Giant Killer Squids

Everyone!!

Amy does NOT look thrilled to

be next to that creepy Italian man.

Me, Britt, Alexa and Caroline

me and the birthday girl!!!!!

Hello friends! It has been quite a while. This has been a very busy week. I started classes this week and besides western civ, I love all my classes. My favorites are probably going to be photography, film, and baroque sculpture. In photography we have this awesome teacher named Lorenzo Pesci (google him!) He is a professional photographer and showed us a ton of his stuff in fashion magazines and books and stuff. He is young and hip haha so he will be a great teacher. Our Baroque Sculpture teacher is a young girl who is sooooo passionate about art history. She gets really emotional and really takes her time to find the perfect words to describe a work of art. She is my only American teacher. In film we watched Birth of a Nation which was so racist but really an interesting film to see. It was a silent film by D.W. Griffith released in 1915. I think it was one of the first American motion pictures released.

We had dinner as a family ever night and I absolutely love the girls I am living with. We always end up sitting at the dinner table for hours having the most bizarre conversations. The most common topic of conversation revolved around giant killer squids, snake head fish, and sharks. I am now deathly afraid of the water.... more so than I allready was. I have more to fear than just sharks apparently.

Wednesday night the girls and I went to an apartment just down the street where these nice boys cooked us dinner. They are interesting fellows. Two of them are from new jersey and are extreme guidos. One is a wicked creep who is in looove with Alexa, one is in loooove with Britt, and one never comes out of his room. He just sits by himself and talks to his girlfriend on skype 24/7. I think it's cute. Then yesterday (thursday) was Caroline's birthday. The girls and I cooked a delicious dinner of pasta with alfredo sauce, chicken, and broccoli. Then we went out and met the boys at their apartment and all went out to an awesome bar somewhere. This place was so much better than art cafe in that there were tons of Americans (a bunch from AUR!) and there was room to move. Caroline had millions of Italian men after her the whole night and she had a very very happy start to her birthday.

Today we are going to go do some sight seeing and then go out again! I will update again soon :-)

p.s. more photos soon!