I do apologize that it has been so long. I just now realized it's going on nearly three weeks since I last updated y'all. Anywho, not much going. This semester seemed to slide into productive mode much easier than last. First of all, my schedule is fine...though it could be better. Lauren is here...along with several other people I was close to on Main Campus--that helps alot. Not to mention, it is just always easier the second time around, no? I mean, the whole first week was proof that there just was not as much adjusting to what needed to be done as last year.
But! Since we last spoke, here are some things I've done:
(1) This past weekend (8-10 Febraio) I went on the Jan Gadeyne Death March again. Most of the same places, though we added Cumae (the first and strongest Greek settlement on main-land Italy--for you myth buffs, home to one of the passages to the underworld, and the Sybill). Otherwise, it was pretty uneventful. I had done it with him before, so there was a lot more time to picture-taking this time around...instead of note-taking.
(1a) Oh yeah, about pictures, I'll try to get one or two up here and there, but (a) it takes forever to do here, and (b) my account(s) limit how many pictures I can put up at anyone time in any one portfolio so just wait till I get home and have a slide-show on my computer.
(2) The weekend before (2-3 Febraio) Lauren and I went to Assisi. That was not only spiritually moving (seeing the San Damiano cross--look it up--in person was breathtaking in every sense of the word) but also entirely too beautiful. The landscape was just gorgeous and there was really nothing but hills and farms all around this medieval city. It was amazing.
(3) We had a party (well, six of us--my roommates, (girl)Lauren, Lizzie, Dani) for Carnivale with homemade, American (Bisquick is soooooooo expensive at the import shops) pancakes for dinner; then cookies Dani brought; then out for gelato; then a good roll home.
(4) Spring Break is finally planned: Athens and Amsterdam.
Otherwise, life has been pretty bland; jolly but bland. A jaunt here. A saunter there. Winter weather has trickled in (though we never know if it's going to be ten or sixty any given day) so we've been carrying umbrellas everywhere. Winter weather in the Mediterranean is terribly wet. But rain and thunder in Italy is better than rain and thunder in America! We can grin and bear it.
Hope life is treating you all well.
Talk soon...if all goes as planned.
Ciao for Now,
RomanTraveller
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