In Montagna

Sorry for the long delay. I've been quite busy here. I am taking 6 classes and helping with teaching some english lessons outside of the school. The lessons are of varying difficulties which has as much to do with the other students in the class as the subject matter or teacher. Happily I don't find myself frustrated by the learning curve. Perhaps an attribute to having experience much of the same at home; simply put, others don't tend to take these lessons as seriously as I do. Ma non mi lamento.
We returned from the mountains about a week and a half ago and though I returned with the flu, I am glad for the break we had. My excitement for my lessons of emigration and sociolinguistics has not been tempered by the first week of classes, therefore I can rightfully conclude that this will be a solid semester.
I have photos of the mountain, specifically from a nature walk, winding upward through the mountains finally ending at a small island of a hotel, l'unico, the only, source of warmth in sight. And warm it was; we drank warm wine with spice and ate chocolate cake. A great experience, hopefully you enjoy the pictures as much as I did it live.
Soon I hope to give some notes about Verona, where we also visited (beautiful) and Firenze where we are about to go.\