Monthly Archives: February 2009

It’s been raining a lot in Bologna. Rainy weather has a weird affect on me; either I become really productive or I turn into a nostalgic hermit. Lately I’ve been the second, and it’s really draining me. I kind of get lost in this little world of mine, where society doesn’t exist and I’m left alone with my thoughts and faded memories that seem to have never existed in the first place. My window leads right out into a main […]

When you start living in another country discovering different customs is an everyday encounter.  I remember being so excited to go to the local pool by my apartment, and revive myself in the chlorinated lake that I’ve learned to love from years of swimming and playing water polo. As I began dunking my head under water and letting the cool crispness flow through my hair, I looked up to realize that everyone was looking at me like a freak.  Apparently […]