florence

A few things:

I went to Florence with some friends from the school. There's a bus that runs there every hour (although it seems like it's always late) so we spent the day just walking around. It was definitely a lot different than when I went with my parents last year. I think because it was the weekend there were double the amount of tourists. It's much more crowded than Siena and it was more of a hassle just to walk from point A to point B without having to elbow people. I remembered it as being totally different but it was cool to be able to recognize some buildings. It's a short bus ride so I'll probably go back a lot and we go there with the art history class a few times too.

It's not raining today but it's still cold.

We picked classes today and I'm pretty sure I'm taking two art history classes, book art, and Italian.

Sunday I didn't feel like going out so I woke up late and then read Cyrano de Bergerac all day (meaning 2pm on) because some former student left it at Fulvia's house. It's a great play. I forgot how much I liked it when I read it for 9th grade. In some ways I admire Cyrano's character. He has intense pride and integrity as well as being but then I want to shake him and say " WHY DID YOU WAIT FOURTEEN YEARS TO TELL HER? YOU COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL. but no." It's all very frustrating but that must be why I like it. I guess it wouldn't exactly have the same effect if it all ended peachy-keen. It's hard to find cheap books in English here so I have to read what I can get although the school has a small library.