I have given up on the pictures for now... maybe sometime next week? (sorry Momeee)
Follow the links to find pictures and other extensive unnecessary details to the things I have seen. I won't bore you with details that I enjoy unless you want to know them!
Working backward from today, we went to Cinque Terre , more specifically Monterosso al Mare vand got some relaxing sun. I can't say that we were the most peppy group today (my roommates Alison, Alyson, and Sari) but we did have a lovely day! It was a sorry outlook when I woke up with a sore throat, and then we couldn't find our terminal at the train station. Thankfully Alison speaks enough Italian to help us out at the information desk, and I slept most of the way. I got some Ibuprophin in me and when we arrived at Cinque Terre (after changing trains in Pisa) it started to rain. We were ok with it though when we found a restaurant with five euro margaritas. After our lunch and refreshment, things started looking better... and the sun literally came out for us! We walked around a bit, enjoyed the mountainous view and the rocky beach. It had some kitty litter type sand and the water was salty and cold. We basked in the sun and just relaxed.
Yesterday we went to Pisa and Lucca for our art history class. We are always a whirlwind when we go with Helen Waterson, our professor! She is amazingly smart, she got her doctorate at Yale and expects a lot out of us (15 page research paper is looming at the end of the semester!) We trod around Italy with her sprinting ahead, talking nonstop the whole way! She is like a textbook, pointing out all the details of the art work covering each facade, altarpiece, and pulpit, telling (unnecessary?) details about saints and their slightly creepy reliquaries. At the Duomo in Lucca we got to see a complete saint, petrified, and without the usual wax face covering! Her name is Saint Zita, saint of maids and domestic servants, and she is represented by flowers.
The weekend was in short... packed! I was super lazy on Friday, sleeping until 11am and piddling around the apartment until noon. My roommates came home from school then and we had lunch together, homemade concoction of eggplant, basil, rosemary, pasta, asparagus, tomatoes. I was proud, and thought it was tasty, but I don't know how much they liked it, really!
Friday we ended up hanging out with our other SACI buddy, J, and he wanted to get dinner across the river so we wandered over there and found a really great place. They have this great cured ham, sliced so thin, served with cantelope called proscuitto a Tuscan tradition. I would have never put ham and melon together, but it was great! (I had soup, but we all tried everyone else's food)
I guess that a good update for now, without the help of pictures, there is not much else to say! Hope to get them up soon... ;)
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