Ablative, Allative, Adessive, Obsessive

I just found out that I got the scholarship/intership thing to teach English in Italy this fall! I will be somewhere (they haven't told me where exactly - I'll be getting a letter from the school that I'll be based out of once I confirm that I still want to do this) in Lombardy. I was worried that I wouldn't get it after the trouble I had with ( Read more... )

Well, I've graduated! No more college for me. Graduation weekend was wonderful - I'm glad we have a weekend of events rather than being just tossed into a long commencement ceremony that you can't wait to get out of. On Saturday was the Laurel Parade. All the seniors dress in white and carry a chain of laurel to the grave of the college's ( Read more... )

I couldn't find the "Stampare" button in Word this morning when trying to print my paper. I got really confused for a few seconds before realising there was an obvious reason for this. The word is Print in English.

I'm at MHC, but I left my laptop at home (genius, I know). If you need to talk to me, call my cell phone since I also don't have a campus phone at the moment. At least the Abbey computer room's computers are good.

RenFair with Stephanie (not me, another one) today!

I love knowing other languages, even knowing a little bit of one opens so much of the world for you.

I went to Perugia and Assisi this weekend. Perugia was a great city (with underground escalators through the old -Roman, I think- city since the town is built around a hill with the roads winding around it making direct walking from the bottom to the top difficult without the escalators). I wouldn't mind living in Perugia, the surrounding area ( ( Read more... )

I updated my pictures with most of the ones I took over spring break. I still have more to put up, but that's enough for today.

A bit of a longer update today. As I said in the last update Spring Break with Susan in Puglia, the heel of the boot, and a bit of Basilicata was very good (except for Bari, which was terrible, but only half a day). The south of Italy is beautiful and different from the north. People are very friendly and go out of their way to help you, but are ( Read more... )