Ciao, This weekend was awesome! Myself and 6 other girls from OUA went to Venice this weekend for Carnevale. It was so much fun. I’ll give you a short run down of all of the things we got to do and see while we were there! We left on Thursday February 16th after everyone was finished with [...[...]
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Ciao from Arezzo!
Hello, My name is Tyler and I am studying in Arezzo, Italy for the spring 2012 semester. I am going to try and post once a week about all of the fun and exciting things going on here at the OUA campus. Yesterday, February 15th, Kirk Duclaux’s Art History class and Dr. Stephenson’s music [...]
Siena and Viareggio
On September 7 we visited the Tuscan city Siena with our art history class. We toured the Duomo and some other museums there, focusing on pre-Renaissance art. We saw Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove. We got to climb up and get a great view of [...][...]
La Giostra del Saracino — The Joust!
Arezzo has a great tradition of a semi-annual joust of the Saracen, “La Giostra del Saracino.” It is held in the Piazza Grande in the center of Arezzo, and the four neighborhoods, “quartieres,” compete against each other. It has a long history in Arezzo, dating back to the[...]
Lost in Lambo Land
On Labor Day we had a day off class, so we decided to take the day and visit the Lamborghini Factory! It ended up being a fun day, but had quite the rough start. The factory is located in Sant’Agata Bolognese, a tiny town outside of Bologna, which meant two trains and [...][...]
October 1st, 2011 - 5:14 pm § in Italy, OU in Arezzo
La Sagra in Ponte Alla Chiassa
First, I must preface this by saying I have an amazing set of Italian family here around Arezzo. They are somewhat distant (one group related to my great-grandfather, and the other group we don’t even know exactly how–just know that we are indeed family). I call them my “cousins&#[...]
September 24th, 2011 - 1:59 pm § in Italy, OU in Arezzo
Ciao Arezzo!
On Monday, August 22nd, around 11:00 am, we departed Rome. Or at least we were supposed to. We had gotten to Termini (Rome’s main train station) early, all ready to hop on the train and head to Arezzo, but the binaro (the train line) number never came up on the board. We [...][...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 12:29 pm § in Italy, OU in Arezzo
Rome-ing Around
Andy and I arrived to Rome three days early for a little honeymoon before heading to Arezzo to begin classes. I was disappointed with our taxi ride to Rome. I had told Andy about last year when there was a traffic jam on the highway, and everyone was just ignoring lanes, fitting through whatever [[...]