Picnic with American students

Hi everybody! Still in Urbino? Nothing to do on Friday? If you’re interested, I have a group of American students doing a summer course in Urbino (you may see them around the college dorms) and I was thinking of meeting up Friday 10 at around 5:30 pm and doing some collective grocery shopping and going up to or behind the fortress to have a picnic. I figure if everyone who comes puts in 3-5 euro we could have quite a good time. It will be informal, and not obbligatory. It’s just a way for Italian students to meet Americans and vice-versa. If you have nothing better to do. All you have to do is show up in piazza in front of the fountain at 5:30 pm on Friday afternoon. We’ll then go to the Conad, get some easy food (bread, cheese, salami, drinks) and off we go! So – if you have nothing to do, and you feel like an international evening – come along and have some fun!
Hope to see you there!
Pete Cullen

Calling all musicians – THE BAND!!!!

Dear all,
in conversation with your esteemed colleague Angelino, we’ve decided to form a band or series of bands to play in concert at the end of each semester. We don’t yet have a real plan or programme, but we thought we would put the word out to everyone and see who would like to form a musical group – or two or three. All musical genres are welcome, we’ll see who can play which instruments and which genres and which types of groups to form. The idea would be to have Faculty of Language musical groups and put on a series (2? 3?) concerts during the year.
Write to me at peter.cullen@unirb.it or post a comment on this blog to sign up!
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!

Pete Cullen

Calling all musicians – THE BAND!!!!

Dear all,
in conversation with your esteemed colleague Angelino, we’ve decided to form a band or series of bands to play in concert at the end of each semester. We don’t yet have a real plan or programme, but we thought we would put the word out to everyone and see who would like to form a musical group – or two or three. All musical genres are welcome, we’ll see who can play which instruments and which genres and which types of groups to form. The idea would be to have Faculty of Language musical groups and put on a series (2? 3?) concerts during the year.
Write to me at peter.cullen@unirb.it or post a comment on this blog to sign up!
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!

Pete Cullen

Facelift poll

Ok guys – here’s the poll to see how you like the facelift! I can change the picture at the top – any suggestions?

Facelift

Ok – after leaving the face-lift question for a couple of more days, we still have a 50-50 tie. What I’m going to do is this: I’ll change the look of the site and ask you if you like it! I’m hoping to add a bit more space on the screen and brighten it up a bit.

It’s quite a nice day, I’m sitting here in the faculty with some of you and your colleagues who are graduating today. Congratulations to all of you! For those of you who will take exams with me on Monday – review, don’t try to learn it all in 1 weekend (you can’t). You can go over and practice a bit with what you already know! Don’t let yourselves get nervous!!! YOU can get through it, just concentrate on the logic of the material.

Good luck to the new graduates in the post-university world, and good luck to the pre-graduates in the exam world!!!

Have a great weekend!

Pete Cullen

FC Lingue

Hi everybody, just a quick note to draw your attention to FC LINGUE’s blog! Go to www.fclingue.wordpress.com to follow the exploits, adventures, opinions and observations of YOUR Language Faculty football team! I’ve added it to the blogroll here on the right hand side of the page. Like this one, the blog is in English and has links to football oriented sites – in English. Have fun with it! We’ll be looking for players next year!
All the best and have a great evening!
Pete Cullen

Face lift

Hi guys!

We’ve got a couple more days to go before I make a decision to give this blog a face lift! One important observation has been “it depends on HOW I give this thing a face lift”.  The idea is to make it a bit brighter, and perhaps add a personalised photo at the header instead of the city scene. I may change the column format, but the structures, links and sub-pages wouldn’t change.

Let me know what you think!

DO have a great summer!

Pete Cullen

Blog face-lift?

Hi everybody,

Now that this blog has been up for two years, perhaps its time to give it a face-lift! I will leave that decision up to you, the reader, however. I will give you one week to decide by answering the following poll, and then will change, or not change the appearance of the blog according to your vote! Voting is fun!

Thanks guys, I will be interested to read your decision!

All the best!

Pete Cullen

June 15 check your exam work

Hi guys,

for all those of you who finished either the 1st or the 2cnd year written language exams with a 16* – and all those others who are interested – please come to Via Oddi at 8:15 on the morning of June 15 (just before the accertamenti) to look at your exam work. We will explain as best we can what went wrong and where you need to improve. Thank you!

Pete Cullen

Exams! We are pleased!

Hi guys!
Just a quick note to let you know that B1 and B2 written exam marks are out. I’m quite pleased, as they went quite well! I know the day of the listening exam was quite crazy, but you all handled it with patience and good attitude – thank you!
I will see some of you on the 15th for the oral exams, and some of you I won’t see. In the meantime, I wish all of you a GREAT SUMMER!!!