Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 21

Upper left:

  • Health: “golden” consultations at the hospital and local health authority: they spend 2.3 million
  • Departments and services at the Manzoni [hospital] up for bidding by private interests?
  • Tragedy: mother of three dies in the crash

Left:

  • Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes
  • 350 thousand euros to the extortionists: gas station owner on the [?] (in the red)
  • “We sell bread, not coins”

Center left:

  • Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes
  • Volunteer dies at the fish farm
  • 140 public residences on the way

Center right:

  • Play and win very rich prizes
  • Lecco: Lario [lake] clean and safe: the interforce committee is born

Right:

  • Dangerous roads: in grave danger another mother
  • Tables in the piazza: a bar against town hall
  • Blu-celeste [light blue] rugby near Series B

Woodstock School Celebrations: Graduation 2008

Processional

Invocation by Kaye Aoki, Salutation by Anchal Lochan

Commencement Speech: Jagdish Sagar

Musical Interlude 1: Anchal Lochan on Santoor

Awards and Diplomas

Valediction by Boris Popov

Musical Interlude 2: Rebekah Blank on Trombone

Closing and Recessional

photos here

Gallery: Woodstock School Baccalaureate Ceremony 2008

The Baccalaureate ceremony of my daughter Rossella’s graduating class. The students wear their national/regional costumes for this event. Ross, logically, wore Italian couture. Yes, one of her classmates is actually a Cossack (I think the uniform was his father’s), who has since attended the London School of Economics. Others in the class are from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, various parts of India (including Nagaland), Korea, Finland, US, Japan (they arrived late, it took so long to get into their traditional dress!).

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