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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘parties’
raining
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged basil plant, friends, graduation, parties, rain on Sunday 8 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
the gist
Posted in descriptive, regular, winter, year 1, tagged big decision, Bologna, Campania, food, friends, Herculaneum, Mom, Napoli, New Year's, parties, pasta, snow, trips, visits on Monday 28 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my English classes we do this thing called “reading for gist,” which is where you’re not supposed to read every word for detail but instead read the entire article quickly to get a sense of the thing. (Incidentally, my students hate this.) This is going to be “gist writing,” because I have exactly 20 [...]
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 [...]
