urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:chi_dorme87 She who sleeps does not catch fish. Julia 2008-09-21T04:18:25Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:chi_dorme87:34181 2008-09-21T04:18:25Z 2008-09-21T04:18:25Z I am very sorry to report that Karl Tamburr of the SBC English Department passed away this morning.<br /><br />Tamburr, you were the best. RIP. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:chi_dorme87:20929 2008-04-01T00:36:46Z 2008-04-01T00:36:46Z You were a truly wonderful person and a great friend. I never needed to meet you in person to know that. Thank you for all your wisdom and cheer over the years. RIP, darling. The world's a sadder place without you, but you're remembered well.<br /><br />&lt;3 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:chi_dorme87:14273 2007-12-28T15:40:31Z 2007-12-28T15:43:00Z Well, I have spent more than a few days seeking a way to begin talking about Italy and Siena and everything it meant to me, but that is quite a difficult thing. It would be easy, perhaps to start from the beginning and create a linear timeline, but while I think my journeys can certainly be approached that way, the overall experience of Siena cannot. First, I'd like to take a minute to quantify Italy since I can't quite qualify it. I think by the beginning of next week, I might be ready to approach it more fully, but this week was for sleep and acclimation and Christmas.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />98 days<br /><br />2,526 pictures <br /><br />88 postcards<br /><br />19 cities (Rome, Siena, Grosseto, Castiglione della Pescaia, San Gimignano, Messina, Palermo, Padua, Venice, Milan, Paris, Geneva, Montreux, Lucca, Pisa, Naples, Pompeii, Florence, and Perugia)<br /><br />27 days traveling<br /><br />35 churches/cathedrals (entered, we won't talk about seen and studied...)<br /><br />28 museums<br /><br />1 dormant volcano<br /><br />2 swims in the Mediterranean<br /><br />12 towers, church domes, and abnormally high walls climbed, totaling around 5,000 stairs<br /><br />9 classmates<br /><br />6 utterly fantastic Italian professors<br /><br />15 credit hours (Conversation and Composition, Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art and Architecture, The Three Crowns of Italian Literature, and History of the Italian People)<br /><br />10 hours of class/week<br /><br />37 compositions<br /><br />3 essays (in Italian)<br /><br />33 CDs (9 purchased: Francesco Renga, Irene Grandi, Gianna Nannini, Punkreas, Negramaro, Modena City Ramblers, La Forza del Destino, Deportivo, Oleg Yulag)<br /><br />10 books read (Anansi Boys, The Da Vinci Code, Rose Madder, The Decameron Volumes 1&2, L'Inferno, Purgatorio, La Vita Nuova, The Moon and the Bonfire, The Leopard, The Shawl, and Dracula)<br /><br />7 plays, ballets, and operas (Falstaff, OZ, I Due Gemelli Veneziani, Addio Goro, Acqua/Mozart, La Forza del Destino, The Merry Widow)<br /><br />5 films (Little Heroes [in Hebrew w/English subs], In Questo Mondo Libero, Resident Evil: Extinction [in Italian!], I Vicere, Lezioni di Cioccolato)<br /><br />2 film festivals (Terra Film Festival and Siena's short film festival) - 14 showings, 78 films, 21 hours<br /><br />4 soccer games - 1 loss, 1 win, 2 ties<br /><br />5 concerts<br /><br />17 contrada fountains**<br /><br />700 Euro worth of gifts<br /><br />7 crepes<br /><br />5 baci di Siena**<br /><br />39 slices of pizza<br /><br />dozens of gelati...I lost count<br /><br />4 trips to the Tea Room**<br /><br />17 trips to Bella Vista**<br /><br />60 dinners with my amazing host mother, Maria Grazia<br /><br />125 emails from Jess<br /><br />24 phone calls to my mother<br /><br />6 African husbands**<br /><br /><br /><br />**to be explained later, if you're a bit confused, have no fear urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:chi_dorme87:564 2007-07-10T04:20:29Z 2007-07-10T04:34:46Z <img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/cinderedna87/Greece%20and%20Turkey/011_09A-1.jpg" height="50%" width="50%" /><br /><br /><b>This journal is friends only.</b>