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Update time! Hmm, where to start... I'll just go day by day.
Monday (after my last post)
Pretty crazy night. Won't go into the details, but I was up most of the night because I somehow managed to find myself caught in the middle of relationship drama between two of the others. And while all this drama was going on, we were also in the middle of creating a big poster of Playboy images as a present for James (one of the guys) whose birthday was Tuesday... so we had to wait bloody hours for him to go to bed so we could tape it up on his window. XD And it took forever for him and his roomate to go to bed because they were creating drunken 'art' with paint and food. -_- So yeah, kinda nuts. I think I ended up getting about 1 hour of sleep that night... ^^;
Tuesday
Spent most of the day in a daze because I was so tired from the previous night... barely know what we saw, and took crappy notes. A group of us had dinner out to celebrate James's birthday, then I was supposed to go to bed early, except that minutes after I arrived at the top of the hill (our cabins are at the top, everything else is at the bottom...) Yvonne runs up to me and asks if I want to play pool, and I'm like 'hell yeah' even though it's almost 12am at that point. So back down the hill, played one game of pool, and sat outside chatting with her and Doug for about an hour before trudging back up the hill to go to bed. Probably not the smartest idea, but it was fun. :)
Wednesday
Siena and San Giminano! Both are big tourist traps, but San Gimignano is still a beautiful little town. I did some shopping and wandered around, not much else. Siena's nice, but also crowded. Didn't have a chance to climb the tower, because we only had about an hour break and we used it to eat. As usual. XD We always just use our breaks to eat, it's kinda funny... Tried to get some work done in the evening, but not that successful, heh.
Thursday
The Academia, at last. Wandered around for about an hour and a half (inc. lecture), watched others in my group sneaking pictures of the David, got creeped out by the 'workshop' room with all the head busts staring down (so many heads, and they're all waaatching you... eek.), and of course admired David and the unfinished Slaves (which are really cool, since they're sort of emerging out of the stone... lots of energy and movement, and it's amazing how Michelangelo could just sculpt them from one side to the other without doing a basic outline first. The side that's not sculpted is still just plain rock, he didn't do any kind of rough outline.)
Thursday was also Yvonne's birthday (2 in one week, go figure...), so we bought her pizza and cakes and ate it outside her trailer in the evening. Lots of fun. :) Then actually went to bed early, yay.
Friday (today)
Today was the Uffizi Gallery, which was of course amazing. We almost accidentally skipped the room with the Botticellis though, oops. XD Had a lecture for about 2 hours, then wandered around a bit, went to the gift shop, and left. Took off on my own to have lunch, then ended up here. As usual. ^^;
This weekend is relaxation time, yay! Hopefully a group of us are going horseback riding, but other than that we're just going to hang out around the pool and work on our journals.
Anyway, that's about it. Hope everything's good at home. :)
Monday (after my last post)
Pretty crazy night. Won't go into the details, but I was up most of the night because I somehow managed to find myself caught in the middle of relationship drama between two of the others. And while all this drama was going on, we were also in the middle of creating a big poster of Playboy images as a present for James (one of the guys) whose birthday was Tuesday... so we had to wait bloody hours for him to go to bed so we could tape it up on his window. XD And it took forever for him and his roomate to go to bed because they were creating drunken 'art' with paint and food. -_- So yeah, kinda nuts. I think I ended up getting about 1 hour of sleep that night... ^^;
Tuesday
Spent most of the day in a daze because I was so tired from the previous night... barely know what we saw, and took crappy notes. A group of us had dinner out to celebrate James's birthday, then I was supposed to go to bed early, except that minutes after I arrived at the top of the hill (our cabins are at the top, everything else is at the bottom...) Yvonne runs up to me and asks if I want to play pool, and I'm like 'hell yeah' even though it's almost 12am at that point. So back down the hill, played one game of pool, and sat outside chatting with her and Doug for about an hour before trudging back up the hill to go to bed. Probably not the smartest idea, but it was fun. :)
Wednesday
Siena and San Giminano! Both are big tourist traps, but San Gimignano is still a beautiful little town. I did some shopping and wandered around, not much else. Siena's nice, but also crowded. Didn't have a chance to climb the tower, because we only had about an hour break and we used it to eat. As usual. XD We always just use our breaks to eat, it's kinda funny... Tried to get some work done in the evening, but not that successful, heh.
Thursday
The Academia, at last. Wandered around for about an hour and a half (inc. lecture), watched others in my group sneaking pictures of the David, got creeped out by the 'workshop' room with all the head busts staring down (so many heads, and they're all waaatching you... eek.), and of course admired David and the unfinished Slaves (which are really cool, since they're sort of emerging out of the stone... lots of energy and movement, and it's amazing how Michelangelo could just sculpt them from one side to the other without doing a basic outline first. The side that's not sculpted is still just plain rock, he didn't do any kind of rough outline.)
Thursday was also Yvonne's birthday (2 in one week, go figure...), so we bought her pizza and cakes and ate it outside her trailer in the evening. Lots of fun. :) Then actually went to bed early, yay.
Friday (today)
Today was the Uffizi Gallery, which was of course amazing. We almost accidentally skipped the room with the Botticellis though, oops. XD Had a lecture for about 2 hours, then wandered around a bit, went to the gift shop, and left. Took off on my own to have lunch, then ended up here. As usual. ^^;
This weekend is relaxation time, yay! Hopefully a group of us are going horseback riding, but other than that we're just going to hang out around the pool and work on our journals.
Anyway, that's about it. Hope everything's good at home. :)