Tuesday was another full day of classes for me. I had Roman Arch & Urban Design at 9:30, my Italian Film class at 12:15 and then Italian until 4. My first class was a field study at Castel San'Angelo which is across the river from IES. I am adding pictures up now to an album with a lot of information that we learned there in the captions so look out for that. I really learned a lot there and I love having field studies. Our teachers know so much about the places/art and I wouldn't really appreciate it as much if I went by myself.
It was Tuesday so my roommates and I had a Taco Night :) One of our roommates, Jessica knows how to make Sangria so that was her job for the night. My Wednesday classes start later at 12:15 when I had my Social Issues of Southern Italy class and then Italian at 3. (PS got my quiz back from Italian, I was happily surprised w/ my grade of a B - that was a hard first quiz!) Although it was Ash Wednesday I didn't see ANYONE in Rome with Ashes. I was really surprised since our school is so close to the Vatican.
Our apartment has been pretty faulty recently. Our sink / showers / washing machines get clogged up easily. When they added a door to our shower they did it the wrong way so now every time someone showers there is a huge flood in the kitchen. Hopefully they will be fixing that soon.
Thursday I had my first field study with my Medieval Art in Rome class. We went to Capitoline Hill for a trip to the museum. Our teacher was extremely fast running around the museum trying to show us as much as she could and I really learned a lot about art / sculptures / architecture from the Roman Antiquity era. I am also uploading pictures on the same Field Study album as Castel San'Angelo with details about each of the pieces of art. After class I ran back to IES for my Film class at 12:15. We learned about Neorealism (from Wiki: Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo) is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation.) and the three main directors in Italy that made these films around 1940's. (Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti). During the fascist times, many Italian films were comedies and were falsifications of reality with strong censorship and limits. Neorealism helped use natural lighting / locations / people / situations to expose the truth of what was going on in fascist Italy. Our homework this weekend is to watch Rosselini's "Rome Open City" before our class next Tuesday. We also watched a documentary on Martin Scorsese and how he was affected by the neorealistic films from Italy and what it mean to him. I then had Italian class until 4:30 and walked home (first time in a couple of days it hasn't rained and it was GORGEOUS).
Now I'm packing up for my weekend in Florence. We just got news that the buses / trams / metro / trenitalia are going on strike tomorrow from 8:30 till around 2 which does not work well with our plan. So now we are leaving for Florence at 6:45 am to avoid the strike. (Strikes happen here all the time and the Italians don't care so much but us Americans flip out because we always need to be on time and have no patience what-so-ever)
Check out my pictures from my Field Studies! They are really informative and gorgeous!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2034731&id=1376760021&l=2785f3a20c
Ciao!
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