I am no longer without a semi-permanent home! I am in a beautiful and wonderfully sized apartment that has a washing machine in the kitchen, a balcony in all the rooms, and an amazing view from each single-paned wooden-framed window. I don’t think I could have found a place where I would be happy. I…

In addition, I think you all should go check out Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. The first woman to graduate from a University. In the WORLD. From University of Padova. vive le donne!   Also, I bought all of this today…guess how much for? …90 cents. And those carrots were the best carrots I’ve ever had.…

Pardon my absence for the past week +/-, we’ve been living in the stone-ish ages without any wifi. it’s vintage. and I like it as much as I don’t. It is nice to be without the internet, but when you’re in a city that you have yet to understand and you are overflowing with questions,…

Today was a serious day of food. Indulge with me, if you will. Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI (figuring this was a day of some Italian food-stereotypical Italian song.) Read: Because it was my last full day in the mountains with my host family, we decided to try and do everything. So we woke up, and ate from…