Sort of... Today was my first real day of classes except there are no Italian classes on Mondays and for some unknown reason my Baroque class was cancelled this morning. The nice part was I got to sleep in later than the roomies and had the apartment to myself to get ready and make breakfast. It was a little bit cooler today but not inside stuffy crowded classrooms with the windows closed!
First class was Conservation and I wasn't really looking forward to it, but my teacher seems nice. While it sounds like it will be a challenging class for me I think I'm really going to like it! It's for people who've already taken art history classes so she assumes some basic knowledge and we won't feel like we're being babied every step of the way. Lots of field trips including to the cleaning of a fresco! It's all about how art is made and thus how they go about deciding to clean or not clean them and the ethical as well as practical sides.
Second class was about the Renaissance. My teacher's English sounds like a French person taught it to him and he has a lisp, so listening in very important! This is a very basic class, today we learned controposto and touched on the Classical period. My professor is brilliant and has a PhD in Roman Art and how it ties into politics. I think I'll learn new connections and history from him more than about art, but that's fine. An easy class or two will give me more time for exploring!
After classes Tom and Julia and I went for pizza, picked up some more books from the copy shop, then did the homework for our Italian class which involved walking around our neighborhood. I stopped by home to write down some of what we saw and grab a drink since it's still very warm. Sophia and I went to the supermarket for some dinner supplies. Skyped a little today, watched a tv episode, going to do homework. It's been a lazy day but St. Peter's was a lot to handle yesterday. I'm happy to be getting into a routine now, these first two weeks had very fluid schedules and were changing a lot. I'm happy to start school for real (only 2 weeks after Ithaca!) and so ready to be done with orientations!! Syllabus week is thankfully condensed into two days. Going to Pompeii and the Almalfi coast this weekend!! I'm very excited!!!!!
Today I had all one hour classes but for the rest of the week everything is in block timing of like two hours or so, allowing us to do field trips for class etc. Except tomorrow's Italian is only an hour and a half, it's our short day and every other day is longer. Ciao for now!
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