Florence

Last weekend we went on our last trip to Florence. It was really warm and it felt good to be out of Siena. Florence is by far my favorite city I have been to. It's big, has a lot of shopping and famous sites and is fairly cheap. It feels a lot like Rome, but its not as scary. We went to visit a couple of churches we havn't been to yet and walked around a bit. Some of the people in our group are sick of seeing churches(a lot of them look the same) and wanted to go do some shopping. They ran away while the teacher was busy, so they could do their own thing. At one of the small churches we went to, we were able to see some more of Michelangelo's work. A wealthy family in Florence wanted to build their own church to worship and they asked Michelangelo to make them pieces of artwork to decorate the area. We got to see some unfinished works by Michelangelo while he was working for the family. He used to find Cadavers while he was an artist and he would cut them up so he could see the anatomy of a human body. He did this in secrecy and everyone wondered how he could make a statue look so realistic with all of the muscles and bones in the right places. He was horrible at making women though. Looking at the statues of women was actually really funny. It was just a man with....added parts. The women looked really ugly. While we were sitting there laughing at the artwork our professor came by and told us we needed to be quiet. One of the girls under her breath said, "Yeah, like that is ever gonna happen." The professor then clasped her hands together, tilted her head and in a high pitched voice goes, "Well if not, I'm going to have to drowned you all in that little fountain." It was so creepy. She then went off talking to herself about how their might not be enough water and how she would have to position us under the fountain so that it would drown us correctly. She is evil.

Then for lunch we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. I didn't want to tell them I had enough money, so I just went with them telling them I wasn't gonna eat, I wasn't that hungry. They ended up paying for me, which I was mad about, so now I have to pay them back. Ugh. I also have this bus fine I have to get out of. It's been a stressful couple of days, expecially since I have finals next week. Crazy. Anyways, I love you. Ciao