Monday morning my friend Kahla and I went out an adventure to kill two birds with one stone; I had to walk to do my digital multimedia Florence walk and we wanted to investigate the stadium for soccer or volleyball leagues. Sadly, we were only successful in one goal, but at least it was my homework assignment! The women we talked to at the stadium just laughed at us and told us there were only men’s leagues for soccer. I think we’re going to go play pick-up at the park and I’m e-mailing the University of Florence to see if I can play volleyball with one of their club/intramural teams (not sure what exactly it is as the website was in Italian…)
Otherwise, just lots of normal class stuff. Two Italian quizzes, I am a champ at responding to Come te chiami? (what is your name?) and Come sta? (How are you?). I successfully ordered everything I wanted at the market all in Italian. And I have a cute old Italian man at the market that I always go to his vegetable stand. He teaches me new words in Italian and slips extra things in my bag for free! I’ve gotten spring onions, extra oranges, extra lettuce and more from him! Gotta love making new friends.
I also made a boot investment! I bought real Italian leather black boots. I’m pretty pumped about them, my first substantial Italian purchase (probably my only big buy besides purchase. Unless I decide to get a leather coat…Florence is known for its leather by the way if anyone didn’t know!) It was kind of intimidating though because I went into this store on my own since I had separated from my roommate Diana so I could go to class and she could go back to the apartment. They brought me to the basement to look at more boot options and then the woman helping me decided I should look at leather jackets and began dressing me in “Italian style.” I barely escaped, running to class. But afterwards I headed back to buy my boots, refusing the jacket they kept trying me to buy. I was not ready to make that big of a decision…we all know I am awful at making up my mind and all I knew was I wanted boots.
Then today (Friday) I had a field trip to Bologna for Arte Fiera (Art First), an international exhibition of contemporary art. All of those conference centers I’ve played in for volleyball tournaments have nothing on this place. The art show was spread out over three buildings and each was FULL of art everywhere. Very overwhelming. But also an amazing opportunity. We arrived in Bologna around 10:45 and weren’t leaving until 6. I might go to an art school here in Florence, but that did not prepare me to look around for 7 hours of pure art…
A group of 5 of us decided around 3 pm that we had had enough and needed a break, so grabbed a bus to the center of Bologna and wandered around the actual city. We took a break in a nice café, and then headed back to get the bus back to Florence. Definitely would not have made it for three more hours looking around the convention center as amazing as it was. Now I need to catch up on sleep for my trip to Pisa and Lucca tomorrow!
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