Yesterday was the flood. It was a pretty typical Wednesday. We played around with pulp dying in book arts, had a Mostra poster crit in Graphics, and I made my way up the hill to Art History when an enormous storm hit and hail the size of small pebbles started inflicting some serious damage to our 600 year-old humble abroad (and a few people at that). Doors were slamming, people began running in and out to close windows and check their rooms, and yet art history droned on for about 5 minutes as we could barely hear over the rumble of the storm (things are quiet up on a mountain with no heating or air conditioners to drown out the noise and thing walls with lots of windows. FINALLY, after making faces to me through the door window, Taylor comes running into our classroom announcing that the whole kitchen has flooded. It had been raining for maybe 10-15 minutes and there were a good 2 inces of water covering the floor and seaping near to other parts of the building. Rain was water-falling in through a slit in a side door. We al set to work grabbing towels, brooms, mops, moving furniture and a collective 50 person group effort was in sue. Needless to say, art history and our trip to the Etruscan museum down in town was canceled. It was practically snowing ice cubes in the middle of summer! We had a cleaning party where we skated around on towels, got boards of wood from farious art studios to push the water out, and then took pine dust from a wood studio to soak the rest up and let it dry to sweep it out.
As we walked down to dinner a few hours, lots of lightening and scary winds later, we realized how amuck the entire town had gone. Thousands of birds were seeking shelter in the roofs of houses, there was leaves and tree debris everywhere. Several restaurants had flooded (apparently storms like this are very uncommon up here) and no one was out.
Casey made the joke, that with an exploded bathroom on Monday and the flood on Wednesday, she didn’t want to know what Friday held in store.
We were bored of being stuck up on the hill so we went to Bar Sport for some hot chocolate (literal translation: pure melted chocolate. No milk. No water. Just hot – chocolate.) The family hung on the steps for a while and called it a night.
Today wasn’t too eventful, other than my fabulous photoshoot this morning with the advanced photography class. Peter chose me to model as a modern day Italiano-Vogue Aphrodite and we got really conceptual about it and how we’ve created her and kept her around in our cultures for centuries and how we hate her yet she affects us so much in so many different forms. I was wrapped in white sheets in the movie-theater of the park and it was pretty fun. Hopefully peter will give me some of the shots to upload and show y’all at some point!
Today in school I learned how to add leaves and other add-ins to my papers, how to let paper dry on a textured surfaces to give it a cool form, and how to pulp-paint with hand-made stencils. Arts and crafts time. In graphics we all uploaded and sent our post-cards through a UPS link. It’s cool sending some of your work to people in the form of a real post-card.
Because I spend all my free time with my nose stuck in Harry Potter my life isn’t more exciting today, so my stories end here.
Arrediverci!
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