I firmly resolve,.....

Ok, so I went to this conference in Padova, Italy where the entire conference was on Computer Mediated Communication and I came away from it with all this knowledge about Blogs, virtual classrooms, pod casting and video streaming. So I have resolved to be more diligent in my posting. I may even try to integrate all of this stuff into my classroom. I'm not sure about the second life stuff and creating role playing games, but what the heck,... By the way this is a photo of the original university,..the third oldest in the world and where Galileo taught along with hundreds of other early scholars.
So Christmas was great and seeing the boys was as always excellent. Then back to CZ. Spring came early and was beautiful, warm and full of flowers. The garden is in and Ken is still madly painting. The end of the semester is only weeks away and Ken is planning a quick trip back to the US to take care of some business. I will be trying to attend an intensive Czech School this summer in the vague hope of mastering this language.
Italy was wonderful and warm. Ken came along for the wine and the art. We visited great museums and churches. Everywhere was like a post card. This is a photo of my favorite church in Treviso. It's Italian Gothic and still has a wooden roof,..unusual because most of them burned off. The pillars were all covered with Frescos. This alter is in the same church and we have continued the tradition of lighting a candle for the boys in each of the churches. These are for them.
It was strange returning to the CZ after Italy. Both Ken and I commented on how it was good to be "home". I guess we have truly settled in.