loosing the street and hearing my name

A Check Up

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May 4th 2005
May 4, 2005 Scratching the chalkboard Centro Culturale, my school, still uses chalkboards. The chalk-covered hands and labor-intensive erasing that often leaves faded remnants of layer after layer of information piques my art-making self. What a sucker for the dirt of creativity. Literally. This final semester is not as lively as the other two, but our professor is intelligent and ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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... ... read more