Dinner for Wednesday was a combined effort between Gina and I and the result was a delicious homemade hot potato soup.
Earlier that day I emailed Dad and asked him if I could go buy some new clothes. Call me an idiot, but I didn't think I needed summer clothes here. Apparently... I do. I also told him about my lack of jeans. So he told me I could go get some new clothes, which I partly took care of yesterday. Yesterday started out really well. I was early to Ren Art, which never happens. And then, Paola wasn't there! Jeremy taught it, and I love Jeremy! He took us to the Uffizi and we just looked at art and learned random stuff. I went straight from the Uffizi to H&M. I bought a really cute, slightly too big high waisted skirt, a new pair of shorts, and a shirt. I went to Zara and discovered why people love it so much. Now I love it too! Plus I got jeans for 15 euro! And a really cute shirt. Promod was slightly disappointing though. The whole reason I decided to ask was because they had a grey cardigan with a giant strawberry on the back and I loved it. I had tried it on two days prior. Only two days! But they were all gone, and I couldn't buy the one on display.
I have acquired a nice number of shirts with funny sleeves here. Funny sleeves seem to be the thing. I'll probably finish shopping on Monday. I need to buy summer shoes... my flats have got holes in them. I tried on a floaty, ruffly, bright multi colored shirt and H&M. I couldn't decide if I wanted it or not. I kept thinking how my hair looked like Botticelli hair, probably because the Botticelli's were supposed to be our main focus at the Uffizi (even though they weren't.) But even if it looked like it would have been nice in the Renaissance, it looked terrible yesterday. I think that was distracting me. I'll figure it out on Monday. It's not very me, it's not something you would typically see me in, but it is very nice.
Then last night we made homemade tacos again. Anyone who knows me at home knows that I abhor spicy. In Italy however... this is absolutely not true, I love it and I crave it. Last night they were so spicy Kevin's eyes were watering, our noses were running, and I loved it the whole time. We watched The New World with Colin Farrel, which was pretty good even though I had the overwhelming sense that nothing was really happening, even though I knew it was, and then we watched The Silence of the Lambs. In Italian, it's called Silenzio degli Innocenti, which means the silence of the innocent and doesn't really make sense. The word for lamb is agnello, so I don't know why they didn't keep to the title.
Today just wasn't that good. I didn't do as well on my Italian quiz as I thought I did, I mixed up venire and andare, and I felt dumb. More stuff happened that was also upsetting. I would rather live in Tallahassee this summer than anywhere, but the transient student deadline for FSU is up. UF's isn't, so I can try and take lessons there and that will get me closer to finishing my major. That would be good. I've also been thinking about taking some sociology courses.
Maybe I will go into the FBI.
It's been a lazy day. I finally ate my butterfinger that Elena sent me. I succeeded in almost watching an entire episode of Criminal Minds. Gina and I just spent the last 30 minutes killing the misquitos in her rooms, even going so far as climbing a ladder to get to them. We vanquished them all.
Tomorrow we're going to Cinqueterre. We reserved a hostel, only to decide to cancel it. We canceled it three days ahead of time and we never heard back from the hostel. So now I have to go talk to them and make sure they're not going to charge me. If they do, I'm going to have to contest it with Visa. Ugh.
No comments:
Post a Comment