Well, it's been awhile, and there are many stories for which I want to talk about, but it would make this blog post extremely long, so I'll give you the titles, and you can ask about them later.
Mission: Find a dryer
Operation Charlie
Fall Rome Fashion Show
Painting Disaster with Brian
Party Hardy with Morgan
Last night of baking
Connection Group Connections
Shopping time with my roomie
I think that is all...I'll probably end up adding more but that's the gist. Now let's move on to the Venice/Milan trip I just got back from. It was a 5 day trip, 2 nights in Milan, 2 nights in Venice. We started in Milan, and it was a nice city. Full of bustling people everywhere who were dressed quite well. We went on some tours and visited many lighting showrooms (our project this semester is a lighting showroom...). It was a long 2 days and as much as I liked the city, probably won't go back. Just a lot of very expensive shopping there. We did get to go to an Opera though called Carmen. Overall, it was a good show, and thankfully where I was sitting, there were translators, but the bad thing? Our seats were all the way on top, in the back, on the very side of the stage. Translation: we had to stand and completely lean over the people in front of us in order to see anything. There was even a bar above us to hold on to. Needless to say, in the end, after 4 acts, I just sat and read the subtitles, imagining my own opera in my head. Very poor design. I would love to go see another opera some day, I just hope I don't have to stand for the whole thing.
When we traveled to Venice, that was a lot of fun. It's a city completely on and surrounded by water. They have no cars, everything is boat transportation. Made it much less loud and obnoxious. It was just a very pretty city overall. But, the first museum we went to almost literally made me sick. Full of basically pornographic "Art". I won't go into further detail, the images are seared into my mind. The rest of the the places we went to were pretty sweet. Got to go to an exhibition where there was this dark room with strobe lights, and in the center were hoses hanging from the ceiling, whipping water around. You were able to run through the center so, of course, I did. Best thing ever! I ran through with my roommate Katelyn right after our professor went through. One of the coolest rooms there. The next day, we went to an exhibition where different countries were representing their interpretations of design. The coolest places were Canada, that had these hanging creature things that would move and make noise, Hungry with this forest of hanging pencils (we got yelled at for touching them...), Czechoslovakia with this place full of wood...stuff. It was just awesome. The last place was Australia. It was like walking through a lazer tag arena. Pretty awesome. Want to know about the United States? It sucked. Totally disappointed.
The last night in Venice, we had a big group dinner, and it was quite interesting... Appetizer: A kind of corn puree thing with little shrimps on top. That was amazing. Second Appetizer......Shrimp (with the whole body with it), Octopus (the whole body...including brains), Crawfish, calamari, scallops, and...snails, still in the shell. Well, I decided to try everything, and it really wasn't all that bad. The octopus was rather fun, just had a weird aftertaste. Chewy tentacles but still fun to eat. I liked the scallops and everything else, but the snails were so weird. You had to use a stick in order to pull them out. I was very aware that I was eating snails. Tasted fine.......just weird. Probably won't eat it again.
But want to know something? That wasn't the weirdest thing I ate....The weirdest thing was during this venetian glass tour we went on. They showed us how they make blown glass which was awesome...then the guy blew up some glass like a bubble until it popped! The glass was so thin. The woman working there passed some around...so my roomies and i decided to possibly eat some of it...just to say we've eaten glass! HAHA! Yes, we did eat a little bit. Be jealous!
Well, for some more stories, here are some more titles:
Finding a Grocery store that is open
Taco Night!
Love Drama
That's it for now haha. I hope you are all doing amazingly!! I miss you all but will be seeing you shortlyish...haha
Mission: Find a dryer
Operation Charlie
Fall Rome Fashion Show
Painting Disaster with Brian
Party Hardy with Morgan
Last night of baking
Connection Group Connections
Shopping time with my roomie
I think that is all...I'll probably end up adding more but that's the gist. Now let's move on to the Venice/Milan trip I just got back from. It was a 5 day trip, 2 nights in Milan, 2 nights in Venice. We started in Milan, and it was a nice city. Full of bustling people everywhere who were dressed quite well. We went on some tours and visited many lighting showrooms (our project this semester is a lighting showroom...). It was a long 2 days and as much as I liked the city, probably won't go back. Just a lot of very expensive shopping there. We did get to go to an Opera though called Carmen. Overall, it was a good show, and thankfully where I was sitting, there were translators, but the bad thing? Our seats were all the way on top, in the back, on the very side of the stage. Translation: we had to stand and completely lean over the people in front of us in order to see anything. There was even a bar above us to hold on to. Needless to say, in the end, after 4 acts, I just sat and read the subtitles, imagining my own opera in my head. Very poor design. I would love to go see another opera some day, I just hope I don't have to stand for the whole thing.
When we traveled to Venice, that was a lot of fun. It's a city completely on and surrounded by water. They have no cars, everything is boat transportation. Made it much less loud and obnoxious. It was just a very pretty city overall. But, the first museum we went to almost literally made me sick. Full of basically pornographic "Art". I won't go into further detail, the images are seared into my mind. The rest of the the places we went to were pretty sweet. Got to go to an exhibition where there was this dark room with strobe lights, and in the center were hoses hanging from the ceiling, whipping water around. You were able to run through the center so, of course, I did. Best thing ever! I ran through with my roommate Katelyn right after our professor went through. One of the coolest rooms there. The next day, we went to an exhibition where different countries were representing their interpretations of design. The coolest places were Canada, that had these hanging creature things that would move and make noise, Hungry with this forest of hanging pencils (we got yelled at for touching them...), Czechoslovakia with this place full of wood...stuff. It was just awesome. The last place was Australia. It was like walking through a lazer tag arena. Pretty awesome. Want to know about the United States? It sucked. Totally disappointed.
The last night in Venice, we had a big group dinner, and it was quite interesting... Appetizer: A kind of corn puree thing with little shrimps on top. That was amazing. Second Appetizer......Shrimp (with the whole body with it), Octopus (the whole body...including brains), Crawfish, calamari, scallops, and...snails, still in the shell. Well, I decided to try everything, and it really wasn't all that bad. The octopus was rather fun, just had a weird aftertaste. Chewy tentacles but still fun to eat. I liked the scallops and everything else, but the snails were so weird. You had to use a stick in order to pull them out. I was very aware that I was eating snails. Tasted fine.......just weird. Probably won't eat it again.
But want to know something? That wasn't the weirdest thing I ate....The weirdest thing was during this venetian glass tour we went on. They showed us how they make blown glass which was awesome...then the guy blew up some glass like a bubble until it popped! The glass was so thin. The woman working there passed some around...so my roomies and i decided to possibly eat some of it...just to say we've eaten glass! HAHA! Yes, we did eat a little bit. Be jealous!
Well, for some more stories, here are some more titles:
Finding a Grocery store that is open
Taco Night!
Love Drama
That's it for now haha. I hope you are all doing amazingly!! I miss you all but will be seeing you shortlyish...haha
Ciao
Anna
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