Finally some updated pictures!

St. Catherine's Basilica

Il Duomo - finally a nice day to take a picture of it!

The Bottini or the aqueduct system underneath the city

What you've all been waiting for - a picture of the snow that we got. Not much right?

Sorry it took me so long to upload pictures, but here are some! Now you can see that we really didn't get that much snow and yet had 3 snow days.

Today I had my Italian class, which I'm really beginning to like. I really want to learn Italian and be able to communicate with store owners a bit. It would also be cool to ask someone for directions and be able to understand them. My Italian teacher is awesome and I love that she is really patient with us and it seems like she really likes what she does. I had my first Presence of the Past class today, which was mainly an introduction to the course. Tomorrow we are going on a field trip (I don't remember where...) which I am excited for. There are two sections for this course - one that is taught in English and one that is taught in Italian. Since I am in the intermediate Italian class, I was given the option to take Presence of the Past in Italian, but I decided not to. I didn't want to not understand something or have to take any tests in Italian. I don't want to fail a test because I don't understand the language, especially if I know the material. I also want to get something out of this class and I don't think I would get that if I took it in Italian. My third class of the day was The Black Death one. We watched a movie the entire time, and I was a little confused as to how it related to our class. There was one small portion of it that talked about the Black Death, but that was it. It was in Portuguese, so we had English subtitles. It was really odd and the subtitles were a little off. I'm really hoping that this class gets better and that I will find the material interesting, even though the teacher talks really slow. Tomorrow is market day, which I'm really excited for since it was cancelled last week. I love Wednesdays, mainly because of the market!