December 2018
I’d like to start by stating; this is not your usual wine aunts blog, this is an underage wine aunts blog.
I’m not actually a wine aunt, but apart from wannabes or other public figures, is there anyone else who seriously has and maintains a blog?
So what am I?
I’m a highly stressed snowflake from Rome.
Half Dutch, half English (because somebody must have thought it was a good idea to mix the English sarcasm with the Dutch lack of filters)somehow trapped in the school from hell.
As I’m pretty much too busy to do anything interesting out of school, this’ll contain quite a few rants about the Italian school system [Old School] in the eyes of a semi foreigner (someone who still sees what’s wrong with the system but kinda knows why they’re there)
But wait, there's more.
November 2021
Who am I now?
A slightly less highly stressed snowflake from Rome now living in England
It all started with my wanting to do a year's study abroad, part of the Erasmus program.
When Tasso [aka Old School] told me I would have to repeat year 5 when I got back (because away from Tasso I would never keep up on Latin and Greek) that was red rag to a bull and we looked for the finest classics schools in the world just to prove them wrong.
And it was that journey that took me to my New School