The Tailgate Party | Every Fans Delight

Tailgating Buffalo Bills Fans

Tailgate parties are an American pastime. Tailgate parties are an organized social events held around the tailgate (trunk, or boot) of a vehicle. Tailgating more often than not, involves copious amounts of cheap beer barbecued burgers, sausages and hot dogs.

The tailgate party itself, is generally held in the parking lots of major American and Canadian sporting stadiums. It’s the build up to the BIG game: football, soccer, baseball, hockey and basketball.

There are pre-game tailgate parties and post-game tailgate parties. You are a true tailgater, if during the post-game tailgate you are still standing and chanting the teams support song. Continue reading

World AIDS Day | 12.1.11

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. ~Dr. Seuss

History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa … whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames … or not.
~Bono

The Reader Appreciation Award

The Reader Appreciation Award

The Reader Appreciation Award

I’m giving an award to those that have made this past year of blogging worthwhile. You have kept me on my toes, left comments, advice and tons of encouragement. For this I am grateful. Thank you.

Here’s the rules:

  1. Award your top 6 bloggers who have commented the most.
  2. Be thankful.
  3. You cannot award someone who has already been awarded. And you cannot give the award back to me.
  4. Don’t forget to tell the bloggers you’ve awarded.
  5. If you don’t want to pass on this award, that’s okay to. Just admire it.

The Reader Appreciation Award goes to:

  1. The Hook @ You’ve Been Hooked – thank you for your continued support and encouragement.
  2. Love versus Goliath – thank you for your help in understanding this crazy world we call blogging. Without your wise words I’d still be lost in this cyber space.
  3. The World According to Woman – thank you for all your advice on CELTA, TESOL and EFL. And thank you for thinking about me while in the drive-thu at Tim Horton’s.
  4. Chronicles of Illusion – thank you for ‘loving my style,’ and sticking with me this past year.
  5. Bagni di Lucca and Beyond – from one expat in Italy to the next, thank you for your continued support on My Sardinian Life.
  6. dribblingpensioner – thank you for your continued sarcasm and support in understanding this WordPress platform.

Thank you all. Happy weekend. Happy blogging.

Jennifer Avventura.

Top 6 Things I’ve Learned in a Year of Blogging | Part 2

Top 6 Things I’ve Learned in a Year of Blogging | Part 2

Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Original French proverb

Rome

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Open Letter to My 85 Followers

Dear Followers,

First and foremost, I would like to thank you all for taking time from your day to read My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda. It has been a great pleasure in getting to know some of you through comments and through your own blog posts.

It’s been a busy and fun year at My Sardinian Life and I hope to make the next year(s) just as fulfilling. Continue reading

Top 6 Things I’ve Learned in a Year of Blogging | Part 1

It’s hard to believe that one year has passed since I began writing My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda. I never thought I would actually write things that people would read, and I never thought I had the courage to publish what I’ve written.

My first blog post was written one year ago today. It’s a simple post on how everything, I mean everything in Sardinia happens domani, tomorrow. Things still happen domani, even after a year. You can’t change a culture, but you can change yourself.

I started My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda with no set goals in mind. I’ve been a writer my entire life, but my writings were always kept private. It was time to come out of the closet and announce to the world that I, Jennifer Avventura am a writer.

Here is a list of the Top 6 things I’ve learned in the past year of blogging. Continue reading

Writer’s Block Overload | Photo Post

I’ve been a lazy blogger, I think. But I’ve been busy studying the ropes in this sphere called blogging. There is so much to learn that it’s exhausting at the best of times. I thought I could just come into the blogging world, write some pieces and fame would fall upon me.

Well the fame part didn’t happen … yet (crossing fingers, toes and eyes.) I have written over one hundred posts in the space of twelve months, but I feel it’s not enough when I look at other more prominent bloggers.

I’m writing some pieces, putting final touches on other articles and reading all I can about owning your own blog. There is a ton of information to take in for those in the beginning stages of blogging. Every day is a learning experience.

Did you know that My Sardinian Life will be one year old this week! That’s right folks, I’ve been blogging, writing and commenting my way though thousands of blogs in the last year. And I’ve had a blast doing so.

To tide you folks over for a few days while I try to finish some articles (I’ve never been good with deadlines, and knowing that I’m writing a guest post, makes me nervous as heck, I want it to be perfect) here are a few photos from this past weekend.

Cala Calboni

Cala Calboni

Cala Calboni

Cala Calboni

Historic Aragonese Tower of Isola Rossa

No one is holding me down to write, nor am I being held captive by my keyboard. Writing is something I want to do, something I crave to do, something I love to do.

At times I find myself in a deep black hole trying to climb the writer’s block out. I can’t come up with killer headlines or any headline at all, or the first paragraph should be the last and maybe this photo isn’t the best choice and it’s possible that I’ve gotten myself so far in that there is no other way out but to write. Write anything.

How do you kill writers block?

The Highs & Lows of the Italian Stamp | An Ongoing Series

*Update November 4, 2011

**Original post written on October 12, 2011

The Italian postal system is mystifying, one day it’s black the next white. I wrote a post in December 2010 called How The Italian Postal System Blows My Mind which was an ongoing post about how my mothers packages would arrive via various methods. One day black and one day white, right? Continue reading

Life Before The Internet | Remembering Youth

Life before the internet was, well, freedom. In nineteen seventy-nine email didn’t exist. If you wanted to email someone you had to put pen to paper. So Old-Skool. Imagine. There was that pen pal in Italy who sent strange gifts of potent liquid lavender and small dried pieces of bread shaped like a boot. The writing stopped after the lavender incident, Mom said it was just weird. Continue reading