In a month, so it'll be a while before anything of interest happens on the English front, but it's still ever so slightly my reason for life right now. I fly into London, take a train and spend a wonderful weekend with one of my very best friends at Oxford. Sleeping on her floor for free. Yay for freeness.
Life's been kind of put more or less on hold lately because both of my banks are acting idiotic. One more or less doesn't acknowledge me as a customer (aka, doesn't let me sign in online) and the other has frozen but un-frozen but hasn't really my account. Woot! I've been literally penniless for a week now, but I finally have 50euro of my very own! I'm doing a happy dance for Bank of America!
I spent an amazing weekend with my Italian class in Umbria. We stopped in Cortona, Assissi, Spoleto, Orvieto--I think that was it, but I'm not entirely sure. I will put pictures up of the utterly breath-taking views, but unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries half-way through the trip, so there aren't as many pictures as there could have been. (I would have bought more batteries, but I had no money for some reason...)
I descended the 258 stairs down the St. Patrick Well, which is only named for St. Patrick because it resembles caves in Ireland (I think possibly I maybe got through the Italian text?) The views were spectacular, but even I'm getting tired of words like this. Breath-taking, beautiful, pretty even. I need to find new synonyms.
My art restoration class went into the church at Santa Croce. I feel like it's really the only place I've seen any hint at the flood (whose anniversary is coming up Nov. 4). You can see the water line on the walls, the paintings are still undergoing restoration (which made it ideal for my art RESTORATION class). It's amazing how high the water got. Ah, memories of New Orleans houses.
If my banking gets sorted, I have an incredibly free weekend at the end of the week. Pompeii sounds like a good place to head (if it stops raining.) We shall see.
Pictures soon!
1 comment:
I'm so glad you got to see/do something truly related to restoration! Perfect. And the views don't sound bad, either. ;)
And hey -- AIR MATTRESS. Which, come to think of it, I should probably test. Heh. I'll get back to you.
Alllllsooooo... I don't know if we'll have time for it in this UTTERLY CRAM-PACKED SPLENDIFEROUS WEEKEND we've got goin' here, buuuuut, how does an easing-into-Thanksgiving-and-Christmas-bliss sound to you? (I know, so specific. But it really does depend on what we have time for. Buahaha.) One way or another, I think some extent of holidayness and a prelude to winter adventures are in order!
Love,
Kim
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