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Updated: (What is a “now page”?)

In this period, I am:

Teaching stuff in person

I teach IT & Communication in training courses mostly aimed at people who are currently not working and want to build skills to become more employable.

(I’m not sure how these courses are called in English, maybe vocational training courses?)

And I also started giving private guitar lessons again, just because why not.

Teaching Italian without teaching Italian

I help people practice my beautiful native language through one-to-one conversations, active listening, and sometimes bad jokes.

Kinda like the TEDx Teaching English without Teaching English, but with Italian.

Another difference is that Roberto Guzman is a full professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla Campus, while I am but a humble galactic hitchhiker.

If you want to learn or improve your Italian, feel free to reach out: I can take on a couple more students. I’m afraid you can’t opt out from bad jokes, though.

Assessing educational projects

Technically, the actual name of my role is Junior Expert on Quality Assessment.

In a nutshell: I rank Erasmus+ grant applications and provide written feedback to the applicants, in collaboration with the Italian Youth Agency.

As implied by the role name, I am still quite new at it. We’ll see how it goes.

Freelancing as a Simplicity Web Coach

When I started out, I thought that a made-up job title could be a way to stand out. So I have appointed myself as a Simplicity Web Coach, because my goal was (and is) to simplify people’s web sites through coaching and consultancy.

Now it feels a bit salesy, and mostly unnatural. I want to drop it for a simpler and clearer Web Communication Advisor (and I would also like to redesign the website, but that’s not much of a priority right now).

To be fair, I’ve been putting this on hold for a while. I mean: when you are a freelancer, you freelance 24/7. But I’m not actively looking for projects or customers (and that’s also why I don’t feel the pressure to update my website).

But hey – if you’re curious, you can still visit my business website.

Oh, and by the way: even if you’re not a techie, you can still make a simple blog like this one (or even simpler).

(But if you want my advice: no DIY for your business. Not having a website is better than having one that screams unprofessional. Forewarned is forearmed!)

Blogging very little

As always, I have plenty of interesting ideas.

Most of them go away, some stay for 2-3 weeks until I find the time and energy to actually sit and write.

There are also a lot of changes I’d like to make. Some small, some big.

A day may come when I actually get around to doing it, but it is not this day! ⚔️

Selling stuff and decluttering

I have soooo many things I don’t need.

Some of them are not even mine (I got them from my parents when they moved), but they were in good conditions and potentially useful. I didn’t want to just throw them away, so at first I was trying to sell it. But I found out it’s pretty time consuming and not always worth it, especially when the resale value is low.

So I’ve started giving stuff away for free or – if I can’t do even that – just let go of my attachment and eco-guilt and finally dispose of them.

At the same time, I want to digitize anything that has any kind of sentimental value before just going wild. But this process is both time consuming and somewhat emotionally taxing, so I tend to procrastinate a lot.

And to be fair, none of this was ever super urgent, so I guess that’s why I was putting it off. But I’m a bit tired of having this in my todo list.

Taking care of myself

Well, I’ve not been doing great lately. I’m slowly getting back to it.

It’s easy to forget about self-care (at least for me). So, here’s reminder:

Living in the south east of Italy

I’ve always been on the move, I lived in a few places, but now I am back to my hometown and I’m thinking to stay put for a while.

I have found a nice cozy house in the old town, we’ll see what happens next! 🙂️