WhenInRome

Accepted ETA to Italy! Found out on my way out of school when I finished teaching today and was freaking out all by myself in the parking lot. I'm hoping none of my students were watching, as it probably was not my most professional moment, but I'm so excited that I don't care!!

For any fellow Italy ETA hopefuls out there, I ran across this on the US-Italy Fulbright commission site: Fulbright English Teaching Assistants : firmato protocollo di intesa 2013-14 ...L’accordo siglato stabilisce che durante l’anno scolastico 2013-2014 cinque giovani assistenti statunitensi collaboreranno con i docenti italiani di lingua inglese in alcune scuole secondarie superiori del Centro e Sud Italia. Apparently they signed an agreement on with the US Embassy on March 20th that there would be funding for 5 ETAs next year (rather than the 3 they've been publicizing all application season)! I found the same press release on the Embassy site, but of course nothing in English and no changes on the US Fulbright site. Either way, seems like a good sign!