Friday, October 2, 2009
One, $15,000, thing more
I also wrote a check for $15,000 this week. Tuition, yada yada. But seriously. That's pretty darn close to what I made in my first two years out of college combined. Thank you again to Mr. Tyng, whoever you were.
Verona & a little more
Ok ok, I'm being really slow at updating this. I am running out to go to a tango practica in a few minutes, so I'm going to go through this quick.
Oh, yeah, I joined a tango school here in Bologna, called "Il Tangueria." Obviously, everyone else there speaks Italian, so I figure it'll not only be good for tango, but also for learning italian. Plus, they gave me a pretty good discount, which was nice.
Last weekend a group of nine of us went to Verona, the city where Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet, to answer that question you didn't ask. We had a wonderful two and a half hour lunch before wandering through some of the streets, up into a castle in the hills, taking a little nap in a garden. We also visited "La Casa di Giulietta", which you might think is the actual house that inspired the balcony scene, but is actually a tourist trap founded around 1954. Still, curiosly, there is a statue of Giulietta inside the courtyard, and apparently it is considered good luck to get a picture of yourself groping the statue's chest. Seriously. There were lines of people just waiting to get a handful of poor Juliet (wasn't she like 13 years old?)
Two successes from Verona included realizing that Andrea Bocelli will be singing at the local theatre later in October, which will allow me to fulfill one of my goals of seeing him in Italy. Also, I found an Italian version of my favorite board game, Settlers of Catan, in a little store in Verona. We're going to have an inaugural Settlers night pretty soon.
As far as school goes, I've gone a little overboard and registered for 7 classes...Not that I actually plan on staying in all of them...or maybe...We'll see. I gathered all (most) of my reading for my first classes next week and plan on starting them on a train to Pisa tomorrow morning. The trips are likely going to start winding down in the coming weeks as classes start, so I have to get my obligatory picture of holding the tower up now.
That's the quick update. My tango school is holding a practica tonight, and myself and a few students who I'm trying to get addicted to tango are going. But I can't stay out too late. Early morning train to Pisa awaits!
Oh, yeah, I joined a tango school here in Bologna, called "Il Tangueria." Obviously, everyone else there speaks Italian, so I figure it'll not only be good for tango, but also for learning italian. Plus, they gave me a pretty good discount, which was nice.
Last weekend a group of nine of us went to Verona, the city where Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet, to answer that question you didn't ask. We had a wonderful two and a half hour lunch before wandering through some of the streets, up into a castle in the hills, taking a little nap in a garden. We also visited "La Casa di Giulietta", which you might think is the actual house that inspired the balcony scene, but is actually a tourist trap founded around 1954. Still, curiosly, there is a statue of Giulietta inside the courtyard, and apparently it is considered good luck to get a picture of yourself groping the statue's chest. Seriously. There were lines of people just waiting to get a handful of poor Juliet (wasn't she like 13 years old?)
Two successes from Verona included realizing that Andrea Bocelli will be singing at the local theatre later in October, which will allow me to fulfill one of my goals of seeing him in Italy. Also, I found an Italian version of my favorite board game, Settlers of Catan, in a little store in Verona. We're going to have an inaugural Settlers night pretty soon.
As far as school goes, I've gone a little overboard and registered for 7 classes...Not that I actually plan on staying in all of them...or maybe...We'll see. I gathered all (most) of my reading for my first classes next week and plan on starting them on a train to Pisa tomorrow morning. The trips are likely going to start winding down in the coming weeks as classes start, so I have to get my obligatory picture of holding the tower up now.
That's the quick update. My tango school is holding a practica tonight, and myself and a few students who I'm trying to get addicted to tango are going. But I can't stay out too late. Early morning train to Pisa awaits!
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