Where is my mind?

I haven't been paying a lot of attention to what I've been doing lately. Today I left my apartment and saw my bus go by. I just said, "Oh, there's my bus!" but it didn't occur to me to run for it. When I finally did, it was too late. I missed it :( Then when I got off the next bus I kept walking past my road, and I didn't realize it for a while. I am just in some different world. I need to start paying more attention.

Tuesday was Renee's internship interview and when it was over she wanted to "rage hard." We set up a beer pong table in our hallway and I thought we were going to get written up because we're so loud. Then we went out to some bar and some CAPA kids were there and then more CAPA kids came and I watched some Italians playing some kind of weird hand game. It was fun. Kyle and I decided we were going to Prom lol. I don't know why... he really decided it more than I did, and I'm still not sure where it came from.

Wednesday my Antiquity to Baroque art class went out to Fiesole to see the Etruscan and the Roman ruins. The Etruscans were a fun culture. They cremated people and then put them in incendiary urns with portraits of the person inside. Some of the urns looked like little houses. Some of them were for married couples. They put them in things called tumuli, which can house an entire family. They carved things like rope, glasses, plates, decorations, and other household items into the tuffa stone to provide all the things they would need in the next life. When people died they had parties to celebrate their deaths.
Then the Romans conquered them, and then in this part of Italy they were conquered by the Lombards.
After class Gina, Emily, and I went shopping. I bought really pretty earrings with birds and black flowers. I'm wearing them with my new tan and black gingham dress and my new black boots. Did I mention that my new blue boots broke in Rome? Sad story.

Last night was a quiet night. My flatmates and I talked about how we really need to be better about lights. I came home today and there was no one there and the lights were on in the bathroom and in the kitchen. We're going to get pegged with such a huge bill.
I saw the works of Masacchio and Masolino today, inlcuding The Expulsion from the Garden. I love art history in Florence.



Notes About Florence:
If you're female, dye your hair a dark color. You don't want to be blonde here.

Look UP! You never know what is on the ceiling above you. There's a store in the city center with frescoes on the walls. My class rooms have got inlayed ceilings and frescoes. There is art everywhere, if you look for it. That's not a cheesy saying here - that's the truth.