This week in classes was just a normal week. We're getting into the swing of things now with midterms over the next few weeks and projects starting to build up, so it's been a little tiring. I need to work on sleeping more! The time difference is hard because I want to talk to everyone back home, but they don't get online until the early evening THEIR time, so that's +6 hours here! But it's worth it... I can sleep when I die :)
Monday I was super super tired from getting home late the night before, but the yoga class went really well. They finally completed the new gym, so we were in that space which was cool! I got there early because I was afraid I'd get lost, so I practiced some intense inversions (meaning the rest of the week my body was sore out the wazoo. perfecting the forearm stand, scorpion, and handstand is worth it though!). It was a lot louder in this space compared to the temporary room, though, because it's an open room that connects on 2 sides to the weight room and machines, and you just pull a curtain over the openings for the class. So the music's blasting and the machines are loud and people are having conversations, oh boy! It was still a nice class though. At least the space is bigger so we can fit everyone nicely.
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| second official printed picture! |
Photography was fun, like always! We learned a little about photoshop, scanning our negatives into the computer using this funny little machine, then editing out the dust and scratches. It was neat! After our mini lecture we had the rest of the class to either develop film, print pictures, or walk around outside and finish our rolls. I worked on printing another picture from Prague. This time I went through the whole procedure and spent a lot of time perfecting the picture, so it came out really nicely! It's one of my favorite frames on the roll - it's of a love bridge Ashley and I found. People lock their engraved or initialed locks on the bridge and take the keys with them, symbolizing that they have the key to eachothers heart :) I love it. Jada and I found a mini love bridge in Paris, and apparently there's one in Rome, too. I'll have to keep my eye out!
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| printed picture with all my test strips |
Tuesday I wasn't feeling well. My body was hating on me for going going going nonstop on zero sleep. I woke up and felt terrible - major headache, my body was achey, stuffy nose, and the beginnings of a cough. NO NO NO I will not be sick in Rome!! So I made the executive decision that my health was the most important thing, and walking around in the chilly morning for 3 hours would not be beneficial. SO I emailed my professor and took my first sick day. One of my friends in the class let me borrow her notes from the day, so I should be okay. Sometimes you have to take care of yourself first and foremost!
It was definitely a good decision. I still got up at the same time I would for class, but I rested in bed, drank lots of water and orange juice, and got ahead on homework for the week. I also did a nice restorative yoga practice and long meditation. A lovely health-awareness morning for Kelsey. I made it to painting in the afternoon since painting class is a lot less intense than an on-site in the cold, and finished up my still life. Yay! Next week is our critique, we'll see how it goes.
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| completed still life! i took it with my ipod so the pictures a little blurry. sorry! |
I got in bed nice and early on Tuesday, and woke up feeling a little better Wednesday. Thank goodness! I don't want to speak too soon, though..still trying to flush it out with water and rest up. Honors class in the morning, then fresco in the afternoon. Our homework for fresco was to do our first actual painting! This meant we had to do the 2nd and 3rd layers of morter (sandcoat and intonico), wait for those to dry, then paint on top of it. Debbie and I went in on Thursday to do ours, and it took over 3 hours. Lots of waiting around for the walls to dry. But the painting turned out nicely! I love little putti (the chubby angels in a lot of the artwork in Italy), so I attemped to paint one. I definitely have some work to do before it's perfected, but it was a solid first attempt.
So for the class period we planned out the layout for the whole room. For some reason, I was put in charge of dimensions of everything...math is NOT my forte, but we'll see if I come through successfully. The class decided on doing a landscape kind of scene with hills that roll from one wall space to the next, with thin columns separating each person's part of the wall, and a uniform top and bottom border. Next week's the midterm, but we start on the final frescoing the week after that! It will take the rest of the semester to finish these big scenes. It will be SOOO cool to see the room once we finish, I can't wait!!
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| first fresco painting! |
Tomorrow the plan is to get some homework done, then I'm meeting my friend Phoebe from photography in the dark room to print a few photos. It's so crazy in the dark room during class because everyone's trying to do the same thing at once, so we figured we'd get a head start and have some room to do our own thing. I'm really enjoying photography, so I'm super excited to be able to print more pictures. Then this weekend I'm heading to Florence with API! I am extremely excited about this, because I was choosing between studying in Florence and Rome so it will be cool to see how they're different.
Until next time mi amores, arrivederci!
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