Oh, so behind on the social stuff
Ah well, that's life.
I decided to do this early this week since I seem to miss my chance during the weekends and I needed a break from TESONE (tesina=little written assignment, add -one to anything and it makes it huge) writing anyway.
This week's not been fun, but it's almost over and by the end of next week I'll finally be able to relax and sleep, and maybe *gasp* sew or something. Watch a movie. Paint my nails. Play my mandolin. Hell, ANYTHING. lol. I spent last weekend writing my Art History paper, which was pretty much finished by Monday night, with some final tweaks which happened between Tuesday and today. It's 10 pages including a couple of images and the bibliography, it's all in Italian, AND I used Passato Remoto, which is a past past past form of verbs that is so obscure for a foreigner to learn that we usually don't. In fact, we were told not to ever worry about using it, it's so out there. The only people who use it regularly are Southerners, and Tuscany's in the North-Central region. I still used it. ^_^ I think it's probably one of the better papers I've written too, which is really cool to be able to say about something written in Italian. Anyway, I'll stop gloating for now, but I think I'm going to be proud of this one for a while.
I turned that one in today and now I'm 2.5 pages into my second 8-10 page paper for my Costume class and I've not even started my 5 page paper for Stylistics, but we'll get there. I have until tomorrow for the 5 page one and until Saturday for the other. lol...some things never change.
Thanks to the workload for the week, I skipped choir Tuesday and will do so tonight, I skipped my volunteer work today (calling them to tell them I'd not be there, of coarse), and I'm running on a good deal less sleep than I appreciate.
The fun thing for the week was that Smith took us to see Madame Butterfly last night. (of coarse, it was overshadowed by the mountains of work we all had waiting for us, but it was obligatory so we had to just deal with it and enjoy ourselves :3) We had a rediculously long seminar on it on Monday, so we were ready to see the real thing. Although it wasn't an NYC Lincoln Center performance, it was lovely, made me laugh and cry in the right spots, and as usual when I go to the theatre, made me want to be a stage set designer for the rest of my life. It was really neat that I understood most of what was being said (they had subtitles on a screen above the stage--or would that be sopratitles?) even though it was in really poetic, somewhat older Italian than is normally spoken in Florence. I mean, you get the random person reciting Dante in the middle of a piazza from time to time, but other than that Florentine is a bastardization of the poetic Italian language. So, that I followed everything and even caught some of the nuances of things was exciting.
Other than that, I've been enjoying the fact that I keep getting news from the States about how cold it is there right now and that I'm not in it. The high today was about 60 degrees, and that's only a little warmer than it has been all month. You wanna know the kicker? My Art History class went on a visit today to a couple of cloisters to see frescoes by Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo, and on the way to one my professor mentioned that this is an unusually long and cold winter. I still can't quite get my brain around that one. I am enjoying this break from the New England winter though....brrrr. Good luck to everyone back in the real cold!
Okay, now I'm going to eat some dinner and get back to work. After the papers are finished I have a tempera a uovo painting to finish and an Art History exam to study for, so this weekend's not going to be the fun excursion to Venice I'd hoped for, but oh well. Next weekend. Gotta go to Venezia during Carnivale (a.k.a. Mardi Gras celebration), even if that means missing the free ride to the Cinque Terre next weekend! Ok, Ciao e abbracci a tutti!!!!
I decided to do this early this week since I seem to miss my chance during the weekends and I needed a break from TESONE (tesina=little written assignment, add -one to anything and it makes it huge) writing anyway.
This week's not been fun, but it's almost over and by the end of next week I'll finally be able to relax and sleep, and maybe *gasp* sew or something. Watch a movie. Paint my nails. Play my mandolin. Hell, ANYTHING. lol. I spent last weekend writing my Art History paper, which was pretty much finished by Monday night, with some final tweaks which happened between Tuesday and today. It's 10 pages including a couple of images and the bibliography, it's all in Italian, AND I used Passato Remoto, which is a past past past form of verbs that is so obscure for a foreigner to learn that we usually don't. In fact, we were told not to ever worry about using it, it's so out there. The only people who use it regularly are Southerners, and Tuscany's in the North-Central region. I still used it. ^_^ I think it's probably one of the better papers I've written too, which is really cool to be able to say about something written in Italian. Anyway, I'll stop gloating for now, but I think I'm going to be proud of this one for a while.
I turned that one in today and now I'm 2.5 pages into my second 8-10 page paper for my Costume class and I've not even started my 5 page paper for Stylistics, but we'll get there. I have until tomorrow for the 5 page one and until Saturday for the other. lol...some things never change.
Thanks to the workload for the week, I skipped choir Tuesday and will do so tonight, I skipped my volunteer work today (calling them to tell them I'd not be there, of coarse), and I'm running on a good deal less sleep than I appreciate.
The fun thing for the week was that Smith took us to see Madame Butterfly last night. (of coarse, it was overshadowed by the mountains of work we all had waiting for us, but it was obligatory so we had to just deal with it and enjoy ourselves :3) We had a rediculously long seminar on it on Monday, so we were ready to see the real thing. Although it wasn't an NYC Lincoln Center performance, it was lovely, made me laugh and cry in the right spots, and as usual when I go to the theatre, made me want to be a stage set designer for the rest of my life. It was really neat that I understood most of what was being said (they had subtitles on a screen above the stage--or would that be sopratitles?) even though it was in really poetic, somewhat older Italian than is normally spoken in Florence. I mean, you get the random person reciting Dante in the middle of a piazza from time to time, but other than that Florentine is a bastardization of the poetic Italian language. So, that I followed everything and even caught some of the nuances of things was exciting.
Other than that, I've been enjoying the fact that I keep getting news from the States about how cold it is there right now and that I'm not in it. The high today was about 60 degrees, and that's only a little warmer than it has been all month. You wanna know the kicker? My Art History class went on a visit today to a couple of cloisters to see frescoes by Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo, and on the way to one my professor mentioned that this is an unusually long and cold winter. I still can't quite get my brain around that one. I am enjoying this break from the New England winter though....brrrr. Good luck to everyone back in the real cold!
Okay, now I'm going to eat some dinner and get back to work. After the papers are finished I have a tempera a uovo painting to finish and an Art History exam to study for, so this weekend's not going to be the fun excursion to Venice I'd hoped for, but oh well. Next weekend. Gotta go to Venezia during Carnivale (a.k.a. Mardi Gras celebration), even if that means missing the free ride to the Cinque Terre next weekend! Ok, Ciao e abbracci a tutti!!!!