A new direction

Hello again,

if you are still reading this blog, thank you very much for sticking around. I have been absent for a while, busy trying to become a state school teacher here in Italy. It has been a roller-coaster of emotions, so I honestly have not had the head space to think about this blog.

However, I am now on summer break, so I finally have the time and focus required to process what this first year as school teacher has meant to me and where I want to go from here. I also have had the time to ask myself: what do I want to make of this blog?

Since 2025 marks my 10th year of blogging (more or less uninterruptedly), I have decided that I don’t really want to give up on it. On the other hand, some of the things I am experiencing as a teacher in Italy (which will become part of the content of this blog) are deeply rooted in the Italian state school environment, which I feel would get lost in translation if I tried to document it in English.

I have therefore decided to add an “Italian” section to the blog, with posts in Italian which will be marked with a flag 🇮🇹, and will be collectively available in the categories menu under “Italian”.

After all, most browsers offer an automatic translation service, so if someone who doesn’t read Italian comes this way, I figured they can easily understand the articles anyway using automatic translation. Also, I wish my Italian colleagues would read some of the posts, and I would love to start a conversation about the present condition of the Italian schools system. I am hoping that writing in Italian will facilitate this exchange.

Thanks again for stopping by and reading this. I have a couple of posts planned, but in the meanwhile if you want to catch up on my older posts, you can do that through the archive page.