What do you mean he don’t eat no meat? Oh, that’s okay, I make lamb.
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized
My Big Fat Greek Wedding… anyone? Love it.
I was debating between titling this post “It’s all Greek to me!” or that.
Who can guess where my mind is? Woah, sorry to make this all interactive.
Anyway, I finished my midterms… which means I get to go to Greece now!! My hand feels like it wrote a novel. Well, maybe just a couple chapters. But they were good chapters! I hope. It’s been a while between my finishing of midterms and when I last updated this thing!
We went to the chocolate festival in Perugia! I have since finished all the chocolate I bought for myself. Twas amazing. There were so many people there!! We did go on the first day of the festival, so it was expected, and we still had a really good time.
Then I woke up one Sunday to more than the usual chatter of people walking around the Piazza del Mercato outside our apartment (it is basically a big covered area, where the city used to hold an outdoor market on a regular basis, but now it is just a big covered area where young kids hang out at night, and a little boy practices his contrada drumming some afternoons). I looked outside the window, and already by 8am an antique market was already set up, complete with groups of men standing around smoking cigars, women with bags ready to fill with trinkets, children crowding around tables full of trading cards and disney figurines, and tourists being first baffled by why there were boxes of people’s old family photos for sale but then more confused as why they felt compelled to buy them all. We eventually made our way down there, and were amazed every table, and the only thing stopping us from buying everything was some of the prices. Apparently this takes place every third Sunday of the month, but we must have missed it last month when we were traveling. I was able to find an adorable old copy of Alice nel paese delle meraviglie (Alice in Wonderland). She is a big fan, and it was her birthday present!
Last week we went to Pienza, a nearby town, with our program for a field study. It is the town that Pope Pius II was born in, and had completely renovated into, basically, a monument to himself and his family, the Piccolomini. Long story short, it is a tiny tiny town, only a couple blocks, and the view is amazing! I could get into the social and artistical significance of the city during the 1400s, but my brain still hurts a little bit.
Alright, I am off to Milan tomorrow evening by bus, and we fly out early early Saturday morning to Athens! Then we’ll take a ferry to Paros, yay, where someone from the hotel will meet us, and take us to where we need to be 
But now… I sleep.
I’ll be back in a week!! (From Greece… not sleeping)
Ciao ciao!
Tricia
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