Oh life. You are a hoot. Yesterday was art day and is was pretty awesome. We drew landscapes. Some people chose to get their landscape from a photo but I chose to go outside and use the landscape in front of me. It was pretty great and everyone had a good picture by the end of the day. We also shared our ideas for our final projects. I am going to do a cave painting on a piece or limestone that I found in the field (no, I am not going to try to take it home. The rock is probably 100 pounds) but I am going to do it with spray paint, in a graffiti style to show art, then and now. It should turn out pretty cool, if I can get the graffiti part to look right.
Today we did an introduction to soils and we went to an archeology museum. The museum was cool except that Sandro had brought in one of his friends to show us around but the friend only spoke Italian so half the time we were bored out of our minds because we had no idea what was happening. It also didn't help that, even though the artifacts were interesting, most (if not all) of us have almost no deep interest in the things that we were seeing. An in depth history and explanation was not really what we needed. Eventually, Sandro kinda figured this out (after half of us had wandered ahead) and let us look at things and then we came back for a quick run through of things. For lunch we went up to Monte Conero where there is a map carved into a rock face and had a picnic. The map is probably 10x20 and was really interesting. It was there that we also had our introductory lecture on soils. We headed back early because it is St. Michael's day (patron saint of OGC) and the priest was coming and we had mass. The priest was from Nigeria and spoke some English as well as Italian so he tried to do a little bit of both so that we could follow along. Afterwards it was snack time! Some of the home owners who came in yesterday had brought velveta and salsa so they made queso. The had also brought candy (it was gone in a matter of minutes), peanut butter and half and half nutella (half white half chocolate. weird but good). The night ended with some bocce shenanigans and girl talk. Which, of course, are the ways every good day should end.
Today we did an introduction to soils and we went to an archeology museum. The museum was cool except that Sandro had brought in one of his friends to show us around but the friend only spoke Italian so half the time we were bored out of our minds because we had no idea what was happening. It also didn't help that, even though the artifacts were interesting, most (if not all) of us have almost no deep interest in the things that we were seeing. An in depth history and explanation was not really what we needed. Eventually, Sandro kinda figured this out (after half of us had wandered ahead) and let us look at things and then we came back for a quick run through of things. For lunch we went up to Monte Conero where there is a map carved into a rock face and had a picnic. The map is probably 10x20 and was really interesting. It was there that we also had our introductory lecture on soils. We headed back early because it is St. Michael's day (patron saint of OGC) and the priest was coming and we had mass. The priest was from Nigeria and spoke some English as well as Italian so he tried to do a little bit of both so that we could follow along. Afterwards it was snack time! Some of the home owners who came in yesterday had brought velveta and salsa so they made queso. The had also brought candy (it was gone in a matter of minutes), peanut butter and half and half nutella (half white half chocolate. weird but good). The night ended with some bocce shenanigans and girl talk. Which, of course, are the ways every good day should end.
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