I decided to write a quick note. 2nd day of classes today. Once again did my usual me and rolled out of bed into some clothes and over to class. First class of the day photography. I'm very excited for this class, I know that I have a decent idea of composition but I really didn't know how to use my camera, after our first lesson on, you guessed it, how to use my camera I seem to be doing lots better. I definitly have a while to go. Stephanie (my roomate) helped me tonight work with some blurry issues. Her pictures are well... very good, quite humbling actually, most of my friends' pictures (well really all who take pictures are). Hopefully practice will make perfect. I think I'm starting to realize my main problem in photography, which is my slight fear of taking photographs in public (I HATE stopping and getting pictures) but I guess I will have to get used to it. Additionally I should just take more pictures of my friends. 1 out of 10 has to turn out ok doesn't it? I then went home to take a nap and do some work on my project before my 2nd class of the day. Not so sure how I feel about that one yet. I think right now it is a whole lot of information on subjects that I know absolutely nothing about, which I am not at all used to. I am used to either having experience or a little knowledge, so right now I think I am overwhelmed.
Also I'm pretty sure I'm still in a bit of a daze "oh I'm in Rome, oh I'm taking classes, oh well they must be good!" Well one thing is for sure in all my classes this semester I will not feel unfufilled (FINALLY!) Yup that's right, no more stupid professors who teach city planning classes without ever really talking about cities, no more freshman classes that cover common sense (but we're teaching you HOW to learn, yeah I know how you're boring me and I will not let you waste my time so I will spend it doing something else, oh am I getting in my own way, you sure you're just not teaching at the level of 7th graders?) No more people trying to talk about cities in a way that I'm supposed to learn from but really just consist of "I think this city is dirty and has potholes." So yeah I'm pretty happy that we are actually going to be learning and I don't have to deal with stupid electives... I'm pretty sure I can continue this on next year (hopefully). Wow, why don't you tell us how you really feel? Don't get me wrong, I have had some amazing classes (many) which have taught me a great deal, I have just gotten unlucky with electives, and some of my "higher" level planning courses, esp last semester, although I have found my property, gentrification, and displacement class very usefull (the one I took pass fail...)
After our last class a bunch of us had signed up to go wine tasting. It was nice because it was more of a class on how to taste wine, not just "taste these wines." It's a pretty good skill to have here in Italy. A few of us ended up there for about 3 hrs until 8:30. I arrived back here and of course have since been able to acomplish very little and it's already 11:30, looks like another long night.
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