Trovato in Firenze.

PANDA PANDA PANDA-palooza cars found everywhere! I have a collection of Panda car/van pics! More up lata!

E Grace Jones, betch!!

Someone musta missed Rome?

I Miei Ristoranti Preferiti

Così....

Non ho mai avuto il cibo così tanto italiano nella mia vita!! L'amo, ma non penso che lo potrei mangiare di tutti i giorni. Ho bisogno della varietà, ma questi sono i miei favoriti in Firenze:

Quando quando lei corre basso i soldi, ma tuttavia volere il cibo delizioso (**e hanno 'take-away')

IL RISGORMENTO, chiamiamo nostre BFF's, perché siamo lì molto :P 

Via Pisana, 118/r   Tel. 005.220895

TRATTORIA DELL'ORTO, Eravamo portati qui per il nostro primo pranzo di FIT con Professoressa Bertoletti. Abbiamo avuto un molto riempendo 8 pasto di corso! 

 

Via Dell'Orto 35/A     Tel.  39.055.224248

SBARCO PIRATI, Il primo ristorante che abbiamo cenati in Firenze, e molto davano il benvenuto! Il più, il grande cibo! OH, e una belly -dancer!(the first restaurant we had dinner in Firenze and they were very welcoming! Plus, great food!)

Viale Raffaello Sanzio, 6      Tel. 055.2298587

Accademia.

Home of Michelangelo's David. Enormous. As you have learned it is proportionally off, such as it's slightly larger hands and head. This is true to fact, very visible in it's true form. David used to be placed on a higher platform, so from a viewer looking upward the distortions become proportionate, but since platform has been cut down the proportions become more disfigured. The attention to detail is mind boggling, from the pulsing veins in his hands to the dips of his ribcage. (I snuck some pics from my camera phone) 

Cupid and Venus, by Jacopo Carucci, inspired from Michelangelo's cartoon, was my most favorite piece of the Galleria dell'Accademia. It's a story of:

"Michelangelo was a love poet and a friend of the patron, so we should expect the symbolism to be subtle, ambiguous and complex. Venus and Cupid kiss. Venus points to her heart wit her left hand, and her right, possible to an altar to Venus decorated with masks, Cupid's bow, a pile of arrows, a bowl of roses and a statuette of a wounded man. Perhaps she is not pointing but rather stealing one of Cupid's arrows, which may explain why she glances slyly back at them. The other arrows spill from his quiver, heads down, possibly wounding Venus' thigh. 

The figures are so cleverly interlocked that it is not clear who is deceiving whom, or the nature of the love represented. This may be a version of the story of Venus disarming Cupid, a frequent subject in this period. Or it may be the episode recounted in Ovid's Metamorphosis, when as Venus kisses Cupid she is unwittingly wounded by one of his arrows and falls in love with Adonis. " --royalcollection.org.uk 

Mercato Centrale.

Very similar to our Chelsea Market back home in New York, is Mercato Centrale here in Florence. Even though I have never been to the Chelsea Market, I would imagine that they would not have some of the things I have seen here. I have seen these kind of slaughters (excuse my vocab) in the Filipino Markets, so it wasn't shocking to me as it was to the other students. In Italy everything is fresh to begin with, so Mercato Centrale is one step before that and extraordianarly fresh. At one point during lunch I'm pretty sure we heard birds squawking and animals moo-ing to save their lives. Although, I avoid these departments in the Filipino markets because, it is too much for my stomach and mentality to handle, but for the sake of this assignment I sucked it up and took these lovely photos for you. 

Compiti: Fare due elenci di che cose mangiara e non mangiara. (Homework: To make two lists of what things you would eat and not eat.)

GUSTOSO (tasty)

-La Frutta, funghi, pomodoro silicani secchi, vino, salume, fiore, tortellini, formaggio e biscotti.

NON GUSTOSO (not tasty)

                              

-YES, that 3rd picture..it is what it looks like. Sorry it's 2 other friends don't come in a set. Zampone classico puro suino(pig's leg/hoof), Bottarga di Muggine (tongue), Bresaola di Cavallo (horse breast), Mussetto cotto di Vitella (cow face), L'amredotto cotto nostrale, teste maile (pig head), orecchie maile (pig ear) e galletto livonesa (rooster)

Palazzo di Pitti. Holler.

Il Palazzo di Pitti, un castello opprimente, che abitava Italia famiglia potente, il Medici, e poi Napoleon. Ma il Medici predomina vissuto in questa casa per i secoli. Senza fine gli ammontare di dettagli decorati, ogni pollice quadrato era bello, anche la polvere era dei probabilmente residui di oro. Il Palazzo è stato diventato un culmine di musei, alcuni per esempio che erano incluso sono i lavori dal Rinascimento, l'Arte Moderna, ed il Museo di Costume. I Giardini di Boboli, il loro cortile posteriore, è un'altra caratteristica del Palazzo. Sorprendentemente la mia parte preferita vedeva le camere da letto e come erano preparati. Era un po'misterioso, ma mi ha dato un senso del loro vivere. Il secondo favorito, era la galleria di costume.

(Pitti Palace, an overwhelming mansion, which used to inhabit Italy's powerful family, the Medici's, and then Napoleon. But the Medici's predominately lived in this house for centuries. Endless amounts of ornate details, every square inch was beautiful, even the dust was probably remnants of gold. The Palace has been turned into a culmination of museums, some for example that were included are the works from the Renaissance, Modern Art, and Costume Museum. The Boboli Gardens, their backyard, is another feature of the Palace. Surprisingly my favorite part was seeing the bedrooms and how they were set up. It was a little eerie, but it gave me a sense of their living. Second favorite, was the costume gallery.) 

No photos were allowed, so these are from the internet to give ya an idea. 

Palazzo di Pitti

Boboli Gardens 

Vacanze Romane.

Roman Holiday. Every girl's dream. Although I wasn't swept away by a dashing gentlemen on Vespa, I had an amazing weekend with some crazy ladies. 

So it turns out that our Hostel was amazing, 'cause it originally was supposed to be 5 of us girls, but one bailed and it turned out to be 4. The original room for 5 was under construction, so they gave us the new renovated room in the new building, which was a 3 bedroom apartment. AMAZING. A great start I must say. We walked around and familiarized ourself with the city, saw the Piazza Venezia, Piazza di Spagna, Via del Corso and just the other sites. Oh! and the Fontana di Trevi! Gorgeous. Circa Dolca Vita. I guess we created a mob paparazzi scene. All the high school kids were pretty much jumping on us. They thought Dyne and Kaitlyn looked like Brenda Song and Ashley Tissdale. Hahhhhhh. Followed by a home-made dinner and bottles of wine to celebrate Roma! Nothing too heavy. 

Second day, Sunday was our busiest day, we were going to try and fit all of the sites in. It could not have been more of a perfect day in Rome. The sun was shining and people didn't have their  First stop was to the Colosseo, the lighting worked so well to take photos with. Even though I had a stinky digital it still worked out alright. I was very excited to use my Polaroid in taking pictures of these historic sites! We, also saw the Pantheon, mmm I'm forgetting now all the other places we went to. heh. It's unbelievable to me how these structures are still in such great shape considering how many centuries old they are. I can't grasp the fact that people actually roamed that land as everyday life... I'm going to the Colosseum to watch the Emperor slay someone today. How insane. The most impressive, is the art. Seeing pictures and learning about these paintings in class don't do anything justice. By physically seeing these, it becomes even more astonishing. I feel like our generation will not leave that much of a cultural impact. Well maybe not as rich of an impact, as to any classical work.

Nightlife. What's to do on a Sunday night? Everything is usually lame. Not this time around. We actually joined in on a Pubcrawl.... we met at the Spanish Steps at 17:00.... and that's when things started to become blurry and out of control. That was my first time doing it, and it was pretty crazy. We met so many people from everywhere, and even met a girl who was in my cheerleading district and knew people from my school. Talk about 8 degrees of separation! We jumped around from 4 bars scattered throughout Rome. Upon entering each place you had to take a shot at the door. Sweet. Keeping this blog G rated since it is for class. All-in-all we all had a pretty memorable/not memorable night. 

(Sopra)Bocca della Verita(Mouth of Truth) and the remains of where the Chariot races took place. 

Italiano Parte: (work in progress)Con la nostra uno tre giorno fine settimana, abbiamo deciso andare a Roma. Era una fine settimana perfetta! Il hostelo quello abbiamo stato era bellisima, abbiamo avuto il edificio a nostre! 

Lectura Una

Lindsay ha i capelli rossi, lunghi e ricci. Ha alta e snella. Una ragazza di dicotto anni. Ha gli occhi verdi e il naso regolare e con labbra piccola. E molta simpatica, socievole e sempre di buon umore. Suo preferito colore e verde. Anche e studia a moda a FIT. 

(Lindsay has red hair, long and curly. She is tall and slender. She is a girl of eighteen years. She has green eyes and a regular nose and with small lips. She is very kinda, sociable and always in a good mood. Her favorite color is green. Also, she studies fashion design at FIT.