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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘roommates’
Julia
Posted in photographic, reflective, summer, year 1, tagged friends, goodbyes, roommates on Wednesday 16 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Slovenija!
Posted in descriptive, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, cold, food, Ljubljana, roommates, Slovenia, snow, students, TEFL, trips, work on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a lot to catch up on in these past few frenetic weeks, beginning with our weekend trip to Slovenia! Julia and I finished work on Thursday the 20th. The last week of teaching was nice–most of my classes had tests, and instead of normal lessons I had them do Christmas-themed word finds, [...]
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 [...]
festa di ringraziamento
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged food, friends, holiday, roommates, students, teaching children, Thanksgiving on Sunday 25 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Despite what you might have expected, we DID celebrate Thanksgiving despite being in Italy, and in fact it was probably the best Thanksgiving I’ve celebrated since I stopped going home (except maybe for that Russian House dinner). Preparation began a week in advance–Julia and I made at least three trips to the markets in the [...]
miscellany (what else?)
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, chocolate, Chocolate Festival, Christmas, cold, friends, hot chocolate, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Monday 19 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 12:53 am; I teach at 9:00 am tomorrow (today?) and thus have to get up at 7:30; I should be in bed. Unfortunately teaching until 10:30 pm leaves me wide awake for a good couple of hours (I think the double espresso taken at 8:30 in order to make possible has something to do [...]
laryngitis, 50-year-olds who are 10, intensifying adverbs
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged friends, irritating, language, laryngitis, roommates, students, teaching, TEFL on Thursday 15 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Really, the fact that I haven’t posted on my blog in a long time is a good thing. It means that nothing hilariously (or non-hilariously) disastrous has happened. And it’s true; the last couple of weeks have been fairly normal, whatever that means. It was sunny and warm again briefly, which means that we spent [...]
non-post
Posted in autumn, photographic, year 1, tagged roommates, San Luca on Monday 5 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
LOTS of photos up on Tabblo: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/view/tabblos/acmurray/ None of our walk to San Luca yet, but for now I leave you with this image:
new adventures, new internet, new roommate
Posted in autumn, descriptive, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, holiday, portici, roommates, San Luca on Saturday 3 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a largely successful weekend…and it’s not even over, which is the best part. Thursday was All Saint’s Day, which is a strictly observed holiday in Italy–well, at least the non-working part is if not the religious traditions attached. So seeing as it was a brilliantly sunny day after a week of rain [...]
