It’s been a while since I’ve written anything real here. A month, in fact. April ended thusly: – I went home for Birdy’s wedding about a month ago. The wedding itself was absolutely lovely: the weather were perfect, Jeff and Kathryn were adorable, the reception was fun, and watching my best friend get married wasn’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘joy’
the end of April:
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged Dad, home, joy, students, teaching, TEFL, visits, wedding, work on Sunday 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
happy!
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged joy, random on Saturday 10 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While sitting at a bus stop, I was searching for my cell phone and found 45 euros! This is in a bag that I had used extensively in Italy, then left at home for a year or two, then had taken with me back from America after my visit there, so I was positive that [...]
Natale a Bologna
Posted in regular, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, food, friends, joy, Santa Claus on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Still trying to catch up on the backlog of events. So here’s Christmas, apart from the duck. When we initially decided to all spend Christmas here in Bologna, we were a little sad, thinking Christmas couldn’t possibly be the same away from home. So we decided to take steps–we bought a Christmas tree (a real [...]
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 [...]
