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So. I have been in Italy for over two weeks now. I have gotten an apartment, been to two medieval hilltowns, walked around the entire Rome ring- a walk that was 14 miles long and took 8 hours, with only two short stops for snacks/lunch, spent tons of money on art supplies and taken about 1.3 bazillion pictures. Someday I will bring my laptop to ( Read more... )

Take two: finally made it into the country. The first time, I went to the airport and I thought I had an e-ticket, but apparently I didn't, which the travel agency neglected to mention when I bought it and then I never got one in the mail. Boo. I had to spend basically all day on hold with the travel agency, but I got another flight a few days ( Read more... )

I just got my acceptance letter from the study abroad program I applied for! Hello, Rome! It starts in exactly three months! I have so much to do! Like get a passport! I am excited! And also just a little bit nervous! Italy! Exclamation point!

I came across this article while trying to find out how many abandoned buildings there are in Detroit. The comments on it are just...stunning.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/08/shrinking_detro_1.php

I'm done with my apprenticeship and my whirlwind tour of San Francisco/Berkeley. My callouses are already fading and I'm very sad about that ( Read more... )

Emerald Earth had a work party this weekend. I lead the cobbing yesterday. It's kind of...awesome to have a bunch of middle aged men looking to me for instruction and asking me if they're doing everything right. Also there were a TON of kids, some of whom I taught to make cob for a little while. Mostly they were more interested in lounging ( Read more... )

We took a field trip to the coast this weekend, and it was a pretty awesome way for me to see the Pacific coast for the first time. If I had a spare $800,000 lying around, I would totally buy that 30 acres right on the coast near Mendocino and build a cute little mud house there. There were tide pools with huge starfish that were surprisingly ( Read more... )

What a good afternoon! So, my computer broke a little over a week ago, and I thought it was because I plugged it into my laptop into my solar backpack. It hasn’t worked, even plugged into the wall, since, so I sent it to town with one of the people from Emerald Earth today. She took it to the computer guy, he opened it up, and it just worked ( Read more... )

I got a sleeping bag today at the thrift store. I'm pretty sure it's for a child, but it's just fine for me anyway and it will take up less space than a regular adult one. And it was less than five dollars ( Read more... )