So last night there was a large concert in a stadium near our apartments, and it was mostly classical music. It was fun to hear, we were all using the wireless on the steps of our classroom.
Later, we found a little club-type thing (remember, this is San Gemini) and they were playing fun music, so we danced for a little while there.
Yesterday we had a quiz-there was a trick question, and not counting that one, I got them all right! Yay! I studied a little bit, but it wasn't too hard.
Yesterday we finished our sgraffito, and began putting together our canvas frames, and put on our canvas. After we stretched the canvas and everything, we put one layer of 'rabbit glue' on it, which is made from the skin of rabbits. It was gross, but still interesting. After that, we made another version of the rabbit glue but with flour and a little honey to give it plasticity. This we put on and scraped through to fill the holes (the fabric we put on was more like burlap, than canvas...) We also began our fresco, which the first layer is just a cement, a combination of Calcium Hydroxide putty and sand, which we apply to the styrofoam board that we have punched holes in, to make the surface irregular, so everything sticks. That was most likely the longest run on sentence, but I don't really care.
This Saturday we are leaving for our week of traveling, first to Florence with a few stops along the way, then to Siena, and Rome. I'm pretty excited. No one is really happy with the week of hopping from place to place, and traveling is always a sticky business, but at least this time WE'RE not the ones handling it, our amazing fixer-of-all-situations Polly is. (She's our administrator, of sorts.)
Love to all-
Seer
PS. Tomorrow night we've arranged a huge dinner for all of us, like, making hamburgers and some people are bringing potato salad, and someone's making dessert, etc...
YAY
Sounds fun, we are going up to Elkhart and then Grampa's this weekend so I will take all your blogs up to him to read.
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