At first, Rome was utterly shocking to me. A much more modern, busier city than I expected with crazy scooters, perpindicularly parked smartcars, and grafitti everywhere. But what is truly endearing about Rome is all the windy, cobblestoned streets that lead to giant elaborate landmarks like the Trevi Fountain, especially impressive at night. My favorite so far is the Vatican, which is really close to where I live. Hopefully the Pope and I will be on a first name basis soon.
On Sunday the whole program went to a beautiful hill town called Todi. This was the first time that I was brave enough to take the camera out. I was pretty stoked to see the Piazza Garibaldi, as well as several cats. There's this weird thing with cats and Italy, I don't get it, but everywhere you go you can buy postcards with cats sitting on or next to famous landmarks. After Todi, we went to an estate where we ate a traditional Italian wedding feast.
I started classes on Monday, and I'm still working out my schedule. However, my Italian and Adv. Photo professors are so great. There are only four students in my photo class and we're going to work with medium and large format cameras. I also got a job teaching English to a 6 year old named Mateo. I haven't met him yet, but hopefully he'll teach me some Italian.
I live with two girls in a "residence" that is a mix between a cheap motel and an apartment. One goes to Penn State and the other goes to Bowdoin. It's pretty weird that people are shocked (as in "That's so far away!") when I tell them I'm from Portland, and more than one person has thought that I meant Maine.
Keeping a blog feels a tad pretentious to me, but I'm going to try it. More pictures soon!
Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to the next four years.
Ciao,
Grace
what do you mean by "looking forward to the next four years"? did you mean "months" instead? anyways, Miya and I are going to blogger-stalk you, hope that's okay. also, we should hang out pronto! see you tomorrow at digital photog!
ReplyDeleteGuys, I meant that I hope everyone is looking forward to Obama's first term. Jeez!
ReplyDeleteugh. You make me so angry!! I am glad thnigs are going well and i think that it is funny that you have a blog but i will read it none the less. talk to you on skype soon.
ReplyDeleteheck of pretentious
ReplyDeletehaha, jokes aside thanks for the pictures, i just got them.
i miss you, thanks for blogging so I can stalk you for the next few months. also, whatever, obama's not even that cool.
ReplyDelete-Alex
grace this is your schmink. jk jk everyone is your schmink.
ReplyDeleteit's jess. look at the siiiiize of you! you crazy euro girl, you. you know i'm jealous. community college is good, but i'm sure it ain't no rome. and mateo sounds like he'll be a good underage friend. even possibly a new schmink. but no schmninkin around with him. that would be... wrong.
love you.
i'll be runnin up that hill...