Ciao! A lot has happened since I last posted. Makes sense, I guess, seeing as it has been over a month! How is it already March 21st?! I am so happy it is finally spring, though:) It's supposed to be 75 degrees here on Thursday!!! I hope the forecast is right.
For those of you who don't know, I went home for my brother's wedding from the 4th to the 14th of March. It was so good to be home and to see all of my family. Two international flights within two weeks of each other combined with major sleep deprivation due to wedding festivites left me pretty wiped out, and I feel like I have just beent trying to get back in the swing of classes and life in Bologna since I got back. So not a whole lot of new exciting stuff going on...
One new thing though is that my roommates and I moved apartments! It worked out that they moved while I was gone, which was kind of nice for me because they moved all my stuff for me:) although it was a bit disorienting to get back to Bologna and be in a new apartment! We now live a lot closer to the University but farther from the BCSP office, on Via Delle Belle Arti (Beautiful Art Street haha). I have my own room in the new place, which has been really nice. I'm still trying to get everything unpacked and settled! I will post pix as soon as I feel like it's ready to show off:)
xoxo
21 March 2010
15 February 2010
Day 176!
Ciao!
Sorry I haven't been blogging recently. My internet cable at my house is broken, so I have to go to the BCSP office or to Mariella's house to use the internet. What a pain! I have just been going to class and hanging out with Mariella mostly. She and I were valentines yesterday, haha.
On the 13th I went on a day trip to Ferrara with Mariella and three of the new students. It was really fun, we saw a real castle, complete with a moat! We also stumbled upon a lovely little park and a cemetery. It was nice to see some green, grass, and trees for once!
Last Saturday, Mariella and I took a day trip to Venice, mostly just to go to Murano for the glass. It is Carnivale here, and Venice was packed with people decked out in masks and costumes. St. Mark's square was flooded, too, which was so weird to see! It was actually a really sunny, beautiful (almost warm!) day.
Yesterday for Valentine's Day, Mariella and I went over to Lorena and Lauren's house (two of the new semester girls). Nicole came too, and we just had a little girls night. Nothing too elaborate, but very fun. We tried to make cookies, but they ended up more like biscuits haha. Baking is hard in Italy!
Here are some pix of our day trips, enjoy!
xoxo
Sorry I haven't been blogging recently. My internet cable at my house is broken, so I have to go to the BCSP office or to Mariella's house to use the internet. What a pain! I have just been going to class and hanging out with Mariella mostly. She and I were valentines yesterday, haha.
On the 13th I went on a day trip to Ferrara with Mariella and three of the new students. It was really fun, we saw a real castle, complete with a moat! We also stumbled upon a lovely little park and a cemetery. It was nice to see some green, grass, and trees for once!
Last Saturday, Mariella and I took a day trip to Venice, mostly just to go to Murano for the glass. It is Carnivale here, and Venice was packed with people decked out in masks and costumes. St. Mark's square was flooded, too, which was so weird to see! It was actually a really sunny, beautiful (almost warm!) day.
Yesterday for Valentine's Day, Mariella and I went over to Lorena and Lauren's house (two of the new semester girls). Nicole came too, and we just had a little girls night. Nothing too elaborate, but very fun. We tried to make cookies, but they ended up more like biscuits haha. Baking is hard in Italy!
Here are some pix of our day trips, enjoy!
xoxo
02 February 2010
Day 163!
Heyyy! I start class again tomorrow:( I have really enjoyed having the past few days with NOTHING to do!!! My friend Alyssa from IU came and stayed with me last weekend. She is studying in Florence this semester, so hopefully we will get to see a lot more of each other before the year is out! We have had more snow this weekend! It's so pretty when it's falling, but I really am OVER the winter, ready for spring to come along. We found a place to move that is not too far away from where we live now. It's on Via Delle Belle Arti, it's kinda old and really dirty right now, but I will get to have my own room there so that will be nice I guess. We are planning on being moved in by the beginning of March. I finally took pictures of my apartment where I have been living for the past five months! Check out the pix on Facebook!
XOXO
XOXO
27 January 2010
Day 157!
Ciao! I am FINALLY done with my first semester! I had my oral exam for my class at the University of Bologna (contemporary Italian literature) on Monday. It feels soooo good to have that out of the way. I was really nervous beforehand, and I think that may have affected my Italian. It seems like I always forget how to talk when I'm under pressure. I got a 24 out of 30, which is equivalent to a C+. Not a great grade, but I honestly don't even care! I just needed to get the exam out of the way and finish this semester. Now I have a little bit of free time. One of my classes for next semester starts February 3, a week from today. It's really cold and snowy here. It snowed all day yesterday, and all of it stuck. Makes me just want to stay curled up inside all day!
xoxo
xoxo
20 January 2010
Day 150!
150 days!!!! Wow. Sorry I haven't been around (again...). I've been super busy with the new kids being here, writing a paper for my cinema class, and attempting to study for my literature exam. There are I think 24 new kids here for this semester. It's so overwhelming to be around them, because we only had 16 in our batch. We had a welcome dinner last week and a pizza party with the program. It's fun to meet them and to think about how much more I know about Bologna than they do right now! haha.
I've been really stressed out other than that. This paper is almost done, I just need one of my Italian roommates to proofread it because my Italian grammar is definitely not perfect. And I am so nervous for my oral exam for literature! I have been trying to study, but there is just so much material! I have pretty much accepted the fact that I am not going to do well, I just want this semester to be OVER so I can get a fresh start on the next one.
Next semester I will be taking art history, history of the italian language, and philosophy of religion. The classes sound interesting, but hard. One class starts Feb 3rd, one Feb 9th, and the last on Mar 1st. I was looking forward to having a week or so between my exam and my first class to be able to just chill, but unfortunately it seems that I will be house hunting then. My roommates and I found out yesterday that we have to move out within the next two months. It's a long, uninteresting story, but basically there is an issue with the way we wanted to do the contract, so our landlady is kicking us out. I'm pretty upset about it because I love where I live and who I live with. Mariella found an apartment that is SO close to me now because we wanted to live close, but I am afriad I won't be able to find anything so close this next time. The one good thing is that I'm not really on my own because all four of us are getting kicked out, so we are trying to find an entire apartment for all of us to just stick together. We are looking at a place at 5 today, so I hope it works out. Pray for me!
xoxo
I've been really stressed out other than that. This paper is almost done, I just need one of my Italian roommates to proofread it because my Italian grammar is definitely not perfect. And I am so nervous for my oral exam for literature! I have been trying to study, but there is just so much material! I have pretty much accepted the fact that I am not going to do well, I just want this semester to be OVER so I can get a fresh start on the next one.
Next semester I will be taking art history, history of the italian language, and philosophy of religion. The classes sound interesting, but hard. One class starts Feb 3rd, one Feb 9th, and the last on Mar 1st. I was looking forward to having a week or so between my exam and my first class to be able to just chill, but unfortunately it seems that I will be house hunting then. My roommates and I found out yesterday that we have to move out within the next two months. It's a long, uninteresting story, but basically there is an issue with the way we wanted to do the contract, so our landlady is kicking us out. I'm pretty upset about it because I love where I live and who I live with. Mariella found an apartment that is SO close to me now because we wanted to live close, but I am afriad I won't be able to find anything so close this next time. The one good thing is that I'm not really on my own because all four of us are getting kicked out, so we are trying to find an entire apartment for all of us to just stick together. We are looking at a place at 5 today, so I hope it works out. Pray for me!
xoxo
09 January 2010
Day 139!
MARIELLA IS HERE!!!!!
Ok for those of you who don't know, Mariella is one of my very best friends from IU. She is doing the same program I am, but just for the Spring semester. The program starts up on Monday, but she got here yesterday so she is crashing at my place for the weekend. I am soooo excited she's here and can't even believe she is going to be here for the whole semester with me! I mean, life was pretty great here before, but now it's PERFECT. Off to run some errands, ciao!
xoxo
Ok for those of you who don't know, Mariella is one of my very best friends from IU. She is doing the same program I am, but just for the Spring semester. The program starts up on Monday, but she got here yesterday so she is crashing at my place for the weekend. I am soooo excited she's here and can't even believe she is going to be here for the whole semester with me! I mean, life was pretty great here before, but now it's PERFECT. Off to run some errands, ciao!
xoxo
05 January 2010
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