I met with Grazia (I think that’s her name?), one of the two people who run it. She speaks very rapid Italian, and it [...]
in bocca al lupo
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged coincidence, firsts, job-hunting, joy, work on Friday 14 September, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So, the big news. I have a job! Today was that interview that I mentioned before, the one set up by the woman who called me on the train. I did a little googling online and found out that the school is called Circolo Leonardo, and has lots of different types of classes, including art [...]
amici!
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged firsts, friends, joy, parties on Monday 3 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last time I was living in Italy, it took me (and this was true for the majority of the others I believe) about 4-5 months to start actually making friends with Italians and having an integrated social life. This isn’t because Italians are particularly unfriendly—to the contrary, as a population they’re one of the friendliest [...]
allora…
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged exploring, firsts on Friday 31 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are alive…! So far, everything has been going quite well. We found our apartment without too much difficulty. The proprietress is molto simpatica, the location is excellent (across the streets and two blocks away from the train staion), and the apartment itself is small but absolutely lovely, with wooden floors, lots of windows (which [...]
