So sorry that it took me a day to get this up, but I am having problems with internet. I was "stealing" a wireless free network that I found, and i think they found out and shut me out of it. Now I don't have wifi on my computer so I am just gonna use my roommates computers.
So Day 3...what happened?! As you can probably tell we were out a little late on Monday Night, so i slept on Tuesday until like 12:30. By the time I got up and showered it was already halfway through the day. My roommate Madison and I decided that we were hungry and wanted to try on the lunch places that was mentioned in my travel book. So we followed it to a restaurant called mario. It ended up being a small restaurant filled with Tuscaners. They sat us at a table with 2 random Italians, and I went on a whim and ordered pasta with duck sauce which ended up being fabulous. My roommate got pasta with red sauce that she said was good but definitely not as good as mine. I would for sure go back there again.
After that we went to the supermarket for miscellaneous necessities, and to the pharmacy for some nasal spray. As I mentioned before I got pink eye, but not to worry it is almost gone! As for my allergies though I am still struggling. Our professor, Pupa, said that the dust here tends to irritate a lot of people. I got medicine for it though and just am working through it. After that my roommate and I just went to get the textbook we had to buy for our art history class at a place called paperback exchange which is a bookstore filled with american books and italian books with good prices. Our textbook was 30 euro and we are sharing it!
At 4 pm we had to meet for art history class at a column in the Piazza della Repubblica. There we learned all about the history of the square. I am completely fascinated by the fact that we were able to learn history from 200 BC to 1895 AD all in one piazza in Florence. People enter this main piazza every day without ever knowing the amazing things that we were able to learn. We sat at the very center of the city for our lecture. Then we moved along to the piazza della signoria where we learned about the fort-like structure that housed the republic that was formed in the 1200s. We also heard that one of the famous statues in the front of the building, Herculus and Cacus, was called "sac of potatoes" by the Florentines back in the day because of the way the artist depicted the human body. Ha!
After class a bunch of the girls on the trip made our way to a very popular gelato store called GROM, where I enjoyed caffe e pistacchio gelato. Very yummy. Then we came back to the apartment for a little bit to hang out before going to dinner. I have been designated the person to get us to places by looking at a map (I'm not sure if this suprises any of you, but I am actually very good at directions here). We went to a leisurely dinner with 9 of us here. We had bruschetti italiano, and prosciutto e melone for antipasti. Then I enjoyed gnocchi 4 cheeses. We all drank house wine and were given lemoncello to sip at the end of the meal. For all of our meal it cost us 100 euro for 9 people!
We were having too much fun, so we decided to continue the party by going to a karaoke bar called The Old Stove. The girls (including me) decided to sing "This Love" by Maroon 5 and we had another group of us that sang a Backstreet Boys song. Everyone loved it! We met up with kids from Pepperdine that a few of the LMU girls knew at this karaoke bar and it ended up being a fun night.
Drawing class was this morning at 9 AM, and it wasnt too much of a struggle to wake up and shower. Class was fun, I already learned techniques that I can use to greatly improve my drawing. He said that with the few techniques we learned today we can draw anything we could ever want, now drawing it well is another story haha! Our assignment for Friday is to draw any 2 objects so I think I will go out and sit somewhere to draw something.
After class Madison, Kyle, and I went to another restaurant one of our guide books suggested called Il Trattitore where I munched on a sandwich with prosciutto, goat cheese, basil (yum!) and wine for only 4 euro!! Life here is so cheap and wonderful! Walking everywhere is hopefully keeping me fit. And Im hoping that I will do a little running along the way. After lunch we did a little shopping, and I read our art history textbook readings.
I hope everyone is doing wonderful!!
I love you all!
Alyssa
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