Showing posts with label san marco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label san marco. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Conveyer belt sushi!















Last night Mom and I went out for a really fun dinner at a Japanese place called Kome. The sushi comes around on a conveyer belt and you just grab what you want. At the end they count up your plates and charge you accordingly. One of the best parts was not having to wait to get food! To be honest I'm not sure exactly what I ate, but it was all delicious. My favorite thing was some type of tempura rice ball covered in a creamy sauce.

Today was such a hectic fun day! For my art history class we met at the San Marco museum (twice in two days!), went outside the Medici Palace and then to San Lorenzo. My cultures and context teacher was shadowing the lesson and I enjoyed having two brilliant professors in one place! I like it when worlds collide. Then my cultures and context professor, Bruce, and I walked over to the archeological museum. Our class was spent looking at art from the Etruscan period, including the famous Chimera! I went up to campus for Italian and then met my mom to show her around the campus. We walked down back down to florence, went shopping and then went out to dinner with Chloe. We wandered around down by the train station and stopped at a nice looking place that had seats outside. Mom got a salad and tagliolini with bolognese. Chloe and I eat had salads and then split a pizza with tuna, onions and olives. For dessert we went to Grom for gelato (as usual). I got dark chocolate and nugat! One of the best flavor combos yet! 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

You can take the girl out of America, but you can't take America out of the girl



Salad with shrimp, avocado, ham and tomatoes 





I'm lucky enough to be visited by my mom this week! Having people from home in my life makes all the difference. Last night I met her at her hotel and we went to dinner in Piazza della Repubblica. I had a salad and mussels and mom had a salad and pasta bolognese. The mussels I got were amazing, but so garlicky! Usually Tuscan bread is usually underwhelming, but they toasted it with olive oil and salt which was great to soak up all the sauce. We both got Nastro Azzurro beers to wash it all down with.

Today in my art class we spent the morning in San Marco, drawing along with the likes of Fra Angelico. I've learned about the Annunciation (pictured above) so many times, that I decided I HAD to draw it. Of course drawing an amazing work of art that took seven years to make in two hours is impossible, but I still enjoyed analyzing every detail! It's not easy!