2nd Week of Class

The second week of class was pretty awesome. On saturday we went to Florence and visited their large cathedral. Florence is the rival of Siena so it was funny to hear our Sienese guides talking about the art. The statue of David was in front and it is impressive. It was gigantic, a lot bigger than I thought. We stayed after the excursion and walked to a cool Chinese place. We were all a little cranky after we got back so we decided to go to the bar. We ended up having a great time and Piper and I tried Absinthe. On Sunday we went to the soccer game which was really fun and there were some awesome plays. The crowd was lively and singing the entire time. Hanks bought an entire soccer outfit, which only 5 year olds were wearing so that was pretty funny, I just bought a scarf. The week has been good so far, I don't really like my Art and Science class it has potential but the teacher is a little scatterbrained. Our cross cultural studies class is interesting and we get to go to the university and meet with italian students who are learning english and we help each other. I really like Italian and almost moved up to level II because level I was pretty easy, but decided against doing that much work. I love art history the professor is really cool and he knows so much. On tuesday we went to il Duomo and he explained so much of the art to us. Looking at it closely opens up so much more of the stories that are behind the art. There was usually only one giant window that shed light inside the cathedral, so there was a lot of new testament were the light would be, then farther away was the old testament, and further away was pagan art, so it is an entire progression of the rise of Christianity. Today we went to the crypt and the museum of the cathdral, which were cool too. We got a great panoramic view of the entire city and Tuscan landscape. We are going to Rome tomorrow and it should be amazing. I have my cooking class tonight, we are making our own noodles and a bunch of stuff. I would still love to hear from anyone so give me a shout out.