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In this period, I am:

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.

As the job title implies, I am still quite new at it. But I have 15+ years of experience with the program both as a participant and a coordinator, which helps.

Teaching stuff in person

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

(I’m not sure how these courses are called in English, maybe vocational training courses? Or something along these lines, I guess.)

I also started giving private guitar lessons again, and that’s a lot of fun!

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.

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 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!)

Coming up with new ideas for this blog

To be fair, a little revolution is long due.

I hope I’ll find some time to work on that by mid or late summer.

A day may come when I actually do it… but it is not this day! ⚔️

Selling stuff and decluttering

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been selling or even giving away for free a lot of things I no longer need.

A lot more just need to be disposed of, but before I do that I want to digitize anything that has any kind of sentimental value.

I find this process both time consuming and somewhat emotionally taxing, mostly due to my attachment and even eco-guilt. So I tend to procrastinate a lot.

And to be fair, it never was super urgent, so I guess that’s another reason why I put it off. But I’m a bit tired of having this in my todo list.

Taking care of myself

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

Though I could always get better at self-maintenance, I’m consistently journaling, meditating, and starting each day with gratitude.

The next step would be to incorporate physical activity on a more regular basis.

Living in the south east of Italy

…until I move again, I guess? 🙄️