Yesterday and today have been my relaxing days. Since I have been running on pretty much pure excitement since arriving it caught up with me in less than a week and I am now fighting off a cold. This morning I read my schedule wrong and I thought I had class at 12 and around 11:30 I realized that my class had actually started at 9. If I were in the states I know exactly what I would have done. I would have panicked, got really emotional and ran to class. Something about Italy has made me reevaluate the time in my life I spend worrying about things. There is no need to worry, my life is so amazing I have absolutely no reason to feel sad. So anyways this class is literally 5 hours long....so I had the time. So I set off across the river to my class which it turns out was on the other side of the city. It was about a 20 min walk. Once I got there the professor was extremely understanding and he just gave me a chunk of clay and told me to experiment with it for the next two hours. Which is what I did.
As I sat sculpting I thought about the irony of what I was doing and where I was doing it. Not two blocks down the street is the Piazza De San Marco where a massive bronze statue expertly crafted was staring into the back of my head through the buildings. Here I was putzing around with a little clay heart in the city where some of greatest sculptures to ever live did some of their greatest work. Well everyone has to start somewhere I guess. I just hope my works don't ever see the light of day, they would be considered an embarrassment to this city:)
I will write more tomorrow about my next day of class.
Caio for now
Natalie
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