So I have survived my first month here in Rome!
I've been so preoccupied getting acclimated to life here, I've abandoned the blog! I live on Villa Pamphili, a 15 minute walk from school, where I walk to every morning around 9 and get a cappuccino and cornetto for breakfast. From school it is a 10 minute bus ride to the Colosseum! -buses are my main mode of transport if I'm not walking. there is A LOT of walking..-
It is so incredible and unbelievable to be able to take a bus to Piazza Venezia and just start walking, you will undoubtedly run into a beautiful historical monument or church, not to mention the fact that everything around you is history!
My art classes, Art of Renaissance & Baroque and Art of Modernity, are exactly what I hoped for when I pictured coming here. My renaissance & Baroque class (which is taught by a Professor Borghese!) is onsite, so we meet in a new location each monday and walk to churches, museums, etc. for three hours- the first class we met at the Colosseum and this monday we met at the Pantheon! My Arts of Modernity class is also three hours, but we are in a classroom. As impossible as that sounds, my Professor is unbelievably passionate about each piece he shows us and each class is overwhelming in the best sense.
My other 3 classes are Beginning Italian, Writing Workshop, and First Year Seminar class.
I'm loving them all, and really enjoying the time in between them- it's a lot easier to keep on top of the work!
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Sally, sorry for stalking your blog, but that's unfair, man! I wish I could go on weekly excursions to famous examples of architecture for my History of Western Arch. class! Seriously, everything we have studied thus far has been in either Florence or Rome. Gah, I wish I would have paid more attention when we went.
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