Oral Presentations!
Mar | 05
Italian In Four Projectors: Four separate projectors were turned on and heated up today for the Umbra Institute Italian classes’ oral presentations. As part of their classwork all students have to prepare an oral presentation (with PowerPoint, of course) about... Read More
Perugia santa!
Feb | 21
While we like to refer to the center of the city as a campus,Perugia isn’t just about academics and cultural experiences. The city also has a very eclectic religious life that hums quietly along. There are of course all sorts of possibilities for... Read More
Coffee and Social Space
Feb | 19
Yesterday was the follow-up to the first Coffee Safari, one of the workshops the Umbra Institute student services team offers. The workshop started out like the first coffee safari – a round of Perugia’s center with explanations of the “personalities”... Read MoreSiena, Eagles, and Caterpillars…
Feb | 19
Last Friday, Umbra student Kyla Mathews and her Contemporary Italy: Culture and Society class left Perugia’s Piazza Italia bound for the historic center of Siena. They spent the day touring the ancient city’s cobblestone streets, and even had the... Read More
The Hat of Italy’s Green Heart
Feb | 13
Last Sunday some twenty Umbra students, accompanied by several professors (and Desire the Dachsun), set off into the rolling wilderness surrounding Spoleto bound for the summit of towering Monte Luco. And it couldn't have been a better day for a... Read More
La Tramontana
Feb | 05
Believe it or not, Italians have names for every wind. There’s the scirocco, a hot wind that comes out of Africa and carries red dust (from the Sahara) that it drops with rain to coat everything with a red film,... Read More