Back to the Books

Along with Italian I'm taking 2 art history courses: Imagery and Art in Public Space (IPS) and Etruscan and Roman Art and Architecture (ERAA), and then one Italian Cultural History Class (ICH). So far I've only had my IPS class. There are 5 of us and our class is held in the CET center in downtown Siena (about a 10 min walk from my apartment). There is no heat in this building, so class was quite chilly this morning since it was 25 degrees outside. All of us sitting in our heavy coats, gloves and scarves met our professor Peter, a very well dressed 1/3 Italian, 1/3 German, 1/3 English man. If that sounds like a confusing mix, just try listening to him speak. Every "w" is a "v", he speaks in third person and when explaining each figure in a slide he says, "now 'ere ve hav zis baztard. vo iz zis baztard? ve do not know." Very comical and engaging and will literally snap at you if he "vants you to zook at hem".

The next time we have class with him is on Friday where we will meet him in Florence! That is the great thing about this program, a lot of our classes our held outside the classroom, and we get to travel to places like Rome, Florence and Sicily to see the works of art in person!