Sunday, February 15, 2004

Italian High Schools

February 15, 2004

Some Observations from a Non-Italian Parent The Italian public high school system is complex, with dozens of different types of schools, divided into two major branches, licei and institutes. The licei were traditionally the college-preparatory schools, while the technical and professional institutes were intended to put people directly into the workforce. I say “were,” because [...]

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Red-Eared Sliders in da House!

February 15, 2004

We don’t have a normal array of pets. We have a horse (if you can call a horse a pet; at any rate, he doesn’t live with us), and we have two turtles, Poirot and Marple. We don’t know their sexes, so they’re not M. Poirot and Miss Marple, just Poirot and Marple. We do [...]

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The Post Office: An Italian Tradition of Bureaucracy

February 15, 2004

I hope that my friends and relatives have forgiven me for the fact that I have never mailed presents to them from Italy. I either have something shipped directly from a company in the US, or I wait til I’m in the US myself, preferably actually visiting the person in question, to give gifts. This [...]

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