Cinque Settimane a Firenze
Its been five weeks since I started class in Florence. It has been extremely busy in Italy. I could write a book on all the amazing things I have done, seen and tasted. A small list includes great views from the hills of Fiesole, 20-30 beautiful churches of the gothic and renaissance style, hundreds of amazing frescoes, a couple of archeological sites and over a dozen art, science and history museums.
I arrived at my host family's house after only one day of Italian class. It was quite a shock when I realized they knew no english. Five weeks later, my roommate and I are have simple, but understandable conversation fully in Italian. Dinner's in Italy are much later than in the United States. A typical dinner at my house starts at 8pm. The dinners are always three courses. First soup or pasta. Then, a vegetable with meat and finally a piece of fruit for dessert. My favorite meal is gnocchi and caprese which is seasoned fresh tomatoes and mozzarella.
The first weekend I was in Italy our program took a trip to Venice. It was hard to believe that Venice could live up to all the pictures, but it did. I got to watch a demonstration on glass blowing, and take a short gondola ride, in which the gondola was almost tipped over by a large man.
Since I can not possibly post all five hundred photos that I have take, I will post my top ten favorite pictures from my first five weeks in Italy.
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The City of Florence |
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Glass blowing demonstration in Venice |
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Venice |
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Processional to San Marco during palm Sunday in Venice |
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The Florence countryside |
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Piazza Duomo in Florence during Easter |
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Rainy easter morning |
A short video of the view from a tower in Siena
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A few from Fiesole |
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eating gelato on the bridge |