Blogs from Perugia, Umbria, Italy, Europe - page 12

Getting back into Perugia yesterday was such a relief. Today we started classes back up. My Italian disappeared startlingly quickly over the break. I almost started speaking in Spanish, and nearly threw out a "merci" when Francesco handed out a worksheet. Pathetic. It's nice to just be relaxing. I thought I'd put an entry up and just add some photos that I didn't put up before. My midterms went okay, so far. I have a feeling the political science midterm didn't go too well, just like Renaissance Art, but the two psychology midterms and Italian went well. That's all the news I have. Today, for the first time, I started to get an almost nostalgic feeling about how we're now past the half-way point, and study abroad will be coming to an end soon. I'm going ... read more

I'll write first about last weekend since I haven't done that yet. I went to Florence with my Renaissance Art class, or, rather, the other section of the Renaissance Art class since I missed my class's trip the weekend before to go to Tuscany. It was interesting being in Florence again; I think I'm getting pretty used to it. It's a nice town, but I think Perugia is a better place to study abroad. Julianna and I were both going, so we left together in the morning, and almost missed our train. Luckily, the train was 5 minutes late, so we had no problems. We went to the Uffizi museum, the second time for me, and our professor showed us around. It was nice to have a guide in the museum, and really fun looking at ... read more

So yesterday was a lovely day indeed....we were surrounded by chocolate. We left Florence and arrived in Perugia the day before. After taking the wrong bus, ( which actually turned out to benefit us in the end because it showed us right where the Chocolate Festival would be taking place the next day) we finally got settled into our hostel, and went to the market for some food to make up some grub....we selected fresh pasta and broccoli....though very plain and simple, it was one of the best meals ever...I just get worn out going out to eat all the time. The next morning we ate breakfast in preparation for a day of indulging in some fine chocolate. We arrived at the festival around 10:30am I'd say....and there were vendors everywhere! Chocolate from all over the ... read more

I'm sorry again for not updating sooner. I know some of you check more frequently than I update, and I don't mean to leave you wanting. Fun fact about tonight: two of my roommates, Shannon and Julianna are on Italian TV right now. They're with their Culture and Society class in Rome apparently in the TV studio watching this political discussion show. It's all in Italian and I don't really understand it. I always feel like my Italian is getting so much better when I'm sitting in Italian class, but once I get out into the world, I don't really understand much. We learned future tense last week, and this week we did conditional and futuro anteriore, which is used in situations like "once you have done ____, you will ____." Exciting stuff. Conditional is also ... read more

Oh my gosh. I am inlove with Perugia. Its like boulder and Girona and everything fabulous. In the hills between Rome and Florence lies this university-feel town filled with students studying abroad and chocolates. A friend from freshman year Jessie is studying there and I was so happy to see her. Her roommates were all super cool and amazing and actually everyone i met from the program seemed great. The crazyness is that while they are all studying abroad they seem to party ridiculousnessly every night and wake up the next morning with their life in waht feels like shambles. I had had only a few wild nights so far so i deemed this a night to go crazy....... and geez did i go nuts. infact i dont even really want to talk about it. haha ... read more