Monday, 2/3/03
I am on the bus home from today's trip, so now I am virtually 3 days behind. It is just so hard to take my eyes off the Italian landscape. Saturday morning we went to Arezzo. I was with Kate and Morgan and at first we just walked the streets looking at antiques tables. It was market day. There was anything from china to silver, to doors, furniture, chandeliers, keys, paintings, furs, etc. Next we actually went shopping. I wasn't too excited because I didn't want to spend money, but it was actually a lot of fun. Kate, Morgan, and I ended up all getting the same denim skirt [I still wear that skirt, by the way]. Then we ate lunch at a pizza place (very good spinach pizza) and wandered around town, missed the 2 o'clock train, and had the richest, most divine ice cream ever. We went back home at 4, and while I was laying down for my nap Cady found out that the space shuttle Columbia crashed. What a shocker! After watching the news I got my pre-dinner 2 hour nap.
This morning us architecture students knew the bus was leaving at 8, but we had no idea where to. We went to the outskirts of Florence where there actually was a settlement of modern apartments--'60s and '70s. They were concrete, but the craftsmanship was still very detailed. Then we visited a church, a beautiful organic looking church with a curved roof and finger-like pillars inside [San Giovanni Battista church]. Kate, Morgan and I ate McDonald's for lunch at a mall. I think we will not crave American food again for a long time. The mall was neat--all the shops were closed for lunch, but the escalators are long shallow ramps instead of stairs.
Last we went to another medieval town outside Siena called Colle di Val D'Elsa. The interesting thing about it was that, unlike Castiglion Fiorentino, the old town is not sloping up the hill. There are some extremely steep streets up to the top and the old town sits flat on the top. In a way, it had an even more medieval feel than Castiglion because there are no tourists there. There were lots of mysterious streets and dark tunnels--my imagination ran wild. I loved it! We came back, went to the Co-op (grocery), and went to dinner.
I am alone in the hall now and it is 1:13, I only got 5 hours of sleep last night (I woke up so late that I got hyper last night--I ran up our secret staircase but got scared so I ran back down and accidentally banged on someone else's door), and I will only get 6 1/2 tonight. Buono notte.
Tuesday, 2/4/03
Today has been a good day. I woke up at 8, took a shower, ate breakfast, then went to bed again and slept until my 11 o'clock class. I really like Marco's lectures. He is very entertaining and he focuses more on the cultural implications of art than the details of the art itself. Then we had lunch. During studio I sketched an Etruscan carving of a dragon's head several times from different angles. I really like my dragon. I love dragons!
After dinner. I started reading Persuasion, then got so excited about it that I couldn't read it anymore. [what the..?]
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