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dramaturgy) wrote2007-04-10 11:27 am
dramaturgy) wrote2007-04-10 11:27 am
"There are names that you just can't use anymore. Like Barney. And Adolf."
I was supposed to register for classes today, but it turns out that I'm going to be over the five credits that are "allowed" so I have to get permission from the registrar and, blah. I also have a bug bite one one finger that's so aggravated I can't even fit my ring over it. Enough complaining! I have fun pictures to show you from Easter - and well, Saturday.
Saturday was a fun adventure in wandering, as my Saturdays tend to be. I'm probably not going to do too many side trips here in Italy for the pure virtue of the fact that 1. I want to relax in the time I have off, 2. there is a lot of work assigned so I don't know when teachers expect us to go see all these wonderful things they tell us about AND sleep, and 3. I really don't want to. x_x But I will wander about the city!
I think this is a street off the Piazza del Duomo, maybe walking from the Piazza di San Marco? Eh.
It's Dante's house! Well, according to Ellen it's not actually Dante's house, but a house set up like it were Dante's house. Eh, whatever.
This is the Piazza di Santa Maria Novella. SO PRETTY. I laid in the sun for a little bit, and it was warm and lovely and :x
That's the facade of the church covered in scaffolding that we're never going to get to see. Boo.
This is something I noticed: a lot of food places will put up signs with words that Americans will recognize as good. "Fresh." "Beer." "Bar." "Cold drinks." Such as the Black Molly!
! EASTER EGG HUNT ZOMG!! She hid 32 eggs outside. How? I don't know. There really aren't that many places for them to be. But this is everyone looking for them.
Megan and Jamie!
Janet cutting the dove cake. She was getting vicious with that thing. Allison does a killer impression of Janet cutting the cake. (When I say killer, I mean I laughed until I nearly died.)
Christian and John being very concerned with the champagne. :D Yummy.
We also had big chocolate easter eggs. x_x
Everyone else outside with their chocolate egg.
The views from Ellen's terrace:
That's the Duomo.
That tower surrounded in scaffolding is the bell tower of Santa Croce, and you can see San Mineato right behind it on the hill.
My Mona Lisa Smile. :)
Monday was a little easier. We had Renaissance in the morning (if the climb into her flat doesn't kill me, Dante will), and then Art History in the afternoon. We went into the Duomo and the Baptistry. I only took pictures in the Baptistry, though, because I was getting dizzy from all the looking up Janet was making us do.
Angeli on the mosaic ceiling. It's a BEAUTIFUL ceiling.
South doors. These were done in the 1330's-ish, right before the Black Death.
The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII, who was allowed to be buried in the Baptistry because he got the city a finger of John the Baptist himself!!1! Or, as Janet said it, "He gave the Baptistry the finger."
Best Day Ever.
Saturday was a fun adventure in wandering, as my Saturdays tend to be. I'm probably not going to do too many side trips here in Italy for the pure virtue of the fact that 1. I want to relax in the time I have off, 2. there is a lot of work assigned so I don't know when teachers expect us to go see all these wonderful things they tell us about AND sleep, and 3. I really don't want to. x_x But I will wander about the city!
I think this is a street off the Piazza del Duomo, maybe walking from the Piazza di San Marco? Eh.
It's Dante's house! Well, according to Ellen it's not actually Dante's house, but a house set up like it were Dante's house. Eh, whatever.
This is the Piazza di Santa Maria Novella. SO PRETTY. I laid in the sun for a little bit, and it was warm and lovely and :x
That's the facade of the church covered in scaffolding that we're never going to get to see. Boo.
This is something I noticed: a lot of food places will put up signs with words that Americans will recognize as good. "Fresh." "Beer." "Bar." "Cold drinks." Such as the Black Molly!
! EASTER EGG HUNT ZOMG!! She hid 32 eggs outside. How? I don't know. There really aren't that many places for them to be. But this is everyone looking for them.
Megan and Jamie!
Janet cutting the dove cake. She was getting vicious with that thing. Allison does a killer impression of Janet cutting the cake. (When I say killer, I mean I laughed until I nearly died.)
Christian and John being very concerned with the champagne. :D Yummy.
We also had big chocolate easter eggs. x_x
Everyone else outside with their chocolate egg.
The views from Ellen's terrace:
That's the Duomo.
That tower surrounded in scaffolding is the bell tower of Santa Croce, and you can see San Mineato right behind it on the hill.
My Mona Lisa Smile. :)
Monday was a little easier. We had Renaissance in the morning (if the climb into her flat doesn't kill me, Dante will), and then Art History in the afternoon. We went into the Duomo and the Baptistry. I only took pictures in the Baptistry, though, because I was getting dizzy from all the looking up Janet was making us do.
Angeli on the mosaic ceiling. It's a BEAUTIFUL ceiling.
South doors. These were done in the 1330's-ish, right before the Black Death.
The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII, who was allowed to be buried in the Baptistry because he got the city a finger of John the Baptist himself!!1! Or, as Janet said it, "He gave the Baptistry the finger."
Best Day Ever.
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Two questions though.
1)What's the Black Molly, and do you have a picture? (My name is Molly... so I got super excited)
2)Who is the cute blonde boy in the picture from easter?
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Assuming you mean the one that I didn't name (John), his name is Eric. He goes to Macalester (I think I totally butchered that spelling) College, and is pretty nice. Laid back. Although he's a history (and theatre) major who hates writing papers, so I think he chose the wrong major. :)