Essex Italian

Fashion Tour 2008

My friend Roseanna is leading another one of her famous fashion tours through my old home town of Florence, Italy.  Roseanna's a designer specializing in leather (see her web site at AntonioAnsaldi.com), and a fashion professor at schools in Boston, so she knows exactly what she's doing in Florence, one of the world's capitals of fashion, renown for its leather workshops.

The tour's in March, 2008.  Call (617) 262-4855 or email fashiontouritaly@aol.com.

Life's too short for, "If only I could."  Start telling people now that you're going.

- Linda

Arrivederci

Parto domenica mattina.  Arrivederci.

Tonight 6:30

Ciao, amici.

We're meeting at the Screening Room tonight at 6:30 to see Pan's Labyrinth.  Nothing to do with Italy, but it'll be a goodbye event.  Or better, arrivederci.  Hope to see you there.  Linda

Italian Classes

Monday and Tuesday, Emily White is joining me as I say arrivederci to students in my private lessons.  Emily will continue the lessons beginning next week.  ewhite@sparhawkschool.com

Thursday is my last night at Newburyport Adult Ed., and I'm still looking for a new teacher.  If you're an Italian teacher with permission to work in the States, please contact me as soon as possible at (562) 277-8644.

A presto,

Linda

It doesn't matter if you're a lion or a gazzelle

In the film Cosi e' la vita, Aldo tries to tell this story:  Ogni giorno un leone si sveglia e sa che dovra' correre piu' di una gazzella.  Ogni giorno una gazzella si sveglia e sa che dovra' correre piu' di un leone.  Non importa che tu sia leone o gazzella: comincia a correre. Every day a lion wakes up and knows he has to run faster than a gazzelle.  Every day a gazzelle wakes up and knows he has to run faster than a lion.  It doesn't matter if you're a lion or a gazzelle.  Start running. And then here is the same story in an ad for Gatorade. But, wait.  There's one more video: 

Public Service Announcement for Reading

Il ragazzo is reading I Naufraggi del Chancellor, (The Shipwrecks of the Chancellor). 
And the tag line is Leggere.  Un'avventura del pensiero (Reading.  An adventure of thought).

Italian Teacher Needed Immediately

Newburyport Adult Ed is looking for Italian teachers immediately.  Starting salary is $20/hour. 
Adult students are wonderfully cosmopolitan people taking classes prmarily to enhance their travel experiences.  The school facilities are state-of-the art complete with projectors built into the ceiling for the computer and DVD player.  If you're available, contact Vicki Hendrickson 978-465-1257 or
              vhendrickson@newburyport.k12.ma.us

Arrivederci

I've so enjoyed having this website up, but I'll be closing it down in a couple of weeks as I pursue other opportunities.  Write to me before March 11 to say ciao.

Grazie infinite,

Linda

Italian Film Awards

Donatello created a beautiful sculpture of David, and this Italian film award is named for that sculpture: Il David di Donatello.

Beppe Severgnini

Here's an NPR piece with the humorist  Beppe Severgnini, an Italian who writes about differences between Italian and American culture.  Once you get to the link, click on the "listen" button at the top, and enjoy.  : )

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6154369