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A domani

Jill

I’m going to be MIA for a while as I embark on an Italia vacation extravaganza for the next two and a half weeks. Tonight I’m flying to Hamburg, where I’ll be spending the next semester studying. I’ll drop my stuff at my apartment, and fly out the next day to Florence. Then it’s touring Tuscan towns, visiting Cinque Terre, heading Southward to Sicily, and finishing out the trip on the Amalfi coast. Then Hamburg again, and school.

In other words, I’m not going to be blogging a whole lot until I get back to H-burg on August 30th. We have a crack team of guest-bloggers assembled, so hopefully you won’t miss me too much. I’ll drop in when I can, although substantive blogging will probably give way to picture-posting and discussing the food I’ve been eating and the wine I’ve been drinking. I should be around tomorrow, but after that, just picture me well-fed and well-wined, rolling around Tuscany.

Ciao, ragazzi.

13 thoughts on A domani

  3. Have a great time! Sue (my wife, a Duke JD/LLM student) just spent the summer working in Munich and studying in Geneva. Are you doing a concentration in int’l law?

  4. Oooh, Cinque Terre! I was there last summer and it was FANTASTIC. Make sure you have the anchovies with lemon and the focciacia. 🙂

  5. Gute Reise, Jill! I know you’ll be drinking all those Italian wines, but beer is a must when you’re in Hamburg.

  6. What happened to law school?

    It’s not like they didn’t have laws in Hamburg, really. It’s more like too many of ’em, and the wrong ones. (If you read German, there’s a comparison of what laws the nazis put into effect, and in what order, and what the current minister of the interior is aiming for/has achieved so far. They’re at a point where people put up satirical posters begging for Bin Laden to free them, and sure enough, it makes you think, “Naw … Bin Laden would probably be worse”, but the point is that you have to think about it first before coming to that conclusion.)

    It may not be the best time to come to Germany (there was a sweet spot when the social system seemed to be working, spousal rape had already been codified as crime, the government didn’t see it as its duty to humiliate the unemployed, people still had half a reason to expect retirement pay, and there were civil liberties) — or maybe, escaping from the Americas, it won’t seem so bad — but then again, where can you go anymore, now that the US and a number of European countries have dropped off the list?

    Oh and Harrison, I think the expected phrase would be “Viel Spass!” 🙂 (Or arguably “Viel Erfolg!”, depending on how important the fun and the studying are, respectively. Guess you can’t go wrong wishing both, one for the vacation, the other for the studies. So carpe noctem, and all that. 🙂

  8. Ciao, ragazzi.

    What, no detailed discussion about sexist plurals in Romance languages – how mixed groups are addressed as male? I expect more from you, Jill! 😉

  9. Delurking to say I hope you enjoy living in Hamburg! I lived in Wiesbaden (near Frankfurt) for two and a half years and I loved it. I’m back in Portland now, which I also love dearly, but I miss Germany sometimes… if not the person I was with at the time. 😉

  11. There are two soccer teams in Hamburg, HSV and St Pauli (both sites in German).

    HSV is usually the better of the two on the field, but St Pauli is famous for its fanbase of, well, Dirty Fucking Hippies. You’d fit right in there 😉

  12. Pauli! There is no-one else.

    FC St. Pauli enjoy certain fame for the left leaning character of its supporters: most of the team’s fans regard themselves as anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-sexist, and this has on occasion brought them into conflict with neo-Nazis and hooligans at away games. The organization has taken up an outspoken stance against racism, fascism, sexism, and homophobia and has embodied this position in its constitution.

    The club prides itself on having have the largest number of female fans in all of German football. In 2002, advertisements for the men’s magazine Maxim were removed from the team’s stadium in response to fan protests over the sexist depictions of women in the ads. (wp)

    And I don’t even like footie.

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