So I’m not usually a sucker for feel-good YouTube videos and montages – oh wait, that’s a lie, yes I am. In any case, this one makes me a little bit teary. Watch it all the way through even if you think you’ve got the idea after the first thirty seconds or so. It’s really [...]
Posts Tagged ‘random’
absolutely nothing to do with Italy – dancing around the world
Posted in regular, tagged dancing man around the world, heartwarming, random, video on Friday 15 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
phone phobia
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged phobias, random on Wednesday 7 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to make a phone call. I hate making phone calls. Times one hundred if the phone call is in Italian. And it’s a complicated one, too. Argh. For the first post in almost a month it’s a pretty lame one; sorry. But I’m not allowed to write any more until I make the [...]
why can’t I work in a normal school like Julia?
Posted in humorous, regular, spring, year 1, tagged frustration, random, work on Wednesday 12 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[This copied from an email I just wrote to my sister Sarawan, as it happened in the middle of writing an email to her.] Okay, can I take a moment to tell you exactly how crazy my boss is? I just now received a text message from my boss, saying, “Are you coming for 6.30?” [...]
hmmm
Posted in photographic, regular, winter, year 1, tagged irritation, knitting, random, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Thursday 13 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bad: – Teaching defining and non-defining relative clauses to an EFL class, even an advanced one. To the Italian grammatical mind there IS no difference between, “The sailors who had cabins below deck all drowned” and “The sailors, who had cabins below deck, all drowned.” Shoot me in the head. – Certain EFL textbooks that [...]
aneurysms, anyone?
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged frustration, language, random, TEFL, work on Tuesday 20 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching your own language in another language in which you’re only just becoming fluent is a really good way to make your brain explode. It helps if they can’t grasp that the possessive ‘s goes on the possessor, not the possessed. End.
sette belle cose
Posted in autumn, reflective, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, coffee, culture shock, food, gelato, Italian idiosyncracies, l'aperitivo, pizza, random, towers, wine on Monday 22 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Living in Italy is a little different from studying abroad in Italy, and sometimes it’s easy to forget why I came back. Taking the bus from work to my home in a pretty but relatively normal residential area, one that could easily be found in Cambridge or Bethesda, is a little less romantic than clattering [...]
fun with hard tack
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged food, random on Friday 28 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And speaking of food, we’ve been feeling a bit poor since Jess’ and Sean’s visit. On the one hand, we were thrilled to have an excuse to splurge, on the other hand, splurge we did and we have to pay up €412 each to Signora Cavalli in a few days time. Given this, Julia and [...]
