Mother's Day and School Orientation

Today was Orientation Day. Nothing like summer orientation for students entering Clemson. This was shorter and more fun. All 36 of us met this morning to learn more about our teaching schedules and how schools are organized in this city. Fascinating stuff. Teachers here have much more autonomy to develop curricula than they do in test-happy SC. I'm eager to see how it operates. Tomorrow we'll be attending one meeting or another all day to prepare for our first day in a classroom.

I didn't have time to write last night, but here's a simple description of how we spent Mother's Day: the Bovi family has a vacation house in the village of Garda, on Lake Garda, about one hour's (really, really fast) drive north of Carpi. We just spent the day, but we'll stay overnight all next weekend. It's indescribably scenic, even with heavy clouds over the mountains across the lake from "our" house. The pictures above are a couple of views from one of the balconies. It's getting late now and I don't want to be late for school tomorrow, so that's all for now. Buona notte!