Friday we had our first classes. The first was studio with Gary and Suzanne Coates, two architecture professors from K-State. They introduced the first assignment which is used to help us learn more about Orvieto. We are divided into groups based on where we live and are supposed to take note of the types of places and spaces in our 'neighborhood' which includes our apartment. It's due next Monday along with a tour route which we will lead the rest of the class through. We haven't started...
The second class was with Marco. He teaches the history of Italian culture, art, architecture etc. His lecture was probably one of the most interesting and least boring that I've been to in a long time. He's a cute older italian man who is very passionate about his country and has a great way of explaining things. And yes, he speaks English although he says "eco" like we would say "um" or "ok". Class started at 10 or so and at 11:30 we had a 30 minute break during which we ran to get some lunch. My roommates and I went to get some sandwiches and pasta. I had a pasta with tuna and big noodles which was really good.
After class got over at 1:30ish we were free to do what we wanted. I went home and took a nice little nap. After everyone got home we started make a lovely pasta dinner. I bought some fancy pasta the day before which we added to some sauce that Jena made with fresh tomatoes and onions from the Market. We also had bread and cheese, olive oil, balsamic, and herbs. After dinner the whole group went to Swan Lake ballet at the theater. It was nice that we didn't have to worry about understanding a show in Italian, but the story was still kind of hard to follow. After the ballet we went to a cafe and had a glass of wine with everyone. I came home after that and took a shower and went to be because I had to get up early for cooking class Saturday morning!!
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