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1. I am sick. I am hoping that if I drink my weight in orange juice I will get better by Friday, when I go to Stockholm. Handkercheifs are way better than tissues.
2. I'm going to Stockholm! All the websites are mostly in Swedish. It's hard to figure that place out. Hopefully when I get there it will all be clear. Plus I just like wandering aimlessly around cities and happening across cool things and taking photos, so I guess I won't have to be able to navigate it that well. I'm staying with a couple from couchsurfing, they seem really nice, I think I will like them. (And I'm pretty sure they won't try to make out with me!) I wish I were going to be there for more than two days. I'm getting there Friday and leaving really early Sunday morning- I'm thinking of just taking the bus or whatever from the city to the airport late Saturday night rather than getting up at 3 in the morning and trying to go when public transit isn't running. StockholmStockholmStockholmStockholmStockholm!
3. I love drawing! Sketchbook is my favorite class right now. I feel like I'm learning and improving so much every week. But sometimes it is hard to listen to 3 hours of everything that I'm doing wrong. Apparently I draw like I'm from the 14th century, when they were just figuring out how to put bodies together. I guess that is pretty apt, since I AM just learning how to put bodies together. Actually today I went from 14th century to 15th century, so that's good (apparently). But really, I secretly am not that into Michaelangelo style bodies (why are there SO MANY MUSCLES? Gross.) so I don't know that I necessarily want to move into the 16th century.
Also- surprise- I draw people like they're architecture. My teacher told me to draw less like Mies van der Rohe and more like Frank Gehry, which I think is kind of amusing since the buildings I like are way more curvy and gestural than all those boxy Bauhaus things. But I guess I still draw very orderly curvy buildings, not gestural curvy buildings. Anyway, I want to be a great drawer. I learned at my lecture tonight that Cezanne was a terrible drawer when he was 20, and only became great when he was in his 40s. So there is still hope for me.
4. I feel like I should try to stay in Italy as long as possible. But every time I think about going back to the states earlier, going to Marlboro for graduation and then just building stuff at the animal sanctuary, I want to immediately change my plane ticket and come home as soon as possible. I feel really lame about this. Where is my sense of adventure? I love Rome. Part of me totally wants to come back and live here permanently. But it is not home, and I just wanna go home right now.
5. Although I would really like a break from being a student, I am excited (theoretically) about coming back to Marlboro in the fall and doing Plan. I am excited about the class that I want to teach. But I keep not sending my proposed syllabus to Tim, because what if he hates it and doesn't want to sponsor it?
6. I really want to know about racism in Italy.
7. Although Italians only wear black and grey and brown, they desperately want more color in their lives. I get one or more comments on my purple hair every day. Sometimes it's annoying, but sometimes it's really amusing.
8. Italian teachers love telling me weird things about anarchism. Apparently anarchists do not really exist.
2. I'm going to Stockholm! All the websites are mostly in Swedish. It's hard to figure that place out. Hopefully when I get there it will all be clear. Plus I just like wandering aimlessly around cities and happening across cool things and taking photos, so I guess I won't have to be able to navigate it that well. I'm staying with a couple from couchsurfing, they seem really nice, I think I will like them. (And I'm pretty sure they won't try to make out with me!) I wish I were going to be there for more than two days. I'm getting there Friday and leaving really early Sunday morning- I'm thinking of just taking the bus or whatever from the city to the airport late Saturday night rather than getting up at 3 in the morning and trying to go when public transit isn't running. StockholmStockholmStockholmStockholmStockholm!
3. I love drawing! Sketchbook is my favorite class right now. I feel like I'm learning and improving so much every week. But sometimes it is hard to listen to 3 hours of everything that I'm doing wrong. Apparently I draw like I'm from the 14th century, when they were just figuring out how to put bodies together. I guess that is pretty apt, since I AM just learning how to put bodies together. Actually today I went from 14th century to 15th century, so that's good (apparently). But really, I secretly am not that into Michaelangelo style bodies (why are there SO MANY MUSCLES? Gross.) so I don't know that I necessarily want to move into the 16th century.
Also- surprise- I draw people like they're architecture. My teacher told me to draw less like Mies van der Rohe and more like Frank Gehry, which I think is kind of amusing since the buildings I like are way more curvy and gestural than all those boxy Bauhaus things. But I guess I still draw very orderly curvy buildings, not gestural curvy buildings. Anyway, I want to be a great drawer. I learned at my lecture tonight that Cezanne was a terrible drawer when he was 20, and only became great when he was in his 40s. So there is still hope for me.
4. I feel like I should try to stay in Italy as long as possible. But every time I think about going back to the states earlier, going to Marlboro for graduation and then just building stuff at the animal sanctuary, I want to immediately change my plane ticket and come home as soon as possible. I feel really lame about this. Where is my sense of adventure? I love Rome. Part of me totally wants to come back and live here permanently. But it is not home, and I just wanna go home right now.
5. Although I would really like a break from being a student, I am excited (theoretically) about coming back to Marlboro in the fall and doing Plan. I am excited about the class that I want to teach. But I keep not sending my proposed syllabus to Tim, because what if he hates it and doesn't want to sponsor it?
6. I really want to know about racism in Italy.
7. Although Italians only wear black and grey and brown, they desperately want more color in their lives. I get one or more comments on my purple hair every day. Sometimes it's annoying, but sometimes it's really amusing.
8. Italian teachers love telling me weird things about anarchism. Apparently anarchists do not really exist.