Today was our first field trip of the week, we had to get up really early and be on the bus by 6:30 am (way to early when we are normally starting classes at 9:30). Once we all made it to the bus we were then off on our way to Deruta where we would get the opportunity to tour a pottery factory and see all the stages of how to turn clay into something so elegant and beautiful. It was amazing to get to walk through one of the most famous factories from the 1900's. ...

Today is start of week 4. I never thought that when they told us that after the first 2 weeks that time would begin to really fly by.. it wasn't until today that I realized this. In many ways it made me sad because that just means that we are that much closer to leaving, yet at the same time its that much time that I have been on my own and had time to grow in my own direction. Today was another day of long classes; mostly learning about art and history. It wasn'...

Today we were headed back home to Ariccia. After breakfast at the hotel we were all dreading the terrible walk back up the cliffs with our luggage to the top where we were to meet our bus driver. The hotel staff was nice enough to take our luggage halfway up so we didn't have to completely kill ourselves, that was nice of them but OMG that was way to many steep stairs- I tried to keep count of exactly how many stairs we climbed but after 450 something I lost cou...

Today we were headed back home to Ariccia. After breakfast at the hotel we were all dreading the terrible walk back up the cliffs with our luggage to the top where we were to meet our bus driver. The hotel staff was nice enough to take our luggage halfway up so we didn't have to completely kill ourselves, that was nice of them but OMG that was way to many steep stairs- I tried to keep count of exactly how many stairs we climbed but after 450 something I lost cou...

Today we were headed back home to Ariccia. After breakfast at the hotel we were all dreading the terrible walk back up the cliffs with our luggage to the top where we were to meet our bus driver. The hotel staff was nice enough to take our luggage halfway up so we didn't have to completely kill ourselves, that was nice of them but OMG that was way to many steep stairs- I tried to keep count of exactly how many stairs we climbed but after 450 something I lost cou...