September 7

I amaze myself with the clever titles I give my posts. :)
This was going to be the coolest post ever because I was going to upload some pictures (because I just learned how to upload them from my camera to my computer!), but I can't figure out how to get them from my desktop to my blog. If anyone knows how, please let me know. Until then, my blogs will continue to go picture-less.
Yesterday I went to a city called Ravenna. It is best known for it's beautiful mosaics! (I wish I could show you pictures, but I think google will do a better job anyway.) It is also the city where Dante is buried. At the site of his tomb, everyone in my class read two stanzas of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Such a cool experience. And then the views from the train ride were also really beautiful! Rolling hills in the back with vineyards closer to the train tracks and some beautiful villas here and there. It was like the drive up the 5 in California in the sense that there were farms with houses and abandoned houses, with the obvious difference that there were villas and abandoned villas, and everything was green and beautiful!
Then I came home and had a wonderful dinner with my roommates and some of their friends. And what I discovered during that dinner was not that my Italian has gotten better, but that my English has gotten worse. I couldn't remember how to say some words in English, and other words I said with an Italian accent.