a beautiful pool in the Tuscan countryside....

School begins

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September 4th 2006
I have to try to remember some of the interesting things that I have done since the last time I updated this...apologies for the disrupted temporality of my thoughts.... Yesterday was my first day of school! For the first three weeks of the semester, we only have intensive language classes, so I go to school every day from 9:30 until between 4 and 5 (with a pretty hefty Itlalian-style lunch break ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Siena

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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