the countdown is into single digits- 9 days until i come home! this past weekend i stayed in genoa to relax and catch up on work. we watched movies all weekend, and a lot of people went hiking in portofino and cinque terre. saturday night, the few of us who were still in the villa, went to the genoa hofbrauhaus for some german food. this is zac’s favorite restaurant, so he was really excited to find one in genoa. it was decorated so well inside we thought we were in germany. i had wienerschnitzel and potato salad and beer. it was delicious!
jamie’s parents were supposed to visit her in genoa this weekend. her dad was already in the uk for business and her mom was flying into genoa to meet both of them. but because of the volcano, jamie’s dad was stuck in london all weekend, and her mom got rerouted to rome. her iphone got no service there, so she had no way of contacting jamie or jamie’s dad, so jamie had quite a stressful day. her mom had to wait in line for two hours at the airport, then go to rome’s train station and wait another two hours for a train, and then take the four-five hour train here. thank goodness she had a card for jamie that she had forgotten to send so that she had our address! she took a cab to the villa and stayed with us all weekend.
my roommates, judith, catherine, and kelsey were all in Ibiza this weekend. i was supposed to go with them and even already booked my flight, but decided to stay in genoa this weekend instead. good thing, because airports in the north of italy are closed, and the girls are stuck in Ibiza until tomorrow (if everything works out!) another grad student, sylvia, went to berlin over the weekend, and was stuck as well. she had to take a train all day today and will hopefully be back tonight. our coordinator, sylvia, was supposed to fly to clemson for a few days for meetings, but had to cancel the trip because of the planes not flying for so long. what a mess!
on sunday, there was a half marathon in genoa that our teacher, bernhard, was running in. grad student tyler and i got up early to go down to the port to cheer him on. but tyler looked at the route wrong on the map, and we actually got it backwards. we got to see everyone take off from down the street, but didn’t get to see bernhard. we waited around for a while to try to catch them, but no luck. so we went to get gelato instead. by the time we made it back to the villa, bernhard was returning not far behind us. he laughed that we got the route wrong and showed us where they really went on the map. he then asked us if we wanted to do a nice dinner that night, which we agreed to, but first, the soccer game.
at three o’clock, most of us had tickets to see uc sampdoria (one of the genoa teams) play soccer against ac milan. a 2002 clemson graduate AND david beckham plays on the ac milan team, but seeing as our tickets sat us in the home section, we of course still had to cheer for our ‘home town’, genoa. uc sampdoria ended up winning 2-1 in the ninetieth minute of the game. it was really intense! and the italian chants and cheers were so cool to hear and try to sing and clap along with. we had taken a bus there, but somehow i ended up in the small group that decided to walk up the giant mountain to get back down to our villa. logan, allender, and i were not happy as we followed jeff and tyler on a hike! we made it back before everyone else though, so i guess it was worth it. i had time for a fifteen minute power nap!
bernhard had made reservations at a small restaurant in a little town right outside the center of genoa called boccadasse. we only got to see it at night, but it was beautiful. when we got off the bus, we told bernhard how great it was, and he said it’s going to get a whole lot cooler in a second. we turned the corner and there was a little beach right in front of a street with a bar and restaurant on it. it was gorgeous! dinner was delicious (complete with wonderful white wine and tiramisu!)
we had our final in our sketch class today. we each had to make a book with fifty of our sketches and present it. it took all day to go through all of us, but we did it, and now we only have studio to worry about! we have our final review next wednesday. i can’t believe i’m almost done the semester!
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