Pasqua is Easter in Italian and I had a pretty pleasant pasqua in Florence. On Sunday our professor invited everyone over for lunch (all 16 of us) which was very nice. We had Lasagna and lamb, salad, olives, sausage and wine and for dessert we had fresh pinnapple and pasqua bread which is a type of sweet bread in the shape of an angel. It's really good. We were all throughly stuffed and content wnen we left. We wandered down to the market in the piazza of Santa Croche. There were all these artisans there, potters, artists, leather workers, jewelers, even a metal worker hammering out copper. It was such a lovely day. A perfect Easter Sunday, weather wise. Not like at home, where it's usually damp and has a likely hood of snowing. . .
We still had class today, even though it is a national holiday in Italy called "Little Easter" where people traditionally take a picnic out to the countryside. But alas not for us! I had literature class this morning and am hanging out at school taking care of anything that requires the internet. Though I hopeful will get down to the StudentCell place tomorrow to buy a modem so I can get Internet anywhere and not have to waste my daylight hours in front of a computer screen!
This weekend we take our trip to Rome for three days. We leave Saturday morning and stay until Monday. Monday afternoon some of the group is going on the see Pompeii, and then heading back to Florence on Tuesday. Since we're so close, Pompeii is only a couple hours from Rome. So that'll be really neat. I can't wait to see that actual place. I went to the Pompeii exhibit at the Field Museum three years ago and was awed. So going to Pompeii isn't something I'm going to miss!
Ciao!
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