4th Down

A month down of living in Firenze and it's been pretty awesome so far. There's really not a whole lot to report on about school. School is school and it has its ups and downs just like as if I were at Oswego. In my psych class, we did have locals that were our age come in and speak to us. Three of them were half Italian and half American but were born and raise in Italy and the one guy was actually the boyfriend of the girl who came to speak to us. They bascially just told us about living in Italy and American and how they perceive the study abroad students. In my art classes, I'm still working on what I want to do for the art show. For sculpture I was going to do song interpretation. I was going to use Our Lady of Sorrows by My Chemical Romance and Razor by Foo Fighters. I'm still working on that one. For watercolor, I'm kind of at a loss. I have this great idea for a photo and I can watercolor over parts of it but all the people I use for models are at home. I had Ra send me my portfolio so I can still kind of do something, maybe with that stuff. Who knows. Something will come to me in time. I still need to put in studio hours too. I'll probably dedicate Monday's and Wednesday's after class to do that. At least 4 hours a week should be good as long as I start doing that like tomorrow.

This weekend was the handmade chocolate festival! It was amazing! There were so many vendors and so many things to sample. They were all different kinds of hot chocolate (white, dark, and a variety of milk chocolate), tons of candied chocolate covered fruits, chocolate animals and a variety of objects, and just tons and tons of solid chocolate bars. It was an amazing experience to be there. I didn't buy anything but it is going on next weekend and then that's it. Maybe I'll buy some stuff to take home and freeze it. Maybe though. It might not make it back to the apartment ha ha!

Spring break is looking interesting. Since I was the only one not going to the Prague castle tour, the current prince takes you on a tour of his castle, everyone else also decided not to do it to. My dad knows someone who lives there and speaks english that can give us a tour of the city. I think that's really awesome because I don't know or speak the language and it's a completely new country that I haven't been adapted to. I kind of feel like I'm deviating from the group a little bit. They all seem to live by this guy Rick Steves who apparently is this travel writer. I thought the point was to creat your own adventure not follow someone else. Alyssum and Cullen have already planned out the rest of their weekend's here. I'm totally not that kind of person. I wing it. If I want to go somewhere, I'll hop on a train and go or plan out at least the times for the train and just go. We'll see what happens.

So the other day, I was looking at flights for Bobo to come out here for his spring break. I found flights that were about the same as my flight out here (just around $870 for a round trip ticket). The only thing about the flight home was that he needed to stay overnight in Paris but he would still be back in time for classes to start again. It made me really sad because I know it will never happen and I think he might be getting an electric drum kit. He told me to talk to him parents about it but I wont. Well I can't anyway because I don't have their numbers anymore because I had to replace my SIM card and I lost all my numbers. Yes, I can just ask him for his parents numbers but I wont. Not until I come home at least so I'm not tempted to call and ask and see if there is a possibility. I just made me really sad. I miss him a lot. I miss being with him. I miss my family a lot too. I miss my parents, my sisters, my nephew. I miss seeing my nephew on the weekends or sometimes picking him up after school.

I've been having really bad days of depression and I don't know how to handle it here. At home it was different cause I was getting some help from the school but here, I haven't actually called the counseling place yet. It just seems a little weird for me to do while I'm here but I know I need to. Yesterday, after the chocolate festival, we all walked around and went into some clothing and shoe stores. I was so uncomfortable because I kind of knew what my size was in Italy and it's MUCH BIGGER than the girls here. The same thing happens to me at home when I go shopping with almost anyone except like Ra and that's really it. I'll need to just take a day by myself and just go get some stuff. I want to bring back at least one nice outfit from here. I'm not saying I'm going into designer stores and buying stuff. I'm sticking with more local shops and such to find things. Although I did go into the La Perla store. Holy shit that place is expensive. Some of the stuff there was nice but I can find the same things for WAY cheaper and probably nicer too. I just I'm not really a fashion person except that I really like retro/pin-up clothing.

A presto!