April 28, 2009

had my Architecture in Italy exam in the morning. The exam was super hard, largely because I had missed so much information while I was sick.

After the exam I had to rush over to Casa della Creativita to meet up with Hardy, Em, Nadia, Kelly, and Bari to prepare for the auction. Then we had to go back to studio to meet with our teachers one last time before rushing back to Casa della Creativita to continue setting up. The place really looked nice once we had all the artwork displayed. I was impressed by how much artwork we actually had since we had almost nothing as of Sunday.

The auction went pretty well. The live music was really good. A decent number of people came, but they were mostly our friends or friends of Bari's, so not too many people who would actually be bidding on artwork. Bari also put way too much emphasis on the music, so people weren't looking at the artwork and bidding while the music was being played. So the actual auction part of the night wasn't a huge success, but it definitely has the potential to be a bigger success in future years. We figured out all the logistics of how the evening needs to work, so the students who organize it in future years just have to worry about obtaining artwork and attracting bidders. We had the disadvantage of having only about three weeks to organize the whole thing in the midst of preparing for all of our finals and pretty yucky weather the night of the event.

As soon as everything was cleaned up, Nadia and I sprinted back to our apartment to grab our things and meet up with Nikul and Pat to go to Cinqueterre. We had to catch a train that left Florence at 12:37.