Donna Di Cuore

Since Tuesday the girls and I have explored Florence quite a bit. Dani and I took a trip to teh church located and is the namesake for the main trainstation here in Florence, Santa Maria Novella. It's a giant black and white checkered thang with frescoes and chapels on every side. We had to analyze a fresco for our class and went to inspect it in person. Walking back to school we spotted some serious Carnivale leftovers, namely the confetti that runs like water through all the streets in downtown florence. The sunset was especially pretty coming home on the viale.

Thursday was a big day as we held auditions for "Lysistrata." We are almost completely done casting the show and it should prove to be quite the quiet riot here on campus. Many freshmen and upperclassmen showed up but we still have one more audition date on tuesday. Can't wait to read it through with the cast!

Friday morning Dani and I went to a fresco making workshop for class. It was truly therapeutic and so much fun. The teacher was a Doctor Pascuzzi or something. He knew a lot about art and how frescos were made back in the old days. We only got to make a portrait of Saint Francis from a giotto fresco (and mine looks like a character from Beavis & Butthead). EItherway hte doctor mixed freshwater sand and lime paste and then mixed a bunch of natural pigments together for paint.
Friday we had TOFU at lunch. Please see photo below. I was beyond happy.
Dani and i spent the evening casting the show. It was a fun time reading the script and stereotyping our friends and acquaintances so that they'd fill their roles. Then Ginger and I realized that Guinness beer's are all equipped with some funny little plastic ball.. for reasons we aren't so sure about yet.

On saturday Lindsay and i took a little field trip through parts of florence i'd never ventured to before. I found my future home, as well as a man in a space-age glass triangle creeping on all the people on the street... We walked back to school a whole new way and stopped at the esselunga grocery store for some quick snacks. Here is where i met the creeper of all creepers. He was trying to talk sweet to me in the shampoo aisle. Then he stared at me from the check out line out until we were a block away from eachother and i was getting on the bus. Too bad he was so creepy, he was kinda cute. Saturday night we got a glimpse into dani's gymnist past.

Then this evening we took a little adventure up to Fiesole (yes, dad, Again!) and we ate at the only decent indian food restaurant for miles. It was amazing and we each got a poem written for us. The bus ride back was a wild ride and now I'm trying to wrap this up so I can read a million pages and write a million more!
Ciao a tutti. Have a great week.

Confetti in the Streets

Viale Sunset

Thumbing through the script.

The dutch armani ad meets the dirty mess.

Cappuccino in the classroom. The Cafe man loves me, obvs

My fresco

My Tofu Lunch. You might wanna click on this one to fully
appreciate it's wonderfulness.

Yes, I am beaming from the tofu.

CASTING!

Birra!
treasures of the 9T9

Crazy triangle man, 10 o clock.My future home


THe "Messican" food aisle. at the grocery
Dani does the Worm
INDIAN FOOD!
TIMES 2
BUS RIDE!"A Diewon
Donna Di Cuore
Cuore forte
Cuore del pulsore intenso
cuore che é generoso
e sognatore
cuore sincero
e romantico"
"to Diewon
woman of heart
strong heart
heart of great heartbeats?
cuore that is generous
and dreamer
sincere heart
and romantic"