My friend and student, Gaetano Salvo, showed me an article in one of Milan’s free newspapers, City, about an innovative charity organisation run by one Andrea Sergrè, who happens to be the head of the agriculture faculty at one of world’s oldest universities, the University of Bologna.
This is a question I have put to myself on the odd occasion. The odd occasion that provoked this question once again was that of
Awkward things newspapers. The full size versions that are still here and there are so huge and ungainly that you risk punching someone in the
I’m sort of toying with the idea of recording a few .mp3 bits and bobs for my Englishisin web site, so the other day, I
I almost love some scam emails. If they weren’t such a pest, they would make me laugh. The title of this post refers to one
Someone, I won’t say who, asked if I had any unpublished stories kicking around. This person wants to translate a story for a translation competition.
We recently had an air conditioning system put in to help us survive the heat which hits Milan in the summer months, and in a round about sort of way, this got me thinking about a solution, in part, to water shortage in the world. Then there is the bleak prospect of water wars.
One of my students; and I deal with the less advanced levels; managed to land what could well be the job of this person’s dreams.
While waiting for some students the other day I noticed an Italian golfing magazine lying around, so I picked it up and flicked through. I’m not
