Another Adventure!

Has this week felt long to anyone else? I feel like I wrote the last cooking blog forever ago! Hmm.. maybe it was because we spent most of this week in class rather than field trips! Too many lectures :)

We spent Monday morning at the Bernini Elementary School just up the street from the palace. Italy is currently celebrating their 150th Anniversary and the students performed a song, dance, and speech for us about their country. They were so proud and excited we were there. After their performance we were able to go into a 4th grade classroom and ask each other questions. Cinzia translated for us, as usual, and it was so fun to get an idea of what 9 year olds think of Americans. They asked questions like... what we like to eat for breakfast, if we played volleyball, who our favorite singers were, and of course if we had boyfriends! The funniest part was that they also admitted to thinking we were all 30 years old! I hope we don't look that old! :) ...Actually I change my mind.. the funniest part was when they asked, "Which one of you is the best?", we all looked at Cinzia very confused [thinking- best at what??] until she explained they wanted to know who was the smartest aka best in school... still thinking this was a very strange question we all point to Katie and yell her name. ((Now if you haven't met Katie, you need to know that she is unlike anyone I have ever met. She is so outgoing, loved by everyone, and hysterical... always making everyone laugh and ironically constantly says she "struggles with school". )) Immediately, the students start clapping and cheering for her!!! and we all busted out laughing as she bowed and said thanks!!! We called her the best the rest of the day! It was great. Gotta love Italians!

Performing their dance/song! The students in Italy usually wear white or blue aprons and can put patches or designs of their choice on them. They are worn over their clothes like uniforms.

Beautiful girls :)

Explaining their precious poster... [what each part of the Italian symbol means].

More songs! I was loving this! 

During question time! I think this was when we asked who like the Roma "futbol" team! haha

Tuesday, was a very fun day! We spent the morning at the World Food Program [WFP]. If you haven't heard about The World Food Program, it is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting world hunger. "It is part of the United Nations and if funded solely through volunteers. In emergencies, they get food to where it is needed, saving lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After the cause of an emergency has passed, they use food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives." Oddly enough, their headquarters are in Rome, and even more odd, the girl who gave us our tour was an Auburn Alum! She graduated 2 years ago and actually knew some of the girls on the trip. While at Auburn, she interned in Rome at WFP and ended up getting a job with it when she graduated, so there she was! Also, the current intern that we met was also from Auburn! It was very nice to see Auburn family-- it has been SO long! Auburn, was actually the very first University to get connected with WFP and continues to raise money for them with campus organizations like "Fill the Cup" and Hunger Marches! [Auburn] War Eagle to that!

From there... we went to Tirelli's Tailor Workshop, one of the largest Theatre and Cinema costume workshops. Their collection has over 100,000 pieces from the middle age/renaissance to the 1990s! The workshop and its key costume designs have received Academy Awards in the US for their outstanding work. Our tour guide was, Andrea Sorrentino, a costume designer himself! I could not believe how many costumes there were! You could literally hide in there for days and no one would ever know.

The dress Rose wore in Titanic!

Beautiful white/cream costumes from the 1800s!

Costumes galore! 

Costume from Alice in Wonderland

Leather Chaps!

The robes from Passion of the Christ... very cool!

Cinderella's dress! My fav!

The costume Heath Ledger wore in A Knight's Tale

The other exciting/scary part of the week was that I registered for class for the last time! Yes, you read that correct... and for the first time since I started college I got all the classes I needed in the first 10 minutes I could sign up! Gosh, I feel so old. I have 12 hours in the summer, my last 12 in the fall, then I will do an internship in the spring! Crazy!

Now for the adventures ahead--- Tomorrow morning @ 6 AM I leave for Switzerland! How cool is that! There are 8 of us flying to Geneva and staying at Mary Cate's parents friends house fo freee! They are so excited.. and have planned great things for us like fondue anddd skiing in the Alps on Saturday!! Can someone please wake me up? I'm pumped. 

The unfortunate part is that we get back Sunday night around 10 PM and then have to unpack and repack to head out at 6 AM the next morning for Milan. I'm not sure I will be able to sleep with all I will have to get done in between those trips-- but it will be worth it! We will be in Milan until Thursday and then from there all 19 of us are flying straight to Barcelona for the rest of the weekend! Do you think we are crazy yet? haha Cause I do!

Basically, the next 10 days are going to be crazy [and filled with lots of febreeze] but a blast and I am the happiest girl in the world! I will be sure to post pics from all 3 places when I get back!!!! 

Since I will be out of touch until the 10th.. I hope you all have a great weekend, week, and weekend again! ha! ...and for all my AXO sisters-- have a FABULOUS time at formal tomorrow night!!!!! I wish I could be there with you. Please post pics ASAP! Love you all.

Love the rest of you too! Well, I better finish packing and get some sleep :) 

xoxo

Britt