Travelogue – Part 2
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
I arrived in Bologna on Friday and Paolo, the 60ish orthodontist, met me at the airport. It was nice of him to meet me and I went with him to do some errands while we waited for Luca from the school to be free. We went to someplace, a friend of a friend, to pick […]
Travelogue – Part 2
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Excellent Adventure – Part 1
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Well, this is going to be a travelogue post. After all of the time for preparation I was SO antsy to leave. I’d checked and rechecked everything, covered every contingency and all systems were go. I dropped off my car at the storage place and got a ride with suitcases and laptop bag to the […]
Excellent Adventure – Part 1
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The Alligator
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Some time back a fellow student at Italingua in Berkeley loaned me a book by Massimo Carlotto. The title was “ Il Corriere Columbiano†and it was in Italian. You can buy the book in translation, as well as some of his others on Amazon and presumably in some bookstores. However he is not well […]
The Alligator
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Italy Bound
Monday, August 15th, 2011
In a recent post I talked a bit about studying Italian in Italy. There are the obvious advantages of being in a place where everyone is speaking Italian. It is that prod that is needed to get past the embarrassment of speaking like a 3 year old when in fact you are a well educated […]
Italy Bound
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