Dear All — Last day, or so we thought. I’d planned to send the pictures attached this morning, once the students had all left the villa. They are (photo 1) of our meeting with the city administrator, Ms. Battistina Vargiu, and the city architect, Roberto...
Amici mio — Today was the last day of class. Students woke to yet another gray sky, this after a beautiful weekend. So far it’s rained every day we have been here save for one, Saturday. Of course it’s been a bit of a disappointment after all the...
Buongiorno! All right, maybe I’m fudging a little by sending two days of photos at once. But because the students were all out of town — either in Rome or, get this, out on Capri — I really didn’t have any photos of them available. Instead, here are a...
Salvé! It isn’t all fun and play for the students around here, you know. The faculty gets to participate as well. We had our cooking classes, and enjoyed a menu of melanzane involtini, ravioli con patate e parmegiano, and good ol’ guinea fowl stew. Photo 1...
Buongiorno — Guess what? A beautiful day! A glimpse of the quotidian, and the sublime: Lunch happens between noon and one, after my travel writing class and before Tony’s fiction class. The students usually make their ways to a few select little cafés...