Flight to India : Flight news and information

Saw this great video about Facebook’s development team today.  Got me thinking…more companies need to think like this.  Focused, uninterrupted work is the greatest gift you have…but how often do we really do it? Generally speaking, if you are answering your phone, opening snail mail, chatting, emailing, even talking with other people at all…you are NOT working.  Sorry to say it but you’re not.  Work is when you are alone, by yourself in your room, with all communication devices turned off.  20 minutes later you’ll actually be in the zone and then you’re really working.  That’s when you get real writing done.  That’s when you can strategize about the next moves for your company.  That’s when you can design great marketing.  That’s when you can design great art or great engineering.  That’s where breakthroughs happen.  That’s when you see connections between completely different ideas and how they could be better together.  That’s when you really produce instead of just reacting to things all day

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Stop Talking About It And Just Build It

Here you have some comments about the course for Italian language teacher held in Milan from June 15th to July 26th. After reading them, if you want to follow their suggestions, we remember the next Italian language preparation course for teachers starting dates: Milan : from 21 September to 02 October Florence : from 19 to 30 October Rome : from 05 to 16 October (more…)

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Are you an Italian language teacher? Discover our preparation course directly from our students

PLATE BY PLATE Hosted by Project by Project to Benefit the Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP) On Saturday, August 1, 2009, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Project by Project will be hosting the Seventh Annual Tasting Benefit called Plate by Plate in Los Angeles, California. All net proceeds from the admission and auction purchases of the event will benefit the Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program to help the organization strengthen its foundation and mission to assist the development of Asian and Pacific Islander small and micro businesses in Los Angeles, especially those of low income immigrants of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Filipino communities

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Project by Project Hosts Seventh Annual Tasting Benefit – Plate by Plate

When I first mentioned the name of the course I was going to follow in Siena to one of my best friends, she only giggled. La dolce vita, that’s nothing you can learn – in her opinion. But trust me: once you enter the magical world of this course, the Italian way of life will have an everlasting influence on everything you’ll do! La dolce vita definitely is not the same as the famous dolce far niente

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HOW TO STUDY LA DOLCE VITA IN SIENA? Ten steps to experience Siena and the Sienese life

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Living Abroad I just finished doing my financial statements for last month, and was pretty happy when I noticed that it only cost a total of $1,018 USD for me to live and work in Buenos Aires last month!  That’s really cheap, certainly much cheaper than living in the U.S. This proves the point I wrote about a while back , which is that it really isn’t that expensive to travel the world if you do it right. How can you afford to travel the world

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Total Expenses Living In Buenos Aires Last Month: $1,018

Wine & Latin Food: They Said It Would Never Last Fine Wine and Latin Cuisine Converge at East LA Meets Napa – a Benefit for AltaMed Health Services Corporation On Friday, July 10, 2009, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, AltaMed Health Services will be hosting the Fourth Annual East LA Meets Napa celebration, featuring the diversity of Latin cuisine from Los Angeles area restaurants coupled with fine wine from Latino-owned or –operated Napa wineries. Attended by more than 1,000 wine and culinary enthusiasts, East LA Meets Napa speaks to the ongoing preference among aficionados to pair wine with Latin food instead of beer or margaritas

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East LA Meets Napa Event

Check out this question from a Breaking Free reader… Hey Brian, I have been thinking about opening a coffee shop, not long actually probably for this past month, Im 21 years old and currently part of an internship. I have a lot of time to plan, and research, but I cant seem to grasp what exactly I need to do. The obvious would be taking a basic course in business, however, in the meantime… Do you have any suggestions on what I should start learning, if I am someday to own a coffee lounge

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Reader Question: How To Start A Coffee Shop

If I had to choose my favorite non-fish seafood, it would be shrimp all the way and if you’re a shrimp lover like me, than Mariscos Chente should be on your to go list. I had actually paid a visit to the Marsicos Chente location in Lennox a few months back and loved my meal there, so I was really interested in seeing if the consistency would be the same at their other location in Mar Vista. Bill aka Street Gourmet LA made all the arrangements for our meal there and what a feast it was.

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Shrimp and More at Mariscos Chente

Summer is around the corner, which means cones dripping with ice cream will soon be the rule and not the exception, although with me, it could be 20 degrees below outside and as long as I’m warm and toasty inside, ice cream would still be my favorite sweet treat. To jump start ice cream season, I set up a gelato and sorbet tasting for my dining group at Paciugo Gelato in Hermosa Beach owned and run by daughter and mother team, Brittny Thacker and Monien Ibarra, respectively

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The Surprising, But Fun Flavors of Paciugo Gelato

I’m sure everyone can relate to having show tickets and trying to figure out where to grab a bite to eat beforehand. That was my dilemma as I was rushing from work to meet a couple of friends and of course, on my way there, I got a call with the inevitable question, “Where should we eat?” Given that the show was at the Pantages Theater, which isn’t too far from Thai Town, a Thai restaurant was the obvious choice, but for once, I wasn’t in the mood for Asian food

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Already Planning a Return Trip to Natalie Peruvian Seafood Restaurant

Our Teacher Carla from Scuola Leonardo da Vinci Florence asked his students attending the course for Italian language Teachers held in October 2008 an opinion about their experience at Scuola Leonardo. Here down their answers: “Il corso insegnanti che ho seguito in Ottobre 2008, è stato interessante da più punti di vista. Mi ha permesso di conoscere quali fossero gli strumenti necessari per la professione di insegnante di italiano a stranieri ed inoltre i formatori si sono dimostrati molto  disponibili per eventuali spiegazioni o chiarimenti

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Italian language course for Teachers: read our STUDENTS’ OPINION!

After I blogged about the Chocolate Afternoon Tea at the Langham Hotel , I was invited back to check out the Summer Select Prix Fixe Menu at their restaurant, The Dining Room. Again, I have to say thanks to Tara of When Tara Met Blog and the Langham Hotel . Given that The Dining Room was the only hotel restaurant to receive a Michelin star in 2008 under Executive Chef, Craig Strong, I was really looking forward to the meal; however, I should note that by the time I dined at The Dining Room, Chef Strong had taken a new position with Montage Hotels in Laguna Beach

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Checking Out the Summer Select Prix Fixe Menu in The Dining Room

For those of you who are or are not regular readers of my blog, you may not realize that I run a very active dining group that also goes by the name, Pleasure Palate. If you’re in the LA area or even visiting the LA area and would like to join me and other food lovers, please check out my group by clicking here! While there’s a variety of events currently on the calendar, I’d like to highlight some below. May 17 – Gelato and Sorbet Tasting at Paciugo Gelato Caffe Summer is just around the corner and what better way to get in the spirit than enjoying delicious ice cream by the beach

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Upcoming Pleasure Palate Events

A journalist wrote an article about the experience she had in Italy , more precisely in Siena , and talked about us, the Italian language School Leonardo da Vinci . Yes, it’s true! In the ‘travel page’ of The Epoch Times, a global newspaper throughout Canada, USA & London, the Indian journalist Jasleen Kandhari tells about her two lovely weeks spent in the Tuscan medieval town learning Italian at the School Leonardo da Vinci and attending the course “ La Dolce Vita ”.

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Scoop on School Leonardo da Vinci: an article about us!

In summer 2009, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) will offer a large number of prestigious Summer Courses in the field of Italian Language plus Design , such as Fashion Design, Styling and Accessories, Fashion Marketing and Merchandising, Fashion Photography and Journalism, Fashion Textiles and Fibres, Interior and Product Design, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design Studio, Graphic Design, Graphic Art Design for Fashion, Photography and the Moving Image, Theatre Design. After attending the course of Fashion Photography, for example, students will have the opportunity to understand the high-potential of images, while through the course of Fashion Journalism they will perceive the convincing power of words also in a field like fashion, where what people see is usually more important than what is written, thought or illustrated.

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Fashion, Design and Graphic Design Summer Courses in Milan

It is hard to believe, now that my 5 weeks on a German course in Frankfurt are drawing to a close, but when I arrived, I was actually quite nervous. A foreign country, a language I then hardly spoke and living with perfect strangers – of course I was nervous! But when I saw the smiling face of my host mother, holding a sign with my name, I somehow knew everything would be all right – and I would come to realize that it would be so, so much more than that! Upon arriving at my home for the following 5 weeks, I immediately felt most welcome. I had dinner with my host family and after getting over my initial shyness, I actually began joining in already

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Five fun-filled weeks in Frankfurt

Thinking back on my two months in Lima, I’m having a difficult time classifying my time here, and I think that says a lot in itself about the Peru that I’ve gotten to know! There’s so much diversity here that you can’t place much in categories, generalize and get away with it – there’s far too much here for that. From the three climate zones – la costa (the coast), la sierra (the mountains), and la selva (the rainforest) – to the people that inhabit those regions, to the obviously vast differences in the socio-economic makeup of the country; there is just too much variety to say any one thing about Peru

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My two months in Lima….

One word and one word only comes to mind when I think of Montreal: SHOPPING! As your average red-blooded American girl, I already had my share of shopping experience under my oh so fashionable belt when I arrived in Montreal, BUT even I was soon exhausted from going from boutique to fabulous boutique in this amazing city! Of course, I’d come here to learn French, and that’s what I did – not only in my classes every morning in the school – but also every afternoon, out exploring the city and its wonderful shops! There simply isn’t enough time in the day to see every store in Canada’s fashion capital and thanks to their expansive underground, you don’t even have to go outside the city centre if you don’t want to. Sure, they have big name chains but what makes Montreal shopping particularly special is the little shops you can’t find anywhere else. What’s best about these tiny boutiques is that you know no one back home is going to be wearing what you’re wearing.

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Retail Therapy in Montreal!