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 ‘visits’
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 »
aaarrghgh
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged politics, students, visits, work on Thursday 17 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sooo what’s new in Italy? 1) Berlusconi won. Again. Not entirely unexpected, but a little disappointing that Italy’s decided to go on chasing its tail instead of finding, I don’t know, a rabbit or a stick to chase instead. 2) Sara and Edward came to visit! A lovely time was had by all, even if [...]
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 [...]
Natalie and Venezia
Posted in descriptive, winter, year 1, tagged food, friends, trips, Veneto, Venice, visits on Monday 7 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So as I mentioned before, one of the reasons we stayed in Italy for Christmas was because Emily’s and my good friend Natalie was coming to visit us on the 26th! She was to fly into Venice and spend a couple days there with us before coming down to spend the rest of her visit [...]
visitors!
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, Ferrara, friends, students, visits on Monday 24 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jessie and Sean are visiting—today they’re in Venice, so it’s quiet around here for the day. It’s been lots of fun so far; ever since our Bolognesi friends went MIA, Julia and I have had only each other for company, and even we eventually run out of things to say. Jess and Sean liven things [...]
