After a much interrupted sleep (I heard every garbage truck, church bell, and gust of wind in all of Europe) I got ready for my first day of school…and my god…my school is beautiful. As silly as it sounds, I almost feel like I am going to Hogwarts. I get to take classes in an actual palace and the classes pretty much travel from class to class together. This place is magical. In my first class we only spent about half an hour sitting before my Russian teacher with a British accent who is teaching American students in Italy (still follow?), announced that we were going outside to walk around Florence. This class is going to be amazing, the city is our classroom. My ancient Roman class sounds promising since we will inevitably be taking a field trip to Rome, and of course my Italian class is going to be beyond helpful. Tomorrow I begin my drawing class and am so stoked to be sketching in Florence, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The icing on the cake for today? A delicious home cooked meal by Deb, the only adult student in the program. Not too shabby for the first day of school.
Andrea, my dear, YOU are an adult...you are 21!
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Other than that; I'm SO PLEASED, you wrote about your first day of classes. I was hoping you would, and it sounds better than I imagined. I LOVE the Russian/British/American/Italian experience and am stoked for you that Firenze is your classroom. It sounds like it couldn't get any better, but I think it will! Hot damn!
This all sounds SO wonderful! I am picturing you smiling all the time, in love with where you are and what you are doing! Bellisimo! (I have no idea if that's even a real Italian word or appropriate...sounds good to my ears, anyway.)
ReplyDeleteI am loving it here :) It is such a wonderful city. And yes, bellisimo means very beautiful, which Florence absolutely is. So it is very fitting :)
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