Day #60 in Orvieto

April 23, 2013 – Tuesday

Today was our first 3-hour Dante class, and it was really good! We did a lot of writing and poetry as we tried to “imitate” Dante, which doesn’t sound like it would be that fun, but it was pretty enjoyable. I’m excited about the class although it will definitely be a lot of work. After class, we had chapter meeting and Prof Doll was there! He was in the States this past week and he brought us back a ton of candy which was so exciting and it made chapter meeting significantly more exciting and interesting (not that it isn’t always exciting…). We went to lunch as usual and then came back to the monastery to do some work. Laura and I went to the travel agent this afternoon because we wanted to figure out if it was possible to visit Kelly in Edinburgh within the next month. The travel agent told us how much it would cost so then we left because we weren’t sure but then a few hours later, we returned to the travel agent. So indecisive! But then something was wrong with her computer so we ended up leaving again, ticketless! We’ll try to go back tomorrow though.

For the last hour before dinner, I decided to go on a walk around the perimeter of Orvieto, which was so peaceful, and I hadn’t been to visit the duomo in a while. It’s weird because the duomo looks so different at any point in the day, depending on where the sun is. Today it looked glowing and almost orangey-yellow in the sunset. Anyways, then I went to dinner (soup) and we all went back to the monastery for Internet time and the movie, Megamind! I didn’t really watch the entire movie though because I had to read a little bit and write a poem for class tomorrow.