Last Thursday was Thanksgiving. Of course, nobody in Italy, even Americans, celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday because everyone works. So Natalie and I got in touch with Giulio, and he offered us his guesthouse kitchen to cook Thanksgiving dinner in. We invited all the usual friends. …who, with two exceptions, all said they’d be delighted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘friends’
Thanksgiving
Posted in photographic, regular, year 2, tagged friends, holiday, Thanksgiving on Monday 8 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
she lives, maybe
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged apartment, friends, work on Wednesday 8 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it’s been a while. But I have plenty of good excuses! We’ve only JUST managed to get internet in our apartment, which means no more trucking to the internet cafè, and plus, we were in a pretty sticky situation for a while regarding our apartment contract, and Natalie’s not having a legitimate <i>codice fiscale</i>, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
the shadow knows…
Posted in humorous, regular, winter, year 1, tagged friends, goodbyes, roommates, students, teaching, work on Thursday 21 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The title has absolutely nothing to do with anything I’m about to write about, but Julia’s listening to a 1938 recording of “The Shadow,” so it seemed like as good a beginning as any. My newest student, Franca, lands in the older percentile of my students, but makes up for it in enthusiasm and energy [...]
festeggiando
Posted in photographic, regular, winter, year 1, tagged birthday, Carnevale, costumes, friends, goodbyes, parties, work on Wednesday 6 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I had to teach for 8 hours–from 9:00-1:15, and then from 6:30-10:30. Four of those hours consisted of two one-on-one students. Just going to throw this out there–doing a private language lesson for two full hours only once a week is a bit silly. Two hours is a LONG time for the teacher to [...]
