Don't ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word 'giorno' - day, is a 'male' word, whereas the word for week - 'settimana' is … [Read more...]
Chaos in Part of Milan this Morning
When I got to the business school in the Fiera area of Milan this morning, at around 9, I found just about all the classrooms deserted. Oops, I've arrived far too early, I thought. I … [Read more...]
Confetti, canival, and children
It's that time of year again. A time of children, and adults, in costume, and streets paved in small fragments of coloured paper. A time of processions and street fairs. Of cars covered … [Read more...]
Sarkozy likes the BBC, possibly!
UPDATE: 14.01.08 - Having now read more of the articles in Il Sole, I can now understand why the paper used the headline saying that 'State TV without advertising would not work'. The … [Read more...]
Cv’s, Resumes: mug shot or not, that is the question
Many of my students at the business school where ply my language teaching trade are going through the traumatic 'looking for an internship' phase at the moment and one of my charges raised … [Read more...]