Venezia/Month Two

!!! WELCOME TO VENEZIA!!!

What a beautiful place!

Ciao Everyone. Today is the 31st and thus marks the end of my second month here in Italy. I'm very excited.

I'm even more excited that I get to show you Venezia now. It has absolutly blown my mind! It's such a beautiful city! I'm in love! hehe he.

Now unfortulantly when I went we were there to see two Modern Art museums. But my teacher did take me, and the other exchange student from New Zeland on a fast tour of the city. Not to worry I get to go back for Carnival with my Rotary group. Can wait!!! So on to the photos!

Just thought this one was funny!

First of all Welcome to Piazza San Marco. This is the only technical 'plaza' in Venice...or the only open space. (Yes there is a rediculous amount of pigeons)

It was so beautiful. I have a lot more pictures of this place! It was awesome. I actually took over 200 photos of Venice while I was there. So you'll get to see more when I come home.

Now here are just some random pictures from all around Venice. They're not in any particular order. I just wanted you all to see how pretty it is!

We spent the whole day in Venice and didnt get home untill about 9pm
It was just an amazing day!

Now I have a bit of a surprise for all of you. I was able to get the video to work on my camera and computer! So I made a short video while in Venice. It's nothing spectacular but I hope you'll like it. I thought I was being clever but it didn't come out as well as I had hoped it would. But any way, Month two is over. I made it out alive once again! I can't wait to see what happens in November!

I also want to take a minute to be mushy gushy and say thanks to all of you for the support you gave me to get here and still are giving me. It really means a lot to me!

Ciao!

wow I'm making a weird face...oh well

Ciao!
Well sorry I havn't writen in quite some time. October has more or less been filled with getting used to school and continuing to learn the language. But I did go to Milan again the other day and on the 29th I'm going to Venice with my school. I'm very excited about that! Don't worry I'll remember to post pictures about that as well. So moving on. Went to Milan again with Rotary to see Leonardo's painting of The Last Supper. Absoultly amazing! I learned soo much! Unfortunatly because it is so fragile I was not able to take any pictures of it. Bummer. Any way. So I'm still making friends. And the Language is coming along! Oh and I acidently broke my camera. Funny story. Anyway. Still takes pictures but the screen is broken so I can see the pictures I take until I put them on my computer. So if things are a little out of focus, dark, or uncented... I apologize

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Another fun thing about my camera is that I can't turn the flash off. So I actually got in a bit of trouble for taking these pictures... Sorry Italian museum.

So to the Left we have the lid to a tomb for the count who
had the castle we were in built. He had it made while he was alive to make sure it potrayed him the way he saw himself. Below is just another random tomb top. To the left is a huge beautiful tapastry. Unfortunately I don't know anytyhing about it or the other amazing tapastrys in that room. We were on a tour with a guild and weren't aloud to stop and stare at what we wanted. So There was a lot I missed but plan on going back.

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We also went back to the palace that we went and toured the first time. This time we went on a real tour though and got some time afterwards to walk around on our own. (this is the palace with the tomb with the guy on the horse)

Its really so beautiful. Its hard to imagine that long ago people lived here and it was there home. I have millions of other pictures of this place but it's hard to organize that many pictures on just one little blog. So I'll probably be adding even more pictures on my facebook at the end of October. If you have a facebook and we're not friends just go and request me. Id love for you all to see the rest of my pictures.

Oh and here is the dome of the chruch of the monestary where the Last Supper was painted. I was to scared to take any other pictures. Don't laugh. But it was really really amazing I regret not taking more pictures.

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So last but not least a nice general update.

School is going good but normal now. My art classes are really great and chalanging. Right now we're working on basic paintings in my painting class. So basicaly we're painting a lot of fruits and veggies. In my drawing class we've finished learning about the muscles in hands legs arms and feet and are now learning on the face muscles. This is so we can draw faces with emotions more acurately. So actually the other day we spent the entire 2 hours of drawing class taking pictures of each other makeing randome emotions with on our faces. The teacher wanted someone to sit in a chair and make weird faces while everyone took their picture. Now one would. So me being as meish as I am got up and sat down in the chair. Haven't laughed to hard in quite some time. Then in my sculpting class... well we just started using clay so the past two days we had to prepare the clay to use for a base. Another amazingly funny 2 hours that consisted of us punching, hammering, and mushing clay into a box. Also chasing after eachother threatening to touch each others faces. So the art classes are fun. Other wise, classes are just normal. The teachers talk really really fast and I can't keep up.

As far as Italian friends go all my classmates are really really nice to me! I also had my first sleepover! My friend Giulia came over to my house for a night. I made a big traditional American breakfast for dinner. She thought it was great. It was really fun. She also told me my accent isn't to horrific which made my month.

Well thats about it for now. I'll be writing again after I go to Venice so check back soon.

Oh and I've also had some requests to take pictures of my and my family, as well as my school. I'll deffinatly work on that. If anyone else would like to request a type of photo I'll see what I can do.

Love you all and thanks for checking up on me again. Sorry I didn't write for a while.

Ciao!