I'm off again!

I'm headed to Italy for my first official teaching job, and that trip will also have a blog, if you're interested. Check out http://teacherinitalian.blogspot.com/ for my next adventure.

While I was gone...

It's been seven months since I was last at UVA, and it's been interesting to be back.

Things that have changed:

- Entire new buildings have appeared! Classes are meeting in the South Lawn building already and the new Ed School building is supposed to be done by the beginning of the summer.

- There's lots of new first years in the groups I've been in. I've met so many SotLites this week! It's odd to have some people in the group that I know so well and others that I've never even heard of.

- Other people graduated and moved away to grad schools and jobs in other states. I miss you guys!

- New apartment, conveniently located across the street from the best Chinese food in Charlottesville, less conveniently located to Central Grounds.

- UVa's computer system. The old one wasn't good, but neither is the new one.

Things that haven't changed:

- Classes. And homework. I didn't miss homework.

- Weird schedules. College students eat and sleep at odd times, which I've slipped back into easily.

- The direction the cars are coming from when crossing the street, the side of the sidewalk people walk on, and which of a set of double doors to open. Liz and I had lunch together today, and kept running into people on the way there.

- How people talk. Things don't get "sorted," unless it's us trying to figure out how to get our Cambridge group class to work in our schedules.

Also, Aunt Su suggested that I should keep posting on here. What do you think?