So today I completely forgot that I had a class at 8, because we only have that on Tuesdays, but I can't just show up two hours late, because thats kindof rude, so I thought I would actually write in my blog, because I haven't done that in quite a while.
My French Communist roommate is gone (I found out her real name is Audrey), and today I get a new one. Hopefully she's... nice. Yesterday my landlady came and cleaned the apartment!! Its really nice and clean. And she put a ridiculously bright pink blanket over the couch, haha. I bought new Birkenstocks yesterday. They're the thong kind, very european. I was going to buy black ones, not shiny, but they were too bold for me, so I got light green. They were needed because my other ones were worn down to the cork on the outside of my heels (and totally fine everywhere else, so I think I must walk weird).
Harinder leaves this week (the program director) and our second program director, Claudia is already here. We're having a transition dinner tonight and this really good ristorante called La Lanterna. I guess we're having pasta with Wild Boar sauce. According to Harinder, the cook said its really good.
Yesterday I turned in my final version of my term project! I'm really glad that that and my two tests are all over. Some friends of mine made a ten minute video of things in Perugia, so I'm going to post that sometime this week, along with my video from Gubbio. I think I've got some time tomorrow, so maybe then.
Oh, I'll write about Gubbio while I've got some time. About 12 of us went and Luke (assistant program director) was our tour guide, or something to that effect. It was nice because its not a very touristy town, which was a good change. Gubbio is a midevil city, and has a Roman ampitheatre and old churches. We took this crazy 'death cage' up the mountain, which is basically like an old chairlift, but you stand in these crazy cages. It doesn't slow down for you, so you have to run along side of it and jump in. Its in the video, so you'll be able to see it soon. At the top is the church of San Ubaldus. He died in the 12th century, and his body preserved itself naturally, without any sort of mumification or embalment or anything. Supposedly its a miracle, so his really old corpse is up on this altar in a class case/coffin that is addorned with gold. Personally, I think its creepy, and I don't think I will ever understand Catholosism's worship, or something to that effect, of dead men. After that, we summited Gubbio! We took a short walk up the rest of the hill, and at the top there was a cool tower that we could all go on top of. The view was amazing, and you could see in every direction. My digital camera had run out of batteries, and I was out of real film, but I'm actually kindof glad, because there is no way I would have been able to capture that moment photographically. After a few minutes, everyone stopped takling for about ten minutes, and it was really comfortable and awesome. The silence didn't even need to be broken awkwardly, it was so cool.
OK I need to go to class now. Ciao!
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