Thursday Jan. 21st 2010
Today was a long day outside. For Sketching and Drawing we spent the whole two hours at the Piazza just down the road from my apartment on Via Dei Servi. We had to pick a spot in the piazza and draw what we saw. By the end of the class my hands were numb.. lets just say it was pretty cold outside. For Italian Art we went to Piazza Signore and Piazza Republicca where we talked about the history of Florence as a Republic and a capital, the rise and fall of Rome, Dante the poet and the Renaissance, and the Democratic system in Europe. It was a very interesting lecture, besides the fact that it was kinda hard to take notes because we were outside standing the whole time while listening to Rocky. For Studio I had to rush to the Fortezza da Basso where our site is this semester. We were their for nearly four hours. During this time we watched one of our professors (prof. Ponsi) do two watercolor paintings of the fort- each in a different location. He is very good at painting. He also gave us a walking tour of the fort and we took pictures and documented the site for our site analysis that is due on Tuesday. After studio I grabbed some Chinese food from a restaurant right next to our apartment. I went to the red garter and twice night club tonight. The red garter was a very cool place- live music on a stage with multi-story seating and a bar area. Twice was packed with italianos and American students (which wasn’t a surprise). I got lost on the way back home so I called Alyse (not that I was scared or anything) but I finally made it back safely!
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