I find myself being extremely happy and energetic to be here. Both Italia and Firenze itself, are absolutely beautiful locations to visit and explore!! I find that the art, food and shopping are three key things here. I can't count the amount of times I have been speechless at the art work that I have been able to see and/or photograph. I find it highly amusing that I managed to get yelled at in a museum for taking photos...just as I had thought before I came here. "NOOOOO FOTOS!" ...I just laughed and walked away. I can't help it. I truly have a huge passion for photography and up until the near end of this trip, I've constantly been inspired to take shots of anything and everything. My Photography course has been pretty great. I'm bummed that I recently missed the field trip to the Mental Institution, due to sun poisoning. However, my professor is wonderful and I have greatly been inspired to pursue further in photography and I have learned a lot in a short amount of time. My final presentation was exciting but nerve/wrecking. It went good and my professor was very pleased with my work, which is very exciting!!
I've come across some wonderful people from Italy or other surrounding European locations. But let's not forget night life. I've endured some very joyful surroundings, but have dealt with some disrespect from nasty Italiano or other random men. You have to watch out for yourself here at night, that's for sure! Sometimes the girls and I have experienced some humorous situations where you just have to stop and laugh though. For instance, the first night when we were walking around by the fake David. These guys were literally trying to get our attention based on our dinner of choice for the evening. The pick up line in Italy is apparently... Can I have some of your pizzaaa
HAHA... Other times we've walked around town, there will be guys on bicycles that do humorous hand signals. I remember this guy puckering his face and winking and I couldn't help but bust out laughing and Hannah's commentary was something to the effect of I feel quite disgusted right now...Haha.
Now, that I've begun blogging I feel that I could write and write and write! There's so much that can be told about Italia, and once I start typing I cant stop. CIAO for now!
Nikki, I am really glad that you have expressed yourself here as there have been times when I wasn't sure how you felt about some of our experiences. You have eloquently described your feelings, adventures, sights, shopping [of course..] and the food.
ReplyDeleteThe personal experiences that you and the other women have had are part of the joy, adventure and, for me, concern of such a trip. You have all come through this well and to say I have been impressed by you all is an understatement!
Yes, I have done this many times, been here often but as you have heard me say numerous times, it still wows me. Ultimately for me the thing I enjoy most about teaching is what you-all teach me, how you see things I never do, how you experience and understand in ways I never can. You and the rest of our group have shown me Firenze in a different way, I thank you!