Firenze

It rained this morning on the way to the train we took to Florence. Fitting, since I was mourning inside for having to leave Tuscania so quickly. Luckily, I sat in the front with Carlito (Massimo’s puppy) who promptly fell asleep on my lap after giving me loads of kisses. (Don’t you dare tell Gus!) It rained for most of the morning, but on the train from Orte to Florence we were dry and after almost 2 hours, it stopped just in time for us to grab a taxi into the city of Florence.

I toured the campus of Lorenzo de’Medici Florence with the director of the school for the majority of the afternoon. The campus really spreads out throughout the city. I was amazed at the studio art space, restoration examples, fashion design facilities, and involvement LdM has within the community of Florence.

Sample classroom    Fashion design room    Dance room    Computer lab- one of many

Student Commons    Art Restoration    More Art Restoration    Jewelry Design lab   

Jewelry Design

These students clearly have the space and support to be creative in many ways. The school’s facilities are wonderful and their administrative staff is fantastic. I was finally able to put a face to each name I have sent faxes to for almost a year now. I must say, they are all much younger and more beautiful than I had pictured!

We had lunch with Carlotta, one of the student advisors that works most closely with our study abroad students and dinner with the director and owner of the school. They are both so generous and lovely. Tomorrow we have a few meetings, I will be able to sit in on another class (today I visited an Italian language class), and I will tour the housing! I know the future students are very interested in seeing the housing! I will take lots of pictures, as always, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to post tomorrow night. We are leaving Florence on a 4pm train direct to Venice, and will arrive in our accommodations in Venice quite late at night. I will get the pictures up and post again as soon as I can!

To answer your question Mom, I’m terrified to find my way to the airport on my own at 4am in Venice on Saturday, but I’ll figure it out! I think it’s a water bus to someplace, then a bus or taxi on land from there. “Aeroporto?!”

 Mary in a cooking class!    View of Florence from a sample apartment

Cindy, Stefania, and Marco (the chef) in our cooking class    sample bedroom

Sample single    sample kitchen    sample living space    living room    another bedroom

bedroom

~ by bccstudyabroad on November 14, 2007.