No classes Monday....a holiday. We did homework, laid around. Most everyone came to lunch and some even dinner, in our pajamas. In the middle of the day I went on a walk with Chloe, Kiki and Kussman down to the Duomo and to get some Gelato. I stopped by school with Kuss to print out some papers, came home, went on a run, then dinner.
After dinner I got dressed and ready and left with Kuss, Brooks and Garret to go to Kikoya, one of our favorite bars. Carter Brown and Kylie McAllister were both there. Carter is visiting from Amsterdam, and his 21st birthday was monday night. It was SO good to see him and Kylie. We spent the night reminiscing about highschool and telling one another about our semesters.
Tuesday was the only day this week I had all my classes. In philosophy, we walked down to Piazza San Marco to go into the church. Our teacher took us from painting to statue, telling us stories and giving us historical facts. Then we walked over to Piazza Annunciata and went into the church there as well. She told us more interesting information, mostly about Michaelangelo and how this church is a place he used as a hideout from the Medicci family.
Italian was the usual. A lot of laughing and playing around.
Painting was also the usual. Frustrating, messy, but fun.
We did an "Around the Pensioni" dinner Tuesday night. In groups of 25 we walked to each pensione and had a course. My group had pasta first, located at the Nazionale pensione. It was delicious. The vegetarian pasta was amazing, apparently the woman who owns their pensione used to be a professional chef, we could tell.
We had bruscetta here, salad at Savonarola, and hamburgers (veggie burgers) at Gallo. It was a fun night. Cool to see the other pensioni and to meet the people they live with.
THat night we went to Trivia. Our new favorite Tuesday night event. It starts at 8:30 and for 10 euro you get all the beer you can drink for 2 hours. About 20 to 25 of us always go and we break into teams of 5. (This week was awesome because about 15 of the engineering major kids came. We NEVER see them out, let alone drinking. They were a blast to hang out with outside of class for once.) Kiki, Chloe, Keagan, Kira and I were all on a team for trivia. We were thankful we had Keagan this week because one entire round was just pictures of album covers that we had to label, so Keagan dominated that round for our team. Luckily there was also a science round, I was excited and got our team enough points to pull us from 4th into 2nd.
Sadly we ended up in a tie for second with the group of boys next to us. The team who won got a 50 euro bar tab and once again (just like last week) bought everyone a shot with it. We are all very loving and sharing towards one another, haha, its great.
Karaoke begins when trivia ends. By that time, everyone has had enough beer to be willing to sing and dance. EVERYONE signed up for a song, literally. I signed up to do Michael Jackson's, Man in the Mirror, and obviously no one was shocked about it. My friend Kalea sang with me, and Chloe and Alexandra ended up jumping on stage as well. It was awesome. Everyone sang and danced along and were happy to hear an MJ song...everybody loves MJ :)
Wednesday at school was hilarious. Sooo many kids had gone out the night before so all of us were telling/hearing stories and entertaining our teachers with our tired eyes but smiling faces.
After lunch all the girls in my pensione headed upstairs to our rooftop terrace. We were in our swimsuits and took beach towels and laid out all afternoon listening to music, reading books, and doing homework. It was a dream. It was so warm out, not a cloud in the sky.
After dinner a few of us considered going out again, but decided that a full night of rest would be a better idea. We all went to sleep fairly early.
One of my classes was cancelled today so I only had Italian. I technically only had 2 days of school this week which is why I gave this post the title it has. We had a quiz today in Italian though, but it went pretty well.
Im staying in Firenze this weekend and couldnt be happier about it.
ciao.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment