Both of these days I was dancing (in addition to my regular classes). Tuesday I volunteered to give another lesson to my friends, which was also a lot of fun.
After I was done teaching I learned that one of the students (from America named Ryan Hayward) is an incredible dancer. Ryan dances 16 hours a week back in the U.S. So he spent a little time showing us some east coast swing. Next he demonstrated jive. I had never heard of this dance before and it is incredibly taxing and fun to watch. After 1 minute Ryan was sweating bullets.
On Wed. I had my normal lesson at the dance studio. I asked the owner which restaurants in Napoli he recommends, because he was there for several years.
25 Thursday March Dinner
Today, I had 8 hours of class and yet had quite a bit of fun. We spent a bit of our Italian class learning a number of hand gestures. The list was very large, but in no way exhaustive. After Italian, I had lunch with my Argentinean conversation partner and her boyfriend.
For art history we spent the first hour in the classroom, but the second walking around town and through the newly opened Museum of Albani. It was a beautiful day, and as we walked along he explained the significance of many of the different statues I pass by every day. The Museum was beautiful; however, the best part was the motion sensor lights. As soon as you left the one rooms the lights faded to noting.
For dinner Villanova paid for us to go out together. Once a month, the school schedules us to have an exceptionally good time eating in Italy. They did a very good job and I ate way too much of their deserts.
For art history we spent the first hour in the classroom, but the second walking around town and through the newly opened Museum of Albani. It was a beautiful day, and as we walked along he explained the significance of many of the different statues I pass by every day. The Museum was beautiful; however, the best part was the motion sensor lights. As soon as you left the one rooms the lights faded to noting.
For dinner Villanova paid for us to go out together. Once a month, the school schedules us to have an exceptionally good time eating in Italy. They did a very good job and I ate way too much of their deserts.
26 Friday, March, EXPLORATION
So today was an absolutely beautiful day and my classes were cancelled for a conference. So I hopped on a bus with some friends and we just took it to the end.
We stopped for a bit in Urbania which is renowned for its mummy museum. However, when we were there it was closed so we got back on the bus and headed up to the town of Lamoli. Lamoli is a really beautiful town with about 40 buildings total. The rest is just beautiful mountains. As we trekked higher and higher on the trails we really got a sense for how small it was. The trails were pretty good and I actually saw several dear, a pack of chickens, and a number of huge piggish creatures (they looked like pigs, but they were to hairy). All in all it was a very beautiful day (pictures forthcoming.)
We stopped for a bit in Urbania which is renowned for its mummy museum. However, when we were there it was closed so we got back on the bus and headed up to the town of Lamoli. Lamoli is a really beautiful town with about 40 buildings total. The rest is just beautiful mountains. As we trekked higher and higher on the trails we really got a sense for how small it was. The trails were pretty good and I actually saw several dear, a pack of chickens, and a number of huge piggish creatures (they looked like pigs, but they were to hairy). All in all it was a very beautiful day (pictures forthcoming.)
27, 28 Weekend March Cutting Hair!
27 Saturday-Conversation and Scissors
Another beautiful day in Italy- 65 and sunny. I spent the morning practicing my Italian with my friends and the afternoon cutting my friends hair. It way too long and very disorganized and he just wanted it all off so he asked me for some help. Of course I had no idea what I was doing, but I’ve been to the barber’s enough times to fake it. So we just through some water on in, and started hacking away with scissors and a beard trimmer.
Nothing have as exciting as scissors happened on Sunday. Another beautiful day in Italy.
29 Monday March, Database nightmare
My philosophy teacher was missing in action again and I had to settle for an unimpressive substitute. The shame is that she’s a pretty good teacher but never there. Anyways...
I spent the rest of the day trying to get some work done on my term papers. Because I was hoping to do some more research I attempted to activate Villanova’s electronic databases. However, because I’m halfway across the world the system won’t let me in.
In an attempt to try to fix this problem I went to the library’s website.
Turns out there’s a link that lets you chat with a Villanova librarian on line. Every time I’ve tried they’ve responded within seconds and they really tried to help. They wanted me to open a terminal session to appear as if I was as Villanova and allow me to access the databases. Although this fixed the first problem, it effectively killed my internet access. Long story short, you can get Villanova databases at Villanova.
I spent the rest of the day trying to get some work done on my term papers. Because I was hoping to do some more research I attempted to activate Villanova’s electronic databases. However, because I’m halfway across the world the system won’t let me in.
In an attempt to try to fix this problem I went to the library’s website.
Turns out there’s a link that lets you chat with a Villanova librarian on line. Every time I’ve tried they’ve responded within seconds and they really tried to help. They wanted me to open a terminal session to appear as if I was as Villanova and allow me to access the databases. Although this fixed the first problem, it effectively killed my internet access. Long story short, you can get Villanova databases at Villanova.
30 Tuesday, March- Tango with friends
Today I gave another tango lesson to my friends (after all my homework was done). It’s amazing how fast they’ve learned and how much better I am at explaining things in Italian. Anyways, after the lesson my friend was teaching us some waltz and rumba. Next thing you know, you’ll see me on dancing with the stars.
31 Wednesday March- Anahi, Katie, Soccer, Tango
Another relaxed day, most people are done with classes and looking ahead to break plans. I spent the day practicing my Italian And at night I spent an hour playing soccer at a miniature indoor field. I’m either getting slower(from all this good food) or the Italians I’m playing with just better. Anyways, I’m going to pretend this was a cultural learning experience….
All the Italians bring huge bags to the soccer matches. Why? It’s because they’re all hygiene obsessed. In addition to carrying their cleats, the bags carry a change of clothes, because they all want to shower immediately after the match. Every field
I’ve gone to, indoors and out, has a locker room with showers. My friends bring not only soap, shampoo, and shower shoes, but also huge blow-dryers and robes to put on for the two seconds after they’ve dried off and before they put on new clothes. The funny part about the blow-dryers is that most of them have next to know hair to dry. No matter, before they leave, their 1 inch of hair is perfectly dry.
All the Italians bring huge bags to the soccer matches. Why? It’s because they’re all hygiene obsessed. In addition to carrying their cleats, the bags carry a change of clothes, because they all want to shower immediately after the match. Every field
I’ve gone to, indoors and out, has a locker room with showers. My friends bring not only soap, shampoo, and shower shoes, but also huge blow-dryers and robes to put on for the two seconds after they’ve dried off and before they put on new clothes. The funny part about the blow-dryers is that most of them have next to know hair to dry. No matter, before they leave, their 1 inch of hair is perfectly dry.
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