We walked from campus to the Piazza San Marco (or something of that nature), which is about halfway between us and the Duomo, right on the outskirts of the actual city center. Then we turned right, walked through some outdoor market surrounding some church (you can see pictures if you follow the links in the below post), and then made our way to the river. You can climb down the wall on the side of the river if you want to sunbathe on the dam that cuts across it, so we climbed down and took a bunch of pictures (if you proportionally measured our time in each location, we probably spent the most amount of time posing for photos with a penis which someone graffiti'd on the side wall of the river-- you can also see pictures of that, too).
We got gelato at some point, and walked across Ponte Vecchio (I have no idea if that's how it's spelled, or if that's even exactly what it's called), then went to the Ufizi to take pictures with the statues (the Perseus killing Medusa is by far my favorite-- I also asked one of the dosants in Italian what it was, which made me feel awesome that I at least tried to use a little Italian). There's one statue of some dude beating the shit out of a Centaur (half-man, half-horse), and in one of my more inappropriate moments, I cured up the Centaur scene in Step Brothers, where Dale is a Centaur and he makes out with Alice, a Wood Nymph, and held it up next to the statue to see the comparison (whoever sculpted it was clearly inspired by Adam McKay's film). Then we walked around the Duomo, and back to Villa Natalia (where we live) to eat free dinner. Afterwards, most of the acting kids watched Twilight, and a bunch of us went back out, walking exactly where we walked during the day, to get gelato again by the Duomo. There, me and Tony, who have been faux-lightsaber battling with the lightsaber applications on our iPhones all around Florence, decided that we're going to buy toy lightsabers somewhere (I'm sure, somewhere in Italy, they're available), buy a boombox, cue of Duel of the Fates (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaiEHNv2g6w), and lightsaber battle up the steps leading to the top of the Duomo. So, if suddenly there ceases to be any more posts on this blog, it's likely because I'm in Italian prison for desecrating a church with a lightsaber battle (which will be worth it-- how many people can say "I went to Italian prison for desecrating a church with a lightsaber battle?"). We've already probably made a bad name for Americans by doing this with our phones on the sidewalks and bridges, all the while screaming "UNLIMITED POWERRRRR" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCznGaex2c&feature=related), and "I'LL NEVER RULE THE UNIVERSE WITH YOU!!"
Also, I bought one of those zipper things where you lurch a round light-up frisbee upwards off of it, and it flies off into the air. It's really really really really cool, and I don't care if it makes me five years old to say so (that seems to be the big thing that guys sell on the streets at night, so you see literally dozens of them flying around in the air in the Piazzas). We rode the Merry-Go-Round, which was much more fun than you'd think, and just walked around a bit more (pictures of this should come soon, I didn't have my camera so I'm waiting for others to post them). We also passed a group of many 20 Americans, our age, drinking blatantly in the Piazza in front of the Uffizi (which is technically legal, but it was clear they were just having a party outside, and they were really loud and obnoxious, and I'm half surprised they weren't arrested, and half upset I wasn't with them).
That's about it from yesterday. Tex and I spent most of the day quoting Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and today it's raining, so I'm staying in to read scripts on imsdb.com (Independence Day first), since we have to read a feature script for class tomorrow.
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