Monday, December 5, 2011

We have started class at the Villa.  We have had Art History, Drawing, and Italian.  Mark and Jim have been lecturing and we started our drawing class in the studio.  The studio is wonderful; it is stone and wood, with tables all joined in the center of the room.  Julia Becker from the University of Great Falls is our drawing professor, and our three assignments are to create a landscape, a personal mythology, and a work of our choice.  We also have an Italian bowl at the end of this week, which is a culmination of our two weeks of travel and includes everything we saw while in Rome and Florence.

I am becoming very used to life at the Villa.  Rosa, Ivan, and Paola serve us our meals in the dining room, which is under a beautiful arch.  So far our meals have been excellent! We have had cheesy lasagna, beef and peas, noodles with beans, great bread and even better wine. Michele and Bebe are our gracious hosts, and they are always willing and eager to help with whatever we need.  Rossella, their daughter is an accomplished artist who is equally as nice.  Roberto and his intern Marina have also been very welcoming and accomodating of anything we need.  It is certainly a nice change from the hotels and risky meals we've had the last two weeks.



We were also able to attend a chocolate festival!! Perugia is home to Perugina chocolate-I was overwhelmed by the amount of chocolate, and indulged in several chocolate treats!

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