pupazzo di neve

Saturday Talin Steph and I went to see a movie in the movie theater here for the first time since i've been in italy...we were going to see Revolutionary Road but there was only one showing during the day so we ended up seeing the Reader instead. after getting lost trying to find the theater because there was no streetname visible for the street it was on, we finally got there like 10 minutes after it had started. the theater was super nice with huge rooms and spacious chairs and the experience reminded me of being at home. i love seeing movies. this was dubbed in italian and we missed the beginning, but it was a really good movie...but also extremely sad/depressing because it is about a women who has an affair with a younger man and then she ends up being a nazi and going to jail forever and he still loves her and blah blah...

on Sunday, i went to the mountains with Lizelle, her host mom Thea and her friend. we went to Asiago which is a little over an hour away from Padova up in the mountains and it was beautiful. the entire drive i just looked out the window at the views of the super cute houses and then the cabins in the mountains : )

once we got there, Lizelle and i played in the snow while her host mom went skiing. we made a snowman, snow angels, and i dug a hole to lay in, but we never finished the snowman cuz we had to get out of the snow. i didnt have pants for the snow of course, but i also had no shoes for the snow...so i was wearing my crappy payless shoes and i got soaked in about 5 minutes, but i still had a lot of fun! we walked around and looked at the little town in Asiago after this. i forgot to mention but before we went in the snow we stopped at a cheese factory place and Thea bought some cheese and they had Asiago samples out and it was delish. then we also had to go to a grocery store because they didnt have all the cheese that she wanted, haha. we stayed there til about 4pm and then drove home. its been a while since ive been in a car, so i just really enjoyed driving and looking out the window at the amazing italian scenery. we got back around 530 and i met up with Talin and Steph in centro because there were lots of stands with random foods and things because it was "festa della donna", basically a day to celebrate women. we went to Banale later that night and it was the welcome party for the new semester of erasmus students so it was super crowded.

my classes are pretty much figured out now and i only have them on mondays tuesdays wednesdays which is pretty awesome. i am taking a literature/history of popular traditions class which basically just means we are learning about fairy tales fables and legends; and a "modern" art history class which so far is just international gothic art; and an econ of developing countries class...pretty different for me. but i am interested to see how they turn out. i am also trying to find an internship somehow hopefully related to the arts/maybe working with an artist. 

wednesday(yesterday) i had classes as usual but on wednesdays every class is an hour shorter than they normally are so that is cool. Then in the evening i met up with Paolo for tandem and then went home for dinner with Tal while we watched the breakfast club before we went to prato to meet up with Martino and others that did the carnivale card project...then we all went to piazza and met up with Steph, Liza, Larissa and others and hung out before we headed to Fishmarket. we saw a lot of different groups of friends throughout the night and it was fun. 

i was thinking about going to Firenze this weekend to get away but now i am thinking about waiting til two weekends now when every one else is in spain...hmm.

a presto.