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Updated: (What is a “now page”?)

In this period, I am:

Changing my lifestyle

I moved out my former house. I lived in an ecovillage for about three weeks.

I’ll go back there soon enough, but I also want to explore other options.

I don’t really know how my life is gonna be, but… probably different!

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 second-hand car, and I wanted all my belongings to fit in there.

They do now, but why stop there?

Taking care of myself (sometimes)

It’s not always been easy, lately, and I’ve 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:

Living in the south east of Italy

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