NEITHER.

right-o.... so no greece OR turkey. instead, me madre is coming to visit me and we will hop about italy together, possibly hitting sicily at some point. UNTIL THEN...

clarissa and i have just booked passage to prague. we are staying for two nights (26th-28th) in a hostel in the middle of the old town part in a 10 people mixed dorm. we intend to make international friends. period. in case anyone is interested, only after about 4 hours of internet-ing, i found roundtrip tickets for $300 on swiss air. relatively ridiculous since we're not going that far but i think it's worth it. neither of us really know what to expect as neither of us have been there, but everyone ALWAYS says "go to prague". thus, we are going to prague (it was between that or amsterdam).

so between the last post and this one, i have had more italian classes (though dinner conversation is still extremely limited), our first italian lit class, a trip to the baptistry, and a lovely excursion to siena. we visited the cathedral there (very unique in the black and white marble stripes). in addition to that, clarissa, annie and i climbed to the top of the bell tower of the city hall. we could seriously see half of tuscany. we also went to the museo of the opera (the cathedral's museum) and saw the DUCCIO ALTARPIEEECE. for those of you who are not art history masters, this is a magnificent (perhaps even THE) example of early renaissance. in addition, we also saw lorenzetti's Good Government and Bad Government, also something i was really excited to see. other than that, i ate a really lame panini, got in a fight withsandwichmaker-lady who MADE me buy a sandwich even though i didnt want it, and the best gelato on Planet Earth.


back to current times.

michael-to-the-anne is coming to study here in firenze. i havent seen her in a really long time and this is the first time we will be in the same place for such a long period of time since The Prairie School, Inc. (which, may i add, is already sending me alumni e-mails asking me for money even though i only graduated 2 1/2 years ago and am currently a poor college student).

note to michael anne: 1. see you in a few weeks
2. before you leave, get some info on bermuda scuba diving lessons
3. i have yet to see a station wagon
4. there are not many obese people here to make fun of, so i suggest you
bring a few with you

ciao.