Yup, my 7 week vacation officially came to a close early this morning. The bus was packed and even worse it was packed with kids in their peak of puberty who didn't know they needed to wear deodorant just yet. Eventually we made it to campus to be the first ones in line to sign up for the school trips. (Yeah, we were those nerds...BUT we got all our choices that we wanted!) Because of our ability to wake up early, I was able to book a day trip to Tuscany for a wine tasting tour, a weekend to Sorrento/Pompei/Amalfi Coast and next Tuesday night I'll be taking a cooking class from the chef of a restaurant I ate one of my first nights here (the bean soup meal). This on top of leaving for Florence this weekend and spring break in Greece, I'm extremely pumped for the rest of this semester.
My first class was Art of Renaissance & Baroque. The class is my first Art History class, but seems extremely interesting. The teacher is an expert in the field and has grown up in Rome. Most classes we'll be meeting on site, starting next week at the Church of San Clemente and Capitoline Hill. I have it with my roommate which is refreshing because we can do the work together, travel to the different places together and share a book, which I borrowed from the library.
After that 3 hour class, it was lunch break (mine happens to be 3 1/2 hours long). We got to sign up for a student trip to Venice for Carnivale and ate our cute homemade lunches. It was a gorgeous day out so everyone was in the garden and it was so first day of school.
My second class of the semester was Media and Gender. I knew a lot people in the class, which was nice, and the teacher seems funny and really chill. He's from LA and you can totally tell the West Coast attitude. We watched a bunch of youtube videos to talk about how gender is portrayed and all this stuff. I found myself laughing at all the things the guys were laughing at and per usual there was the hardcore feminist in the back of the class explaining that the woman needs to stand up for her gender and not let these portrayals in the media occur. A little frustrating, but the teacher was really cool and I'm excited for that class (especially since it is way easier than the equivalent at AU would be since they marked it as like a 400 level class)
My last class of the day was Italian. I have forgotten most things I feel like, but they had us take a placement test and then leave so guess we'll have to wait and see how I did. There was an oral part of it and I'm not so great at speaking, much better at writing, so oops. I got out really early since I did the conversation part like third so I got to come home as it was getting dark and even got a seat on the bus.
Doing laundry was probably a bigger adventure than the rest of my first day of school because of the small laundry machine and lack of dryer. My clothes are currently on a giant drying rack in the middle of my room and the machine took like 1 1/2 hours to wash the load. I got so scared it was going to blow up or something that I ran to check on it like every 5 minutes. I have to do another load in the morning because I haven't done laundry since I left LA and my clothes get gross when I travel. Tomorrow I get to sleep in because I don't have class until 2, so I'll do another load of laundry then head to my one class.
I'm far too full from dinner so I'm off. Ciao.
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