Wait...We're Here for School??

Well, today was a shock to the system as we began our first day of class this morning (after spending the past five days touring Italy and eating gelato). This whole week is "Intensive Italian," meaning that we spend the week reviewing/re-learning all the Italian we should know. We sit in the classroom for 2 hours in the morning, then go out into Florence for a 2 hour "Uscita" ('going out') which is hands-on learning (such as being made to ask Italian strangers for directions, order food in Italian, navigate through a libreria [bookstore] and find certain books, etc.), and end the school day with 2 more hours in the classroom. This is the routine Monday through Friday this week, and the regular class schedule begins next Monday. Nothing too exciting happened today, except that I got to meet up with Becca Thompson (who is studying in Italy for a semester) this morning and go for a run with her through a park in Florence. I wish I had more to write about so that I could procrastinate doing homework a while longer, but unfortunately I do not...ciao!