Finally an update

It took a while to get on a computer I didn't have to pay to use, sorry I haven't been posting sooner. Italy is beautiful, and especially gorgeous when you have all of your luggage and a full nights rest. The apartment I'm in is in the heart of the old city, just south of the Duomo and just north of the Piazza della Signora and Uffizi Museum. Also, apparently I live right by the house that Dante Aligheri was born in, and now it's a museum as well. I really can't wait to get the museum card so I can go inside these places. Eva and I walked all over the place seeing this stuff when we got lost on my first day here, but it was still fun.

And surprisingly, the apartment is enormous, for what ever reason I was expecting something much smaller, but it's really lovely. I do wish I had brought my perscription sunglasses though, there are no clouds in the sky...EVER, on the plane over from Amsterdam there was clouds stretching out in every direction like the plane was flying over the Artic, then all of a sudden all we could see all of the land was covered by fields and houses and no trees except for on the mountains, and all of the clouds had just stopped, right over the Dolomite mountains which is basically the northern border for Italy.

Saturday was orientation, safety talks, and adding and dropping classes, nothing exciting but all the necessary crap. I was still pretty jet-lagged so I dozed off during some of it, but I didn't really miss anything. After orientation we found out our luggage was finally at the airport so most of us rushed back out there to pick it up and then some back. Later on the school had everyone meet back up at 7 o'clock and we got a free 5 course dinner at some fancy resturant, the waitstaff was very accomadating to me which was really nice, and I got to meet some new people who weren't from Milwaukee, as well.

The first day of classes is half over now, my History of Florence class promises to be really entertaining, its obvious that the professor is really enthusiastic about the subject, we get to go to a lot of the sites for the classes and learn about how the political history of Florence relates so strongly with the art. Although i wasn't to happy about having to buy a textbook and notebook, I'll probably just take both back home with me I was really happy to hear we won't have to write some 5 page long paper for class either. I just hope I enjoy the painting class as much.

That's all I'm going to write for now, hopefully I'll be able to make more posts later on. PICTURES OF STUFF POSTED SOON I SWEAR.