Also thought I should mention our course schedule. One we finally started class a week and a half after Chicago did, we still only had two classes the following week and a virtual chat with our research seminar back in Chicago. Now finally, our schedule looks to be Studio T/Th 10-2, our fabrication class Tuesday 4-8, and a virtual chat Wed at 5 or 6 until 7 or 8. The fabrication class ends at the end of October, and our research seminar's main goal is to enter a competition, due November 2nd- so basically I'll have class twice a week for 4 hours each time, for all of November. Should be able to find some time to travel in there :)
Speaking of traveling plans (I like segues)- here's my tentative plans for the semester, in case you're curious. Cause I'm excited to talk about them :)
I already went to Valencia two weekends ago, which I'll talk about. This weekend we're (currently) planning on going nowhere but that could change- but we gotta be back for the Red Bull Air Race at least on Sunday, though its Saturday also. NEXT weekend we're going to Bilbao and San Sebastian for about 4 days. That's my birthday weekend. The following weekend is Granada and Seville. The weekend after, WITH MY ESTEEMED VISITOR JENNY STAHL!! is Madrid. That brings us to an as-yet-unplanned Halloween weekend, which I currently hope to be a 140 euro flight to Casablanca. The following weekend- MORE VISITORS! My brother comes, we go to Switzerland. We see Barcelona during the week, then we go to Paris the following weekend.
Then I have a weekend before finals (which I also hope to fill with a trip, perhaps to Southern France, somewhere in Spain, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, I dunno) and then we're off to Genoa, Florence (both of which I hope I will have roommate Josh and girlfriend Andrea with me for) and then to Rome, where TIFFANY COMES. (!!!!!!!!!- exclamation points to let her know how excited I am for her to come :). Then her and I head off to Slovenia, where she lived for five years in high school, and celebrate her birthday there. I better figure out something nice to do for it :) Then we go to Prague, Dublin, and home in time for Christmas.
So other stories- our classmates who live downtown had a party shortly after we got here, and afterwards my friend John's friend Sharon, who's doing a 1-yr Master's here, took us to this late-night bar. We walked in and at John's suggestion (and our agreement) ordered 10 pitchers of beer for 20 people. Only one had already ordered one and another group of four had ordered one. That left 10 pitchers for 15 people. All the people in the bar were staring, pointing, laughing, when 15 people walked over to a table with 10 pitchers of beer. Thankfully shortly thereafter we found a foosball table, I fondly relived some high school, and when we were done, magically all the beer was gone without me having to drink my share- cause that woulda been bad news.
Interestingly, my friend Marcella who's parents are Mexican, and roommate Todd who just speaks Spanish, met some Italians (I assumed by speaking Spanish but I could be wrong) and I ended up talking to them to. This guy Francesco Macri was from the same region of Italy (Calabria) as my family, and I told him that in my hometown in Indiana the Macris were good bakers. Anyway they told us to Facebook em and look em up when we got to Rome- so we may!
The last story is that we found a glorious way to watch football games, as I showed before. Thankfully my roommate Dave is a big college football fan (OSU grad) and so after I watched the ND-Michigan game (which I don't wanna talk about) we got his computer on the projector and sound system at school and watched the OSU-USC game huge on the wall...until 5:30am. That was rough. But fun. There'll be more of that I hope, but I'll be on the go quite a bit during weekends as well. We'll see.
Its time to transition to a new post. Where to begin?
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