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Time to Leave: Reflections on the Adventures of Two English Tutors in Italy
Time to Leave: Reflections on the Adventures of Two English Tutors in Italy It feels sad to us to be leaving San Lorenzo al Mare. Italians are a very generous and gracious people. If you live among them for a month or longer, you become part of the community. They are...
Our Excursions in Italy
Our Excursions in Italy We’ve had three weekends here in Italy to do a bit of exploring. Out first trip focused around a business meeting that Roy had in Torino, the second was a visit with our Italian family in the Genova area and, the third trip was to the Asti...
The Valle del San Lorenzo
Where are we? The Valle del San Lorenzo The Valle del San Lorenzo extends up the mountain, through the villages of COSTARAINERA, and CIPRESSA to the northern hamlet of LINGUEGLIETTA. Let me tell you a little bit about San Lorenzo al Mare, and the surrounding area...
Reflections on our first week Tutoring English in Italy
Our First Week Challenges: 1- Driving to School Each Day: I think the biggest challenge for me this week was my anxiety about getting to my school each day. Cipressa is a tiny town north of San Lorenza al Mare and straight up the mountain. My first concern was seeing...
Schools and Schedules!
Schools and Schedules! Now that you’ve gotten some insight into how we happened upon this experience and you’ve seen our apartment, you might be wondering what we do all day? When we left Connecticut, we knew that we would be tutoring English in middle and elementary...
Our Apartment!
Living in an Old Italian village like San Lorenzo can offer some very interesting apartment designs. Rather than taking down buildings to build new structures, existing structures are slightly renovated to create an apartment with all of the necessary living space...
The Adventures of Two English Language Tutors in Italy
Here is a picture of some of the local sights close to were we are staying. This picture is Via C. Colombo, San Lorenzo al Mare, Italy. A street near our apartment. Welcome to our first blog! Many family and friends, who knew about this trip, have written to us...