Day 18

Day 18

It's crazy to think that I am on week three of four of this Urbino adventure. Deadlines and sleeping in class are approaching fast.

We watched another foreign film called, "Cinema Paradiso." That movie was one of the best I have seen, and one of the saddest. I highly recommend it. In fact, I would like to watch it again (and that's saying something because usually I only like to watch a movie once then any more times it just gets old).

Another GREAT movie we saw last week was "La Grande Bellezza." That opening scene and then the rooftop dance party blew my mind. It was the majestic bengal tiger of films. This one I will also be watching again so I can analyze it and try to comprehend everything that happened.

Afterwords, Alli, Victoria, and I took the town. We met this wonderful student, Alessandra, who we talked to pretty much the entire night. What I thought was so interesting was that she said I had an American face and the blond American hair. We got onto the subject of stereotypes and she said that American women are stereotyped for being easy (that's why they get so many cat calls), while male Americans are stereotyped for being dumb (and that is pretty accurate).

Cigarets are also huge in Italy. For the past weeks, I've gotten use to the smell here because you can't simply avoid it. I decided to try one last night, though I didn't understand the "buzz" that people get from it, but I did enjoy the taste.

That's it from Urbino tonight!