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ICBIE Celebrates the Academic Year’s End
Last Friday night, the ICBIE’s third academic year came to an end, with a diploma ceremony and a Christmas party for all the Italian language classes. More than half of the students who attend courses at the Institute are enrolled in Italian, and that subject has always been the centerpiece of our academic program. People…
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Bogus Arrives in Rome
An overload of rather uncanny and exhilarating incongruities shook the eternal city last night. First there was a terrible tramontana that transformed the scenes on the streets, and the usual leisurely bustle of Saturday evening shoppers was forced to scuttle along quick, with chattering teeth and exaggerated winter apparel. When the thermometer slips below freezing,…
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Bridge to Bahia Toy Sale at AOSR
From kindergarten to twelfth grade, the American Overseas School of Rome spurs all its students to share their human resources to fight poverty and ignorance, and to tackle the injustices of the global economic divide. Instead of superficially plowing the platitudes of the world’s tragedies, AOSR chose instead to form a meaningful relationship with a…
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A Special ICBIE Wedding
With Bogus safely on the plane to Europe, it’s time to recount another sweet ICBIE story, one that also helps to acknowledge a wonderful lady who has become an essential part of the Institute. Everyone who has visited the ICBIE during the last couple of years has come to love Lu, our quiet and reserved…
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ICBIE Puts a Fresh Face Forward
The restoration of our front facade is nearly completed. Pietro couldn’t wait to show off the results, because it looks terrific!
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Grassroots is great, but…
As the ICBIE performs its mission, it confronts the social reality of the cidade baixa with a profound admiration, respecting the native traditions that sustain it, even amidst enormous challenges. Primarily, we work for an empowerment of its youth by means of a reinforcement, rather than a reformation or an annulment, of their cultural heritage.…
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Assorted ICBIE Tidbits
The ever-growing ICBIE network is producing news that comes from many different places, and there’s never a dull moment. The operation in Salvador and the people in Rome are constantly cooking up new initiatives, and then there are other developments spattered across the globe: it’s clear evidence of a remarkable rush of vitality. The first…