Stopping By

With a heavy load of schoolwork in my final month here and trying to spend as much time as I can enjoying the beautiful spring weather and seeing as much as I can before I go I have to apologize for being so remiss around here. I’ll try to update with some recent news and will post about my field trip to Rome when I get around to finishing what I began to write when I first arrived home.

This past Tuesday my friend Elena from Guilford visited with four of her friends that she was traveling with. It was really good to see her and I’m glad that she and her friends enjoyed Perugia, as I was a little worried since there aren’t a ton of things to do here. They were all really nice and I showed them various views, got gelato, and had the meter long pizza for dinner since the nice restaurant that I wanted to take them to didn’t open soon enough so that they could catch their train on time. In fact, when I went to make reservations and asked for one at 5:15 the man stared at me like I was completely crazy. I think I stuttered out something about “there is a train” before just saying thank you and walking away.



This week we have finally been printing out a few photos in photography and it’s been so fun to actually see them in larger sizes. There’s something really special about seeing something that you’ve made be presented in a way that makes it seem professional.

Last week or so I picked classes for the fall and was pleased that I got all the ones I was hoping to get. I'm taking Shakespeare, a senior year seminar on literature with theme of the American dream, Islam, and Japanese Buddhism (which I'm particularly excited about since I get to learn about Samurai and such). This means that I only have two requirements for English left and have a minor in religious studies.

Below I am also posting a few older photos from Breakfest, the festival that Perugia had last month, and pictures from the snow storm that occurred on the first day of spring.


A woman fishing for milk bottles.


My breakfast.


Liz and I playing in the snow at night.


With my snowman friend.


Chris chatting with the snowman.


This Thursday Chris and I are traveling to Pisa and the following day we will be hiking three of the hills of Cinque Terre. Unfortunately, it’s supposed to rain, but we couldn’t change the date so we’ll have to make the best of it. (Still, I won’t object if you’d like to pray for some good weather!). Also, after a long day of hiking we will return to Perugia after the MiniMetro and buses have stopped running (at only 9 o’clock at night) so we will then have to wearily hike up the hill Perugia is on in order to get home.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a very happy Easter!