Vita di Firenze: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Luci! Lights!

the lights in the city are spectacular and i just had to share them with you! these are just a couple streets i walk on the way back from class so you can imagine how beautiful the rest of the city is.

across from piazza strozzi

this is right under my window! mine is cut off but im on the top floor

via leading into piazza del republica

Monday, November 29, 2010

Christmastime in Florence

LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING UP NEXT TO THE DUOMO!! its dripping with lights tooo. i cant wait for christmas!!

Winter Wonderland

I went to amsterdam with my roommate Rachael this weekend and we walked into what i can best describe as an absolute winter wonderland! This trip had been planned for a long time, and i was originally planning to go to austria instead of amsterdam for fall break, but it worked out that i went twice and it was really nice to see the beautiful city again! We did so many things including going to the van gogh musuem, taking a walk through vondel park, admiring all the christmas lights and seeing the first snow fall! It was extremelyyyyyyyyyy frigid cold but we definitly enjoyed it and kept bundled up the whole time!

dam square

ledsplein square all light up!

one of their many gorgeous canals (i like how the light hit the bike tires!)

so many lights :)

poinsettia dress

bagels and beans for the most delicious breakfast

the first mall we've been in for months! loook at that huge tree!

the park near the museums

the view from the top floor of the van gogh museum

winter wonderland!

the van gogh museum

hahaha in the vending machine at the hostel, cool american because they have no idea what ranch dressing is in europe!

Monday, November 22, 2010

thanksgiving :)

I'm missing everyone from back home pretty bad with thanksgiving right around the corner. All my american roommates were pretty homesick too, so we cooked a traditional thanksgiving dinner (extremely well for being first timers) and shared an american holiday with our Dutch roommates. They lovedddd it. And of course we all stuffed ourselves like crazy. Unfortunately we couldn't find a turkey so we had chicken, but we did have mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing (i made it, soooo good), biscuits, corn pudding, green beans, brussels sprouts, salad, parmesan bread, apple pie, banana bread and gelato. can you say delicious??

Saturday, November 20, 2010

drawing class

so i got stopped a couple days ago on my way home and asked by an artist to be his live model for a drawing class at his art studio. now before anyone freaks out, i know that sounds like the beginning of a bad horror movie but i made sure to clear up a few things. the first words out of my mouth were with clothes on? Once i got a yes to that question he gave me the address to his website and i went home and checked it out and it looked legitimate. I thought to myself when am i ever gonna have this chance again? So i sat for the class for an hour and a half, got paid 10 euro and now have a cool story to tell. The sketches are pretty good, but of course i dont think they look a hundred precent like me haha

if you cover up the huge nose with your finger the eyes look dead on like mine

Thursday, November 18, 2010

S P A I N

Sooooo madrid was completely hands down my favorite trip so far! We saw everything from the huge park (jardines de buen retiro), plaza mayor, plaza sol, the prado museum, goyas paintings, LIVE FLAMENCO DANCING, a futbol game, some really cool spanish bars, method man and red man live in concert, an underground art exhibit, and el rastro (a huge flea market on sunday mornings). My friend sam who's studying in madrid all year and his friends definitely showed us a good time and took us to so many places we never would have gone on our own.