So far, my favorite thing about Florence (not) is that it rains EVERY TUESDAY. How do I know this, you ask? Well, Tuesday is the weekday afternoon I don't have class, and so it's been my intention to go out and explore Florence, but so far every Tuesday I've had free has poured. However, the one Tuesday I had to study, two weeks ago, it was sunny. Go figure.
In any case, I'll quit my complaining, because it's a gorgeous day now, and I have exciting news! I've received an email back from Luke, the executive director at the Alpine Theater Project, and he's asked for references who can speak to my costume construction abilities and my work ethic. Conveniently, I have two such people who I'm 99% certain will give raving reviews (Patty, my boss from the Bookstore, and Summer, my costume professor). In any case, I'd love for everyone to keep their fingers crossed for me - I really think this would be a great opportunity for the summer, to be close to the largest concentration of my family and to be making connections in the theater business.
Other than that, I've had a pretty decent week as weeks go. Monday I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Odeon Theater in English with Italian subtitles, and I can honestly say it was the best made move I have seen in years. It's an incredibly beautiful movie, and I'm putting it on the top of my list of favorites. I swear almost every shot in that movie could be a gorgeous photograph, which is, I think, how a movie should be shot. My only complaint: it didn't start until 9pm on a Monday night, which made Tuesday morning's 8:30 am Italian class pretty painful. Then it kind of happened again last night - I went to a piano recital of Russian woman oltrarno at the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristoforo, a museum for fortepiano and pianoforte, and after three encores, we didn't make it home until almost midnight. Luckily, tonight's free, so I'll get all caught up on homework and sleep. Tomorrow night I'm going to try to get last minute tickets to the opera, since it's sold out, and if I fail, I'll go sing karaoke at a bar near the Piazza della Signoria.
I'm a little skeptical/tentative about going to Venice this weekend for carnevale. I'm really excited for Venice itself and for carnevale, but I'm not as excited for going with all of GIF. Both my roommates are really nice girls that I don't know very well, so I'm sure that will be fun to get to know them, but I'm worried about the alcohol thing. Everyone here seems to drink like it's going out of style, and I don't ever drink more than wine with dinner because (a) I like keeping control of myself and knowing my surroundings, (b) I don't think you need alcohol to have a good time, and (c) it makes me horribly sick after more than a glass or so. I just hope I can find a group of people who want to have fun sober. There's so much to do and see in Venice, I think it's such a shame to only come home with stories of how much you drank.
Oh! one more thing before I get back to work. I forgot to mention that last week I got hit by a car! It's okay, I didn't really get hurt, since he really just clobbered me with his mirror and I bounced off the side of his car, but it's kind of a crazy story nonetheless. Luckily I only came out with some bruises and some frustration at the driver, who didn't even stop to see if I was okay. I'm currently writing on it for my creative writing class, so I'll post that when I finish it in the next week or so and you can get the whole story there. Suffice to say, the roads in Italy are not very wide and the drivers not very cautious and if you ever step off the sidewalk, even for a minute, you should watch your back if you value your life.
Hope all is well in the states, and that your day will be as gorgeous as mine is. Here's hoping sping comes early for us all this year!
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