Yup, It's Monday

Starting out my Monday with this view of the Pantheon wasn't too shabby if I must say so myself. For my Renaissance and Baroque class we went on a "Catholic Marathon" as she called it, where we met at the Pantheon, then went on to Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Basilica di St. Agostino and Basilica di Santa Maria dell'Anima. The churches were interesting. We focussed on specific paintings in each obviously and I learned a few fun facts:
1. Raphael died of sexual diseases... yuck.
2. There was this thing called the "Fig Leaf Movement" where I guess it was artists went around to sculptures and covered the penis of the sculpture. in the case of a sculpture of Jesus in the Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva they made a "gold cloth" out of sculpture and covered it. Apparently that was a "polite" way to cover it, since they could easily take the "fig leaf" off if they wanted to later on.
Made it back to school in time to do some homework and chill, watched youtube videos and talked about the way families are shown in TV shows. He used examples everywhere from the Osbournes and Kardashians to the Simpsons, Flinestones, Jetsons, Brady Bunch, Crosby's... I could go on. Then when we got to Italian we had a "quiz" which was supposed to review everything we were supposed to know coming into the class. Good thing it was the length of the tests in all other language classes I've taken. Only like 6 pages, with a listening section and an essay. No big right?... chyea ok.
Luckily after that I got to come home, have a delicious dinner and skype with my mom and grandpa for a solid half an hour. He was disappointed in the Lakers, complaining that my mom had opened windows in his apartment that's normally 85 degrees due to the heater he keeps on constantly, but told me to make sure to ride a gondola while I'm in Venice on Saturday. I don't think he understood the concept of going for Carnviale, but oh well. Alright time to work on some critiques before bed. Buona Sera.