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Europe » Italy » Marche » Ascoli Piceno March 29th 2004

Hi All, Today started as usual with studio, I think they require us to be at studio all the time because it is their way of babysitting us without saying it. So after we did that we had a very interesting walking tour today. We leared all about A.P. and the historical significance. It seems we are not the only school that travels here to do studies with the Italain school. They have another group from California comming in after we leave. More people will be participating in that program. I am not sure if they are fluent in Italain but there are posters up eveywhere. So back to the tour, the fourth year students got us in a little bit of trouble, they were laughing and playing during the tour. It seems there were taking ... read more

Independant Proposals

Europe » Italy » Marche » Ascoli Piceno March 28th 2004

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Hi All, Well I can say I am getting these all caught up - tommorrow early monday for you all, I should have it all done with pictures and everything. The internet place is open for longer period of time. I have to do a sketch book review in a few mintunes so I need at least twenty to make it to the Popilo on time. So today was kind of laid back, I am sorry to say another not so exciting day. But I can say that the scenery here is much more fun to sit and people watch in. It turns out that the Popilo actually becomes quite lively after mass on Sundays. You see all of grandparents out with children, sorry there is not much of a sunday school program here it seems....lol ... read more

Migranes are the same everywhere

Europe » Italy » Marche » Ascoli Piceno March 27th 2004

rife38

Hi All, Well I tried to sleep of a migrane and took medicine and ended up being out of commission all day. I slept and rested. So I have nothing to say today except the insides of hotel rooms look the same all over. Talk to later,... read more

Groups are assigned

Europe » Italy » Marche » Ascoli Piceno March 26th 2004

rife38

Hi All, After the walk and the stairs and catching the lungs we are in class. We waited around for several hours while they gathered more and more Italian students and kept reassigning groups. It ends up that we have eight groups of students, the size varies from 3 - 5 americans with one italian student. I am working with Seth & Cathline. Our Italian counterpart is Claudio. He seems nice but better yet he has AutoCad and a lap top - which is essentail for cutting our working time down so we scored. Some groups are not so lucky and have to do everything by hand. I feel for them. But that would not be my problem. I though getting a smaller group would be good but we spend more time 'discussing' then we do ... read more

Field Trip

Europe » Italy » Marche » Ascoli Piceno March 25th 2004

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rife38

Hi All, Today we met with some of the Italain students. They speak little to no English. So we will all bought Italain to English dictionaries. We have found that we are comic relif to the locals. When we ask or point to something they say something we do not understand to the nearest Italian and they all laugh. But I do not feel so bad becasue several universities use this town as a home base to work with university. We are not the only ones being made fun of. Well we found how we would have to walk to school. We have a 40 minute walk to the stairs from hell. They did not look so bad a first then we realized they would never end. After we got to the top of one flight ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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