This turned out to be a terrible decision, not because the campus isn't beautiful, which it is, but in order to get to the class building, you have to walk down a very steep hill, and then walk back up it on the other side. This, coupled with really ridiculously painfully hot weather, kind of blows. At least, within minutes of that walk, I passed out for about three hours, and now I'm on some sort of a normal sleeping schedule (though it's 8 AM here, and I've been up for an hour. So not that normal of a sleeping schedule).
Afterwards, we went to dinner with our two roommates (Tim and Tim, I shit you not). We have another two beds in the room which are empty; they'll probably be occupied when the other programs start in a week or two. The room itself is just one open space, with bunk beds on one side, and two bunk beds on the other, and six desks back to back in the middle (3 and 3). The bathroom has two showers with a piece of barely non-transparent plastic between them, which should make for fun mornings.
At dinner we met everyone else who's here from the program right now, so far just the Writing Florence kids, acting kids, and a grad-student nutritionist program where they go around Italy and eat food (best class ever). Dinner was in the cafeteria, and it was surprisingly good, and then afterwards a bunch of us took the bus into town, got gelato, walked around the duomo, then waited forty five minutes for a bus back which never came, and wound up taking a taxi. Apparently the busses are always that unreliable.
On a much more important but completely unrelated note:
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/05/nathan-fillio-2.html
This is the coolest thing in the world.
The sparse living quarters are designed for you to focus on writing...or plans for a daring escape...no, wait, that's from The Great Escape.
ReplyDeleteTim and Tim, huh. That's just too sitcom-y.
BTW, I thought they'd already cast the GL movie?