Mom's here finally! After a 2 hour delay of plane... heh. I was starting to get worried that her plane would never land. But shes here, we've eaten some good food, I've shown her a little of the city and my apartment. She met Jerod and Matthew. Then we ate at the best restaurant ever. Its name translates to Porcupine Restaurant. I ordered ( Read more... )

Oh how I want to watch "Nightmare Before Christmas"... Lets update on things. Midterms are OVER! Though i only had two, so why am I so relieved? Heh. And the two werent horribly bad. I think I did okay. I've had a monster sinus infection plagued by serious headaches, so I go to the Farmacia and get some italian version of advil.... bad idea ( Read more... )

Let me try this again. My first update got lost somehow because Livejournal hates me. So anywho... Friday night wasnt so fun, but Saturday night was pretty great. Kiersten calls Andrea's phone to ask her to go out, but she was going to hang with Angelo (piece of crap, him, not her). So she hands the phone to me. Apparently Kiersten's friend Lori ( Read more... )

I cant believe its already October 22nd. Good thing I didnt eat the yogurt in the fridge its already expired. Heh. I cant belive that I've been here almost 2 months already!!! I have really gotten used to this lifestyle. Last night was...memorable. So I took a night off from watching tv with Jared then going to bed early. Andrea called me ( Read more... )

Things have been weird as of late. Last night I spent 3 hours drawing and trying to perfect a Madonna with Child and then depicting Mary Magdalene after she has been living as a hermit in the woods. Where do these things come from?! Oh, perhaps that I'm been drowning in religious art for the past month of art history could have something to do ( Read more... )

Yesterday was wonderful!! I tagged along for an Early Renaissance Art History field trip to Siena and San Gimignano. It was beautiful, but I must say that San G. is my favorite. It was really magical...or maybe it was the wine that the teacher bought us. Lol. Anywho, we left Florence at 7am, so I slept on the way to Siena. We got there, and it ( Read more... )

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Visited the Boboli Gardens on Sunday on my own. Best experience of Florence yet! I think I'm just not a city girl. I loved all the little hidden alcoves and fountains. It was so peaceful. No path was directly to anywhere. Its just a meandering long walk. It was wonderful. Well, thats about all thats new. Update later. Bye!

Its 1:02pm or like the crazy Euros say 13:02. I am done with classes for the day. This is why I love Mondays and Wednesdays. I have class from 830-1030, then 1200-12:55, Art History, then Italian, and then I am done for the day. Its wonderful! Although this much freetime usually leads to me wondering around the city getting lost and then ( Read more... )

So here I am in Florence, Italy. It has rained every day since I arrived. Yesterday it was sunny in the morning though, so I went out wandering by myself. I walked for 4 hours, some along the Arno, got to see a bit of the Tuscan countryside, breezed through the market, then found the equivolent of our dollar store. It was wonderful, so I stocked ( Read more... )