Ciao Baby!

I am in preparation to depart for Italy in less than a week! I received a grant from Fund for Teachers www.fundforteachers.org to embark on a journey to Italy for a writer’s workshop. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to visit a country I have always desired to see and to take a weeklong writing class from Linda Lappin. http://www.lindalappin.net/bio.htm The workshop is called “Tapping into the Soul of Place”. Because I fully believe in the Nebraska Writer’s Project’s mission that a true teacher of writing must be a writer herself/himself, I constantly am looking for opportunities to better my own writing skills. http://www.unl.edu/newp/ My hope is to bring back lessons learned at the workshop and ideas about place conscious writing for my students. To learn more about where I’ll be and what I’ll be up to, check out my blog over the next few weeks. I hope to have internet connection while I’m in the small town of Vitorchiano, Italy. In the meantime, you can see for yourself where I’ll be while taking the workshop: http://www.pokkoli.org/