February 5, 2009
visited the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata and the Spedale Degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) in my Architecture in Italy class. It was really neat to see the Foundling Hospital, and how, even now, everything function the building houses has to do with children. There's a school and a library (with children's books and books about children's rights), conference rooms and lecture rooms (that are only used for conferences and lectures whose topics relate to children and/or children's rights), UNICEF offices, and a bunch of other stuff all aimed at improving children's lives.
visited Piazza Ghiberti (the site of our studio project) in studio. We also got to walk around the architecture school that faces the piazza since part of our project is to design a new entrance for the school. We didn't really get to see any classrooms or studio, but from the multiple courtyards we walked through, their school looks really nice.
had family dinner in our room. Afterwards I went to a bar/cafe with Katie C (the only non-RWU archie), Christine, and Karen for cake tasting. We each got to try a couple pieces of cake for free, including me, even though I didn't order anything. Then we headed over to the Joshua Tree to meet up some of the others because Liz and Margaret were dj-ing.
Liz and Margaret were dj-ing? Who are they, and if they are American students, how do they get to dj in Italy?
ReplyDeleteLiz and Margaret are two of my roommates. They're both American students from RWU. A couple of the boys from downstairs had started going to the Joshua Tree pretty regularly and made friends with the owners, so Alex had been asked to dj there. He does it almost every week now, but he left for Switzerland on Thursday, so Liz and Margaret filled in for him. The owners seriously love all of us and keep trying to get more of us to dj (and by dj, i don't mean with turntables. they just use the music on their computers and use some machine so they songs transition smoothly).
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