Ohhh Soooo Goood--Wednesday, September 12th

Preface: Italy is wonderful. I am never coming home. I am well aware of the fact that I must make a more informative post about big picture shenanigans going on but I thought I might as well post something asap and this is what I’ve got from my brief recap of my day yesterday. Here we go….

Wednesday, September 12^th

So today is the second to last day of my first week of classes. It was quite a rough day, mostly due to the fact that I had a total of 8 hours of class throughout the day spanning form 9:30am-7:00 pm and taking place in three separate locations. That being said, I can't complain for having the opportunity to take several (mandatory) strolls throughout Firenze in the midst of the madness that was today. So, my schedule today was photography (3 hours) followed by a rapidamente lunch (20 minutes), followed by Italian (2 hours), followed by my jewelry and metalsmithing class (3 hours).

I am quite proud to say that I successfully made the walk from the Jewlery studio, which I had never been to before, the whole way back to my house. Alto chinqui (high five's probably spelled and conjugated incorrectly) to me. When I finally arrived back home I was greeted by the incredible smell of Papa Valerios PESTO. Dinner tonight was as follows:

Pasta con pesto followed by wonderfully dressed, cooked vegetables and basically the most amazing Italian quesadilla ever invented: tortilla, mozzarella, prosciutto, and oregano. Warm and melty and amazing.  Brava Giovanna e Vilerio!

After dinner Lynsey, my roommate, and I returned to our room where we stretched, tried to rid ourselves of shin splints, and did some exercise-type-things and yoga.  And now I am in bed. Full, sleepy, and looking forward to meeting my art history class tomorrow morning in the Piaza di Republica, right by the Duomo and the Uffizi.

Sleep time. Ciao.

 [The lovely ladies I had the honor of rooming with during orientation]

[Fiesole--A town overlooking Florence about 10-15 minutes away from my home]

[Papa Leocatta at lunch]

Pre Departure-GOODBYE AMURICAAAAA!!!!!

Hello People.

Times are a changing for this lovely little blog of mine. I am leaving for a semester abroad TOMORROW and for the coming semester, which I will be spending in Florence, this will be the blog I use to post pictures(of amazing foooooood...and)/updates/stories/all sorts of lovely things of that nature. Just letting everyone know. It will continue to be photo-y but will probably become a bit more bloggy-bloggy for the few months that I am away. So...that is my story. And below is a picture (not taken by me...) that I thought was quite appropriate as a last night in America post. Goodbye my fellow AMURICANS. See you at Christmas!

Because I miss my Brenda (well...and because I have a disturbing number of photos of her)

Well, I was organizing photos today and realized just how many trillions of photos I have of ms. Brenda Palacios.

So...I thought it was about time I did (yet another) Brenda post.

And also I miss her. Because she is in Spain. Ah. Madness.

If you are reading this Brenda, I miss you and love you and cannot wait for out European playdates.

Muwahahaha.

Enjoy!

and I'm back

Well...my last post was quite some time ago. 

So many boos to me. I have been in the midst of all kinds of craziness and despite the fact that I have taken countless photos, as per usual, I have failed to be a good blog poster. But I am trying again.

Some of these might be repeats but these are the photos, and graphics images that I used for the portfolio I submitted to apply for the photo minor I am attempting to get into.

 [This is not a photo taken by me. I just did the design]

The assignment was to design the cover for a magazine (which you had to make up) 

and provide a cover which pertained to one of the central articles in the publication  

 

[This was a graphics assignment for which we had to design a series of web pages. 

I chose to do a photo site for myself.]

 [this is another part of the magazine assignment.

 Aligned differently because the design was for the iPad

 so we had to do each design both vertically and horizontally]

Professors and Puppys

so

this week I shot a story for my school's newspaper about professors 

who bring their dogs to class. 

as anyone who knows me can imagine I was

p   s   y   c   h   e   d

so here are some of the results from that

side note:  i am currently taking a graphics class  and have been thinking 

a lot more about words and how they appear on a page and toady i am

having an anti-capital letters thing. i don't know why but they just look 

gross to me so i am excluding them 

f r o m   t h i s   p o s t 

t    h    e      e    n    d

Woods by Bon Iver. Listen. Love. And look then at these if you feel so inclined

 

Night Lights

 One night during my photo lab we got to go out to Marshall Street, the main street near campus, were told to just go around and shoot. We went around 6:00 or a bit before so it was just beginning to get  dark when we got there and by the time we left it was almost entirely dark. I had such a fun time playing around with the light and the changes in the light which happened between when we came and left. It felt like someone had flipped a switch and in an instant the natural light, that had just moments ago been illuminating the streets, became darkness and was replaced by streetlights. The glow from the fluorescent storefront lights, which had been outdone by the sun throughout the day, transformed into eerie gigantic nightlights that illuminated little segments of the sidewalks. And I loved it. And here are some of the photos I took.

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And that's all.