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Updated: (What is a “now page”?)

In this period, I am:

Preparing to move and change lifestyle

I moved out my former house: I’m about to try living in an ecovillage.

Yeah, there would be a lot to say about it, but not here and not now.

If you would like to know more, you can always email me!

Assessing educational projects

Technically, the actual job title would be 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.

I am still quite new at it, but 15+ years of experience with the program help. And this first year is going quite well overall!

No longer teaching stuff in person?

Last year I taught IT & Communication in vocational training courses.

I also started giving private guitar lessons again, and that was great.

But now? After my quite radical lifestyle change, I don’t know. We’ll see!

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’m afraid you can’t opt out from bad jokes, though.

Procrastinating on redefining my online presence

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 too 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 admittedly that’s not much of a priority right now).

To be fair, I’ve been putting this job on hold lately. 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’ll take my advice: no DIY for your business. Not having a website is better than having one that screams unprofessional. Forewarned is forearmed!)

Procrastinating on updating this blog

To be fair, a little revolution is long due.

I still don’t know when I’ll find some time to work on that.

But I want to, and maybe it’s becoming urgent enough for me to actually do it.

Selling stuff and decluttering

After much procrastination, I’m finally getting around to remove from my life a lot of stuff I no longer need. It’s an interesting process.

I bought a car, and I want all my belongings to fit in there. Surely all the most important things already fit, but why stop there?

Not taking great care of myself

It’s been a rough month, I faltered quite a lot. But it’s always a great time to get back on track. So, here’s reminder for me and you both:

I fared rather poorly on exercise, meditation, and healthy food lately. But at least I’m consistently journaling and doing some kind of self-maintenance.

I want to take the opportunity of a new environment to make new healthy habits.

Living in the south east of Italy

…until I move again! But I’m not going that far, geographically speaking! 😜ī¸