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.
Posts Tagged ‘goodbyes’
all my students go on vacation
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged goodbyes, students on Thursday 24 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
