Clara

When in Rome

Monday started off rocky for me…I woke up at 3:30 in the morning with a horrible stomachache. In hindsight it probably wasn’t the WORST, but I have a low pain tolerance and hardly ever get sick. Knock on wood. Anyway, I couldn’t fall back asleep and eventually had to mosey on into the bathroom for …

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One FINAL Saturday

I woke up bright and early Saturday to get in some last minute studying before our final at 10 a.m. Turns out the final wasn’t bad at all, I think I made a 98? After getting out of the final around 10:15, we had a little break before our professors and Marco had a wine lunch …

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When in Montalcino…Have Their Brunello

We woke up Friday morning ready to go on our last field trip, this time visiting a few places in Montalcino. Our first stop was to Abbazia di Sant’Antimo, which was once a Benedictine monastery and is now considered one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in all of Italy. I will say it was beautiful, …

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Chateau Charlemagne

The Thursday morning after sangria rolled around sooner than any of us wanted, but class (and group presentations) started at 8:30 so we all moseyed on down to Severini (the building our class was in). The group presentations all went well and were actually pretty entertaining to listen to. My group was assigned the region …

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