Uffizi

Today, John and I woke up later than planned and walked over to the Uffizi gallery. It was actually pretty amazing see all the art because they set it up in chronological order so that you can see the changes in time. Some of highlights were Giottos Madonna and Child Enthroned and basically all of Bottocellis amazing paints. Spring and Birth of the Venus were so great to see becAuse they have so much detail and Boticelli has such a soft style it makes it very peaceful. After the gallery we went back, I took a shower finally!(it has been awhile :p) then we had our poetry class. We focused on a couple of poems, an I actually really enjoyed this class. The theme of the poems were that they all were written About pieces of art, so we got in o discussion of whether art or words is more powerful, then we played a game similar to faxachine where you write a phrase, everyone draws, writes what they think, and it gets really funny until you get it back. Mine was, a fish flying over Florence with a balloon, and the last phrase I got when it came back to me was, the clown takes pleasure in basketball. H
ha it was really funny. Then we basically skipped art history because our class was going to the uffizi, so I went back to my room and Dana and I learned a bunch of new guitar songs like come away with me by Norah jones and an india Ariel song, it was really fun! Then our whole group went to a pretty sweet club and danced or a long time, now I am really tired an need to sleep because we have a busy day tomorrow!

I miss everyone!

Song of the Day

Bill Withers - ain't no sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo

French word of the day

ciao- hello/ goodbye (even though it is really Italian!) they use it in France too)