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This Is Where I Live

16/9/2012

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A view of Siena during our exploration of the city
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My House!!! We are on the first floor of this apartment building. We have a cute little room, with our beds right next to each other. It's like a sleepover ever day haha
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This is the fountain for the Unicorn Contrada. Forzo Leocorno! Leocorno was my contrada for the BYU palio.
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This guy was driving up the street to go pick up some newlyweds leaving the church. I am only standing 4 feet away. This car literally only comes up 4 feet off the ground
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the mail box
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a street performer. He was really good.
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a street artist. When we first arrived there was a different drawing in this same spot. It rained two days later. I think he must do drawings here a lot
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The gang at the Campo. Meeting up to go get gelato and go exploring
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A contrada flag with other flags. These folks a very spirited :D
Yep. This is Siena.Basically I love it. It's gorgeous here and I wish  BYU was here permanently. I feel like I go to the Italian version of Hogwarts. My school has courtyards and vaulted ceilings, marble stairs, and brightly colored walls, and an excellent view of the countryside. I'll post more pictures of school soon.
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First Cooking Class

16/9/2012

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First Day of School

11/9/2012

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So today was part orientation, part classes. We got shown around a bit by Luca, the Italian Director in charge of arranging our study abroad on the Italian end.  Then we had class this afternoon for an hour and a half. Tomorrow i have cooking class and then free time. Pretty excited for it all.
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So it was just our luck that we miscommunicated with our host mom and we ended up being late this morning. We were ready on time, but ended up not understanding things so we arrived a few minutes late. Sad day huh?
The rest of the day went well though.
Soon we will head back to the house and have dinner with the host family. It is a bit of an ordeal considering how bad both of our Italian skills are. It could be way worse. Our mom is nice though, so that's good. She is very patient with us and tries to speak a bit slower when trying to tell us something. Luckily Sharissa is really good at spanish and can understand a bit more than me. Sadly it means she also replies in spanish a lot.
We'll figure it out eventually.
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On To Bigger And Better Things

10/9/2012

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So I am going to skip over the stuff we did on the weekend, because honestly they aren't particularly significant, apart from the part where we ate more gelato than was good for us, slept a lot, and I watched Roman Holiday on my last night in Rome.

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The final gelato run at Giolitti's I got apple, cinnamon, and cream flavors Delicious :D
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Church on Sunday morning, then packing in the afternoon
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Oh Gregory Peck, why didn't I run into you on my trip to Rome?

This morning we woke up at 6:30, finished packing and got loaded on to the bus. We made a pit stop in Orviento where we visited the duomo, and got some lunch. Then on to Siena!!! We arrived around 3:30 in the afternoon and were picked up by our families. My friend Sharissa and I are living with a older, middle aged woman. Her son and niece were there when we arrived. They live just down the street from her. She showed us around, gave us keys, and then left to go run errands. After settling in, we decided to make the pilgrimage to an internet cafe.
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Duomo in Orvieto.
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Ancient Statues on Youtube - Day 10 Thursday

8/9/2012

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Today we went to 2 more church that we have to write about for class. They are part of the counter reformation where the Catholic Church was trying to prove that it was okay to have a lot of money if you used it to help people come to God.

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The church on the left is designed by the artist Boromini
The one above was designed by..... Bernini I believe.
After the two churchs, we went to a museum with lots of statues and such. As you probably can guess a lot of them were reproductions. Surprise surprise. Several where the real thing though so that was cool :)
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This is a real mosaic from an ancient Roman building. Transferred to the museum to preserve it better
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A reproduction of the discus thrower
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So this statue looks exactly like the guy from the video below
After the organized part of our day we went to H&M and did some shopping ate at a cute little street restaurant got some more gelato and stopped in at toy stores haha
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Brittany's gorgeous sweater. ( She did not buy it, no worries)
At H&M I found a pencil skirt that I can wear to church and a blue cardigan for when it gets cold. My gelato flavor count has risen to 12. Maybe next time I will list them all out.
Love to you all! <3
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Parks and Rec - Day 9 Wednesday

6/9/2012

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Today we started out going to the Villa Bourghese which is a giant park with an old mansion on the top. we walked the park then went to the “house” where there is an art gallery. It was very beautiful and we saw several Bernini statues there. Those were incredible! Absolutely gorgeous and so realistic. I’m kind of in love. I think he is one of my new favorite sculptors. Then we went to the National Modern Art Museum which had many famous names. We had to take notes, to write up analyses later as homework. Then we went to a church with Bernini statues and Carravaggio paintings. They were beautiful as well. Then we were done touring for the day and headed home for a bit. Later we went out to a nice sit down place for dinner. Then we went to Giolitti's for gelato. I've been there about 4 times now. some for gelato some for other desserts. Altogether I've been to four places for gelato and I have tried 7 flavors. One girl in the group has tried 18 flavors.

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Rain Rain Go Away - Day 8 Tuesday 

6/9/2012

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Today we walked through the rain, stood in the rain, and waited in the rain. In between all of this rain we saw The St. Paul Basilica called St. Paul Outside the Wall. It was amazing. Cavernous ceilings and an endless nave. We also saw the cloister where they  have a monastery. Afterwards we hiked through the rain to the catacombs and saw those. It was a bit creeping, very interesting, and made you grateful not to be an early Christian.

Afterward we waited for an hour in the rain at the bus stop. It was late but we did eventually make it back home soaking wet. During our long wait a giant caravan of official looking embassy type cars drove past with a police escort and a helicopter escort. I don’t know what happened but it must have been important.

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Potatoe Pizza. It was like having rosemary hashbrowns on pizza
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Hot chocolate from McDonalds :D hahaha
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Oh the rain. We have a love hate relationship. Actually. Scratch that. It's just a hate relationship.
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School Work Begins - Day 7 Monday

6/9/2012

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Today we went to the St. Peter in Chains church. We saw the chains that held peter captive, as well as the tomb of Pope Julius designed by Michealangelo. Then we went to a different church with Carravaggio paintings. We had to write notes about the painting as part of class which we will use to write up an analysis of the piece of work. Then we headed to Piazza Navonna talked about the fountain there and then split up for the day. We went to the shopping district and saw a few things then came home for the night.

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St. Peter in Chains
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Brittany and Me in front of the fountain at Piazza Navonna. The different figures on the fountain represent the four rivers (Nile, Tiber, and 2 others I can't remember)
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Tivoli - Day 5 Saturday 

6/9/2012

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We went to Tivoli and Villa d’Este, a small city outside of Rome, out in the country. We took the train there. Saw the beautiful gardens there. and wrote about how they realated to paradise and the garden of Eden for one of our classes
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Can I just nerd out for a bit?
I rode a train. On September 1st. Does that ring any bells?
If you don't know what I mean, just think about it for a while.
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My friend Brittany overlooking the town from the Villa we visted
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Breaking News

3/9/2012

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                                           I interrupt our usually broadcasting schedule to bring you this vital update:
                                                                           I FOUND A GROCERY STORE!!!
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Isn't it beautiful? Up until this point I had only been able to find little markets and specialized shops, and now I know the truth. I have found the light! Thanks goodness someone realized that Europe needed a version of Walmart
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