We had a full schedule today beginning at 10am with Mona’s class of Gift and Sacrifice where we had an in depth discussion about Goethe’s fruit basket based on Marcel Mauss’s interpretation of the gift.
At 11:30 we took our lunch break and many of us bought sandwiches at a nearby deli in the Campo de’ Fiori.
We then crossed the Campo to eat them at one of the apartments which houses 8 of the girls. This particular apartment is exceptionally spacious and overlooks the ever-bustling Campo.
45 minutes later we were back in class to finish off Mona’s class with a lecture on Marshall Sahlin’s response to Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu’s Outline of a Theory of Practice until we were released at 2:00.
Art History class began at 3:00 and we had two speakers, Mayme Marshall and ME! Mayme gave an excellent presentation on Tajan’s Column, Forum, and Marketplace.
I had to follow her with my talk on the Pantheon. I was really nervous coming into the presentation. I’ve never been much of one for public speaking but I had my notes in front of me, which was very reassuring. It’s so true that the build up was so much worse than the actual presentation. Once I begun talking everything just flowed out naturally. What a relief to be done so early in the program!
Following class Lisa, our Art History professor, took us all out for gelatos, two scoops! There were over 100 flavors but I settled on white chocolate and champagne. The champagne choice was mostly out of curiosity and it turned out to honestly taste just like the real thing! Nothing sweet or particularly smooth about it, the true bitter nature of champagne was unmistakable.
When it got a little later my roommates and I all went out for a “Family Dinner” of pizza and lasagna. The food in Italy is to die for and I can not figure out why we cannot reproduce this level of deliciousness in the states.
Directly following dinner we met up with a group of the girls from one of the other apartments and walked to the Spanish Steps.
The Steps are gorgeous at night and the weather was very cooperative keeping stars in the sky and the temperature in the mid 60’s.
All in all it was a great day to be in Rome. We are always so busy here it is hard to imagine we have time for anything else. Ciao!
No comments:
Post a Comment