A little break

So last blog had ended with the entire class going to Florence and just us enjoying ourselves when we were there. It was really a lot of fun.

This blog will only cover 4 days and won't be too long. It just covers from Monday, October 22nd, up to Thursday, October 25th.

The week didn't consist of much. We did our Italian class in the mornings which is  the same things as always. Another language that is difficult to learn for people that only know one. The rest consisted of us actually finishing up firing our clay pieces. Most of the week consisted of getting them out of the kiln and cleaning up the clay room to make it look like no one was there.

We did have critiques with the class and individually with the professor. We took pretty much a whole day and showed off our clay pieces to each other and see what people had to say. A lot of peoples pieces turned out pretty great. Some had the problem of them breaking, but, it was mostly the handles, which are pretty difficult in the first place. Their pieces were still great. The critiques with the professor went good to. She just talked about our strengths and weaknesses and what we could do to improve.

Another thing was that our clay class had us require 2 pieces to do. One was fired in the kiln that we built here at the villa. We were able to talk to the people where we painted on the plates and bowls and they fired the other piece for us. It costed some money, but they turned out great and both pieces will be shipped and hopefully be to Rocky sometime before Christmas.

This week was a lot shorter and more laid back than the other weeks because it kind of marks a transition in classes. We finished up our clay classes and half of the Italian. It was on Friday of this week, that everyone gets a 10 day break to do what they want and we are to return on Sunday, November 4th to continue the other half of the classes which would consist of Italian and Painting. Everyone is kind of doing their own thing and going to other places. Me, Evan, and Nick will be traveling a lot over the next 10 days to try and see as much as we can. The plan is to fly from Perugia, Italy to Brussels, Belgium and stay there a night. Take a train to Amsterdam and stay there for 2 nights. Then take a train to Berlin, Germany another 2 nights; train to Prague, Czech for 2 nights; fly to Milan, Italy for another 2 nights; then finally return to the villa.

The following blog will be about the whole travel week.