PAOLA FORNARI C.V.
Writer, EFL teacher, trainer, and translator, I was born in Tanzania, have lived in a dozen countries over three continents, and describe myself as an ‘expatriate sin patria’. Wherever I go I make it my business to learn the language, get to know the local people and customs, and discover the country’s remotest corners. I became interested in writing in mid-2006, did a short Open University creative writing course and a Writers’ Bureau course, and began getting articles published in 2007.
Sweeney Departing
Sweeney Suspected
20 June 2009
The day before yesterday, at about 4.30 p.m., while I was sitting at my desk trying to find my way round the new Writelink site, I heard a fairly loud sound, like a banging door,
A Swedish Saturday
Emilia's doing a triathlon!
Cambridge Book of the Month: English for Job-Hunting
Colm Downes, author of this book, was one of our team of three on the Ankara training course in April. I have bought the book, to use with my students, and can highly recommend it - check it out!
Book: http://peo.cambridge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=7&Itemid=9 .
Maybe some of you have kids who are at the job-hunting stage - this book and Colm's article may be just what they need.
Article: http://peo.cambridge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=7&Itemid=9
Brussels 20 k
The 30th annual Brussels 20-kilometre road race takes place today. The 25,000 available places were snapped up very quickly after registration opened. This year participants, including renowned international athletes, will have come specially to Belgium from 43 countries. Seventy-six nationalities will be represented. It's a gorgeous day. If you click here you'll see a map: http://www.20kmdebruxelles.be/20km/set_en.htm I live just where the guy is running on the bottom of the circle drinking from a can.
Jessie goes to Sardinia (or Pru's Packing Palaver)
‘Nine point two kilos!’ Pru called from the hallway, zipping up her new case. ‘I’ve done it at last!’
‘Great, well done.’
Why Sardinia?
‘Doesn’t look like we’re going to get the Irish holiday this year. Let’s go away soon, instead.’
This was late April.
‘Okay,’ my husband said, getting out his diary. ‘When are we both free?’
We found a slot between 10 and 18 May.
‘Where shall we go?’
‘Somewhere south, cheap, a short flight, and where we’ve never been before,’ was my suggestion.
Going on holiday? Take a kanga!
Traditionally, in East Africa, women wear kangas. A kanga is a rectangular piece of fine cotton cloth, which has a border all round it.
Sardinia - Chausiku's latest adventure(s)
So you're back from a week's holiday to a place you'd never been to before, the photos are down- and uploaded (see a selection on http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=121704&id=664241054&ref=nf), your notebook is full, but what story do you start with?
Well, what do people want to read?
Over to you - will it be: