Hungary for Turkey

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!
I have a 4 page paper due in an hour and a half so naturally I'm sitting on the internet. What am I thinking? It's Thanksgiving and my first away from my family. Sure, I've been homesick off and on but on such a family oriented day I'm really appreciating all my loved ones.

Things I miss most about today:

-Cowboy cookies

-Pumpkin Pie

-Grammy's Lap

-Dad sleeping in the middle of the floor after we eat :)

-Brendan telling stories

-Unkie in the kitchen with Jerry

-Cathy & Mom laughing together

-Auntie Jan listening intently to everyone's stories

-dried fruit

-the comic books under the coffee table

-FAMILY.

I'm going to a AUR hosted dinner tonight, but I hear they might not even have turkey! I'm making my own pumpkin pie tomorrow and am going to Assisi for a day trip on saturday.

Essays galore.. procrastination is my downfall.

VS.

GOBAMA

PRESIDENT OBAMA

I'm still in shock, and I'm so happy!

It's unbelievable hat we all came together to take a 

great turn for America! I'm so proud of us, and electing Obama is already changing out international status.

I wore my "Barack & Roll 2008" shirt yesterday on the bus from London to Paris and I was congratulated 5 times! Ev

ery newspaper I saw in london and Paris the couple days have had Barack & Michelle Obama on the cover, one cover said "Yanks very much!" hahaha...

September..

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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