Archive for 'Culture'
Citizen/ship Posted by Bridgette on Jul 16, 2019
Ciao a tutti! Ho pensato che potrebbe essere una buon’idea di presentarmi un po’, cosi tutti possono conoscermi meglio. La mia nazionalità è americana. Sono nata e cresciuta a Rochester, nello Stato di New York, città in cui fino a poco fa ho fatto la maestra di francese. Ho lasciato il mio posto un mese…
Tu Vuò Fà l’Apericano? Posted by Bridgette on Jul 9, 2019
Ciao a tutti! Per cominciare: un’introduzione. Mi chiamo Bridgette, I am the new Italian blogger for Transparent Language! Piacere! To begin, I would like to write about my recent trip to Verona, Veneto; La citta dell’amore e l’aperitivo. You may have heard of Verona, as it is the setting of the Shakespeare love story Romeo…
Let’s Dance! Posted by Serena on May 23, 2019
I’ve always been fascinated by southern Italian folk dancing, so when the opportunity to learn a few steps presented itself I went for it! Una sera d’estate di qualche anno fa avevo visto ballare la pizzica e altre danze tradizionali del Sud Italia qui in piazza a Pontremoli e ne ero rimasta molto affascinata. La…
In Their Own Words Posted by Serena on Mar 21, 2019
As the title suggests, today’s post is not ‘ours’ as such, but has been written by a small selection of the 9 and 10 year old children who worked alongside us in our printing workshop at a local scuola elementare. N.B. Only two of the thirteen children in this class were boys, hence the male…
Back To School – Part 3 Posted by Geoff on Mar 15, 2019
By popular request … we’re back at school again! In my previous post I wrote about the creative workshops that I’ve been doing with la prima e la seconda elementare (elementary classes 1 and 2) in a local scuola elementare (elementary/primary school). Following the theme of il ciclo dell’acqua (the water cycle), we used la…
Back To School – Part 2 Posted by Geoff on Mar 7, 2019
What better place to witness the veracity of the Italian saying ‘tutto il mondo è paese‘ than in a primary school? Tutto il mondo è paese (literally ‘the whole world is a village’) means: wherever you go people are fundamentally the same. The children that I have the privilege of working with in una scuola…
Back To School – Part 1 Posted by Geoff on Mar 5, 2019
If someone had told me, as I joyfully walked out of the school gates for the last time way back in 1974, that I’d one day be teaching creative workshops in a village school in Italy, well I’d probably have thought them crazy! But life, as we all know, is full of many strange twists…