August 2010
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July 2009
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Home Sweet Home
After a very long and boring transatlantic flight, and a few days with my lovely boyfriend, I’m back home just in time for a good ol’ American independence day.
Tomorrow I will be spending the day with my little brother (who had a growth spurt and is now taller than me, at the age of 12) and my stepfather. We’ll be going to a friend’s house and watching fireworks and...
June 2009
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WatchWe saw an adorable puppy in the Gelateria. I had a wonderful last night in Milan, thanks to all of my friends.
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Less than one week!
I returned safely from Bulgaria yesterday, and I’ve already started packing up for the states. I leave June 30th, with mixed feelings.
Of course at this point I’m anxious to get home, see my friends, see my boyfriend, get American pizza…but unlike last semester, I don’t have the comfort of knowing when I will return to Italy.
Of course I’ll be back! But who knows...
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Non Dimenticare Italiano!
Today I said goodbye to the family that I have been babysitting for this semester. They gave me organic soap from France and wished me well.
Both Sharon and Ximena teared up as they hugged me goodbye, but little Ariel had no idea what “I’m leaving forever,” means. He told me he loved me as I was leaving then said, “Now is Paolo coming?” Haha so easily replaced!...
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I get to see these guys in concert on the 24th in...
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WatchI love the market so very much. Afterwards, Tamara made her nonna’s special pasta recipe with the shrimp….mmm
WatchYes, they did. THEY DID.
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Il Fabbricante dei Sogni/ Modena City Ramblers
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L'antropologia Culturale
30 e lode (for non-italians, that’s the highest grade with honors).
:)
Now, if I can hope to do just as well for History!
“America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however,...”
– President Obama in Cairo (via ntkg) (via think4yourself)
I voted for this man. It was the first vote I could cast in any US election. This man is an inspiration and will continue to be for years to come….these are the types of things that are recorded in history books. And I voted for him. :)
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Non è la Rai: Italy's Cult of the Bimbo →
emmanuelnegro:
“The model being thrust at women by TV probably reached its apotheosis during the 1990s with a cult show called Non è La Rai,” wrote Martin Penner in the Daily Telegraph earlier this year, summarizing the genre nicely. “The concept, like all winning ideas, was daringly simple: get about 100 adolescent girls wearing relatively short skirts into a studio. That was it. […]
No one...
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May 2009
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Pro-Crazy is not Pro-Life →
My thoughts go out to the family of Dr. George Tiller.
What’s really disgusting is how many people are commenting “Well, he killed babies so he got what he deserved,” on the news articles. I thought you Christians were supposed to let your God do the judging?
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Lost in Translation?
I’m reading Poetry by “primitive” cultures that’s been transcribed and translated into Italian. I feel like somehow I’m not getting the “entire” picture here, but I’m just going to press on.
The proverbs I *do* get, though. It’s amazing how wisdom shines through in another language, even if you’re not fluent.
“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...”
– Michael Jay Tucker (via coitusandcopouts) (via atheistramblings)
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Gli Esami
Days til Anthro exam: 13
Days til History exam: 23
I have 3 books to read for History. It’s not just that they’re in Italian, they’re in really really hard to read Italian. With footnotes as long as the pages!! (Do I have to read them??)
Why did I do this to myself again?
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WatchI was minding my own business while going to meet a friend for lunch at school and stumbled upon this ritual. I asked someone what it was an they replied “The Celebration of our College!” Turns out it’s an all male college. They yelled things and dumped water on boys who stripped down to their undies. Fun!
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Il Banchiere dei Poveri
For my Anthropology class here, I had to read “The Banker of the Poor” by Muhammad Yunus. Even in another language, this book touched me. Yunus created the Grameen Bank to establish Micro Credit programs for the poor, all because he couldn’t stand teaching wonderful theories of Economics in a classroom while having to walk through the slums to go to work.
If only we all had a...
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