First Week of School

(Villa Rossa garden)

I've got to say, I'm the luckiest art history nerd I know.

Not a single one of my classes spends much time in a classroom. Out of my 5 classes this semester, 4 are art histories, and we either spend Monday in the classroom and Wednesday on site, or half the class in the classroom and the other half on site. It's amazing that I get to BE where the work of art IS. I still can't get over that fact. It's blowing my mind.

And then that 5th class that isn't an art history is my Italian 4 class that consists of the bulk of my schedule (it meets four times a week, where as most classes meet once or twice). And even that class spends a good majority of its meeting time in la clase di Firenze and utilize the city as our "Language Lab" to talk with locals and learn the vocabulary around us.

Because I'm taking so many art histories, I'm traveling almost every weekend with school, which is definitely a great thing! It means a lot of travel throughout Italy, which I'm thrilled with.

Even though I'm not planning on entering a career path as a restorator, and don't I plan on being a museum docent for very long, the professors have found a way to make Medieval and Renaissance art absolutely come alive. Have I mentioned that I cried the first time I saw Il Duomo?

And perhaps by the end of this semester I'll be able to spell Renaissance correctly without consulting spell-check.