I wrote the original outline for this post over the Atlantic, but I didn’t find the time to actually complete it until now. Two months later. This is just a bunch of assorted things I found interesting, intriguing, or just plain weird about Italy. Cats. Cats were very much fed and cared for by the community. The Lago Argentina […]
Read more →Final week! Unfortunately this post will not be very exciting as most of what happened was school-related. Monday, September 21st, 2009 So begins the last day of classes. In the morning we visited the “Supreme Court” for Italy. Supreme court is in quotes because we actually visited the last appellate court, which does *not* consider constitutional […]
Read more →Monday, September 14th, 2009 This was the first class with Professor Lovell, who is a pretty neat guy that has a snarky sense of humor, a love of all things Supreme Court, and vaguely looks like me. After class was our first interview for the group project. After class we talked with an Italian blogger and journalist who […]
Read more →Thursday, September 10th, 2009 The day before our Florence trip, and possible trip to Venice, so after class Rachel and I went to the library to try and figure out where we were going to stay. A big group of students in our group were going to stay in a duplex that was registered to one person, which I was […]
Read more →Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Dom, Rain, Rachel and I had originally planned go to a market on the other side of the river, leaving at 7:30am. I was exhausted and quite sunburned, so I already decided not to go when they woke me up at 10:30 (three hours later than planned) and asked if I was still going. I couldn’t resist… so […]
Read more →Wednesday, Septemer 2nd, 2009 After the usual class with Professor Walsh, I then worked on my Italian homework, which was to translate a biography of an individual our group is interviewing, and then to find out how to get to the interview location. After successfully finding it without too much trouble (it is near the Pantheon and Chamber […]
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