So, it's finally arrived -- my final night in Florence. I feel very strange and weird and sad and homesick all at once, but given that I only have 6 minutes of internet time left, I'll save the exact description for later. I'm spending tonight with Jeti and we're exchanging Christmas gifts and having dinner. I'm going to miss him terribly, but I ( Read more... )

Yeah, I figured I should make a to-do list today, since I had lots of stuff to do today. So, as of today, I accomplished ( Read more... )

Jeti and I took a trip to Fiesole today. Fiesole is a little town not far outside of Florence (in fact, a regular Florence bus takes you there). I'd already been there once before when I first got here, but this time we went to take pictures (many of which actually came out pretty nicely, even the ones of me). They have some Roman and Etruscan ( Read more... )

Ciao a tutti.

This weekend was quite the busy one. First, on Saturday, I went with my da Vinci class to Milan to see the Sforza Palace (where da Vinci lived and worked for a number of years for the duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza) and then to Santa Maria delle Grazie to see The Last SupperThen, on Sunday, I decided to wanted to go to Padua (Padova ( Read more... )

Here are some pictures from my class trip to Arezzo, Sansepolcro and Assisi and of my Sunday in Florence with Jeti and at a soccer game.

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Here are some pictures from this weekend and from yesterday when I went to see David with my class.

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I'm just killing time before I go meet Jeti for (a very late) dinner. I went to school today and went with my da Vinci class to see Michelangelo's David in the Accademia. It was awesome to finally get to see him -- the symbol of Florentine republican freedom and virtue, which once stood outside the Palazzo Vecchio, the city's civic center. We ( Read more... )

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So, here are my pictures from Halloween. Jeti, Jen, Jen's boyfriend Simon and I went to eat at one of the places on our meal voucher list and then we went to this caffe/pub place to drink soda and sit around and talk and stuff. It was fun, but my hat was swiped many a time, much to my dismay...

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Here are some pictures from when I went to Vinci with my Leonardo da Vinci class. We saw the museum of his machines and then his birthplace and childhood home.

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