December 5, 2011

December 5, 2011

This morning I slept in until about 9:45, which I was so happy to be able to do. Last night I decided to listen to the live streaming of Christmas Fest at St. Olaf on MPR, which was absolutely beautiful but it was from 10:00-12:00 at night my time. I decided that I might as well because I knew I could sleep in this morning and I didn’t have anything going on until 3:00. It was absolutely beautiful :) Anyway, that’s why I slept in so late this morning. Once I was up I had breakfast and got ready before heading to school. Unfortunately there was a bus strike today and it was pouring rain so I had to walk to school in the rain—thank goodness for a good rain jacket, good boots, and an umbrella. Once I got to school I printed out my final Medici paper, finished preparing my presentation for today, studied for the Medici final on Friday, and had some lunch.

At 2:30 we had a belated birthday celebration for Jessica whose birthday was last Friday and we had delicious Italian cake. At 3:00 we began our Medici final presentations on our paper topics. We did not choose the order to go in but I definitely got lucky and got to go second and get it over with. We continued with presentations until 4:30 and then were let out until finishing them tomorrow afternoon. At that point, I decided to start the walk home, hoping it wouldn’t pour rain on me. Thankfully it only sprinkled on me and it didn’t take me too long to get home. When I got home I studied for a while, stretched, did some laundry, and then read some of my book for fun.

For dinner this evening we started with some sort of pasta dish that was very yummy, followed by beans, homemade French fries (so good), and some sort of potatoes things with cheese that was very good as well. We finished off with Panettone, a traditional Italian Christmas cake, and apples. This evening Andrea decided to pull out his I Love Country CD that was absolutely awful but we definitely had fun listening to it :)

Tomorrow I have my Dante “final” in the morning, which is actually just presentations on what we wrote our papers on (just like for my Medici class) followed by finishing up our presentations for Medici. Then tomorrow evening we are going to the opera again—to Barber of Seville­—so I am very excited for that! So tonight I will probably go to bed fairly early so I am plenty rested to enjoy the opera. I am done studying for the evening as I studied a lot already today so will probably just watch an episode of a TV show, stretch a little more, and then head to bed. I hope all of your weeks are off to a good start!

All my love,

Kari