Day #111 in Orvieto

June 13, 2013 – Thursday

Thursday was our last day of class and our final presentation! We didn’t really have a real class though, we just went down to the studio to see the final art projects and read our poems next to the art that was made for our poem. Sara made her final project about my pigeon poem so it was fun to see what she had been working on for the past week and to see it next to my poem. We only had the final critique for 2 hours so then we had an hour before chapter meeting to start cleaning the monastery. I ran to the market quickly to buy a few more things, then came back to the monastery to clean the academic room. In chapter meeting, we heard Prof Doll’s life story, which was so interesting because we don’t really know much about his life. After his story, he read us a “farewell letter” and there were a few tears. We had sandwiches at the monastery for lunch so we all sat in the courtyard to eat them in the sun. I packed for a little while, then we went to Prof Doll’s house at 3:30 so his wife, Sharona, could teach us how to bake the cakes that she always makes for us whenever someone has a birthday. While the cake was baking, Prof Doll showed us some of his art and that was great because we had never seen any of his paintings before! 

We stayed at their house until 6pm, went back to the monastery to get ready for the final Locanda dinner, then left for Locanda around 8. There were forty people between the two tables! Twenty students, Prof Doll’s family, Alessandro’s family, and the professors’ families. Locanda served us a huge five course meal and then Mauro (the owner of Locanda) did some karaoke for us and he moved the tables away so we could have a dance party. It was the strangest thing that’s even happened here (except for the dove parade for Corpus Christi) but it was so wonderful and sad to leave Locanda! We left Locanda at 1am, came back to continue packing, and then went to bed pretty late/early. Tomorrow is our last day in Orvieto!

One of Tim's photos!