Category: Language

Well, my language skills improved a lot but I still have difficulty following the dialog in a movie or on a TV show. I have found a significant  change in my progress with the language. Before it seemed that I could always speak Italian better than I could understand it. It made sense to me. […]

Well, not my mother. That would be impossible.  Last weekend I went with my friend and teacher, Claudia, from the school to visit her mother in Mesola. I had exchanged emails with her mother when I was still in California and enjoyed our exchanges. One weekend, some weeks ago, her mother Cinzia came to Bologna […]

I don’t write much about side trips, churches, monuments and such things but decided that the day trip merited a post. Ravenna is famous for byzantine mosaics and I saw a lot of them. Ravenna was the center of byzantine control in Italy starting in 540 and lasted for a couple of hundred years.  During […]

Now that I’ve been back in the U.S. for awhile – in fact over a month. I’ve had a lot of time to try to adjust. From living in a lively beautiful medieval city to – Oakland. I certainly miss Bologna I’ve been thinking about the experience I had and what I would do differently […]