Bouno Giornata

Last night's welcome dinner was amazing. We went to this restaurant that basically translates as something like, The Restaurant of the Crazy People, and they tried to live up to their name! They would walk by making weird noises and they gave out bubbles and at one point they starting tossing oranges all over the room. I got one, but then he wanted me to toss it back. I really wanted to keep it, it smelled delicious.
We got there a little late so we had to sit wherever there was room. I ended up at a table with kids from Ursinus... that's a school that is affiliated with CAPA but is not actually with CAPA. Their classes are in the same place and they can take CAPA classes, but they also have separate ones. Anyway, these kids are awesome! I found it so much easier to talk and connect with them than I have with a lot of the CAPA kids. We're all going to go out together on Saturday. Also, their professor is going to let me sit in on his class called the Philosophy of Art. I can't get credit for it, so I don't have to do the assignments, but it will be really great to just go and learn a little extra.
At the end of the dinner, the owner of the restaurant grabbed me from my seat and took me to the front of the restaurant to stand with some other kids he'd done the same with. They then presented us with free bottles of sparkling wine, since we had been such an awesome dinner company. I have a feeling it was really expensive to do so, and it was really really nice.
We had all kinds of great stuff at dinner. There were like ten million appetizers and three kinds of pasta and a desert. The dinner lasted about 4 hours.

Today I went to one of my history of art courses, and it looks like it will be great. We sit in for a small lecture and then we go out into the city and see the art. We walked around today and just had a sort of preliminary what's up class. I'm excited for it, he teaches two of my courses. He is also from Rhode Island, but he's been living in Italy for years.

I have to adjust my class schedule. I'm thinking about taking oil painting or cross cultural psyche or Italian Life and Culture. I would really like to take Italian Life and Culture, I think, but I don't know if OU would accept it for anything at all.