Day 8: The Studious Life

September 9
Classes began on Tuesday, with a slide show on the uses of art and a lot of the basics of our course, which is taught by Dr. Skillen. For the next three weeks he'll be teaching us all about art and architecture in the renaissance period. On Wednesday we had class in the morning, and a mix of homework, napping, talking, and wandering around town filled up the afternoon. The afternoons are typically dedicated to homework and studying, though they are most often spent doing completely unproductive activities...like sleeping.
I spent the evening hanging out in the sala with a few others, discussing deep philosophical matters that affect college students today. The discussion began intellectually with a comment about The Taming of the Shrew...and the ever-so-popular adaption 10 Things I Hate About You. Which of course led to a conversation on how hot Heath Ledger is and how sad it is that he died. A tangent from that conversation led to a shared hatred of the TV adaption of that movie, and once that topic had been thoroughly covered, we discussed Heath Ledger's hair in the movie and the disconcerting memories of the styles of the late '90s. When we had all agreed that, although Heath's hair was indeed stringy and distasteful in that film, he was still gorgeous overall. Our conversation then wavered from hairstyles of 10 years ago to the MaryKate and Ashley phenomenon that every middle school girl adored, to Harriet the Spy.
Anyway.
That's the sort of thing that goes on around here. Real productive and all that.
Our schedule is becoming more lax, and the routine of class in the morning is starting to be routine. Of course, that will all be thrown for a loop when we take off for Siena this weekend, and a full weekend in Florence next weekend.
So that's what's new...not much. However, after Siena, I'll update the world on Lorenzetti's frescoes and all other such exciting events.
Ciao.