Hi everyone!
I have spent a large amount of my young adult life being a tourist. I always felt it was unfair that the locals did not appreciate us tourist more, since we brought money into their economy. Well...I hadn't lived in one of the most tourist infested places yet. Now I live in a beautiful city that attracts hoards of tourist each day. I also live in the center of all tourist destinations in Florence. Let me tell you, my life would be so much easier if there were no tourist. It is very inconsiderate to just stop in the middle of someones way to take a picture. They don't realize that just because they are in vacation everyone else isn't! We have to live our normal lives with the added stress of having to live with tourist everyday. The streets are always crowded with them, which makes us almost not want to go outside. They are inconsiderate to those of us who need to get somewhere in five minutes and don't have the luxury to take a stroll down the street. I am not just talking about the "American" tourist but all tourist in general. Yesterday was a great day because it rained, and due to that the tourist stayed in. End rant.
On a happier note, I will start my internship at the Palazzo Vecchio soon. After months of waiting to see if i actually got the class/internship I was finally selected. There will be another girl also working with me from the same school. It will be an intense experience but a valuable one non the less. We will be regular tour guides in the museum. One of us will be doing the general tour and the other will be doing the secret passages tour. I don't know yet which one i will be doing.
Well on other news one of my roommates and i are planning on going to Pisa this weekend. It has been a long day so I am going to rest.
Until more exciting times!
-Jen
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Patti Smith in Florence
HI everyone!
So I have been in Italy for a bit more than a week. Everything is still very overwhelming and it is definitely going to take a lot on my part to get used to this new culture.
We started out in Rome for our orientation. We saw all of the sites and I have to say that Rome was just like how I had imagined it. It was smaller than what I thought it would be, but it made things much easier to get to.
We also took some side trips to Pompeii, the Almafi coast, and Siena. Pompeii I am sad to say was not that impressive it could have been that it was really hot and there was no shade. The almafi coast was wonderful, we just took a drive around it and stopped to eat some fruit. The yellow peaches were amazing! Siena is a charming medieval city nothing really special but just a nice place to relax and spend some time walking around.
So we arrived in Florence on Thursday. It was all very overwhelming, because the moving in was not that smooth. There was luggage everywhere and no elevators to carry them up to the fifth floor. My apartment, which I share with four other girls two of which I previously knew from Wells, is located in the heart of the city but compared to the rest of the apartments it is kinda shabby.
Most of my classes are going well so far. There have been some rough times or un-forseen things happen but nothing to challenging.
Okay so to Patti Smith the singer, poet, writer, and painter from the 70's. For my contemporary and modern art class the teacher made us hop on a bus and go to a little tuscan villa outside of florence. To the NYU campus here where Patti Smith was giving a lecture. I am going to sound very ignorant but I did not know who she was until I wikipediad her just now. It was a very informal Q&A.
I finally found out that I did get the internship at a museum, which happens to be right behind my apartment. There is a lot of paper work that has to be done. I will basically be giving tours to English speaking tourists.
Well I will try to keep this up as much as possible but it might be a bit hard since we don't have internet at our apartment.
Until more exciting times!
-Jen
So I have been in Italy for a bit more than a week. Everything is still very overwhelming and it is definitely going to take a lot on my part to get used to this new culture.
We started out in Rome for our orientation. We saw all of the sites and I have to say that Rome was just like how I had imagined it. It was smaller than what I thought it would be, but it made things much easier to get to.
We also took some side trips to Pompeii, the Almafi coast, and Siena. Pompeii I am sad to say was not that impressive it could have been that it was really hot and there was no shade. The almafi coast was wonderful, we just took a drive around it and stopped to eat some fruit. The yellow peaches were amazing! Siena is a charming medieval city nothing really special but just a nice place to relax and spend some time walking around.
So we arrived in Florence on Thursday. It was all very overwhelming, because the moving in was not that smooth. There was luggage everywhere and no elevators to carry them up to the fifth floor. My apartment, which I share with four other girls two of which I previously knew from Wells, is located in the heart of the city but compared to the rest of the apartments it is kinda shabby.
Most of my classes are going well so far. There have been some rough times or un-forseen things happen but nothing to challenging.
Okay so to Patti Smith the singer, poet, writer, and painter from the 70's. For my contemporary and modern art class the teacher made us hop on a bus and go to a little tuscan villa outside of florence. To the NYU campus here where Patti Smith was giving a lecture. I am going to sound very ignorant but I did not know who she was until I wikipediad her just now. It was a very informal Q&A.
I finally found out that I did get the internship at a museum, which happens to be right behind my apartment. There is a lot of paper work that has to be done. I will basically be giving tours to English speaking tourists.
Well I will try to keep this up as much as possible but it might be a bit hard since we don't have internet at our apartment.
Until more exciting times!
-Jen
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