River on my Birthday, Pool on Sunday, Lou Reed but not on Monday

too cool to pool

and it burns burns burns, in the ring of fire

SO much going on here lately:

July1st-7th Theatre Festival with performers from Berlin, Budapest, Poland, Dublin, and california
July 9th Birthday
July 10th end of Summer I
July 11th-14th Rhodes Choir visit
July15th Summer II commedia program starts

Things that occured in the last month or so:

I drunkenly ran into ropes holding up a volley ball net on Martin's last night and recieved a very nice rope burn:arm and leg . . . I won't forget that night

My friends had a fire/commedia/juggling show in Arezzo in this ancient amphitheatre:

Samuel Angus McGehee

I danced with a tarantella group I had trained with for a couple of weeks in said amphitheatre for the arts festival (also one of the most incredible performance/dance/choral experience I've ever had):

we danced on rugs

The live music was incredible, the drums, you can't help but move

Gianni: "The women are like gazels, the men, like lions"

Bitten by the tarantula

Hung out with some crazy Polish kids, always had drums and a sax, and fairy wings, they were like a parade everywhere they went. I had never met so many Arezzo cops until they showed up:

The pols
Giaccamo + Devin

the rose

negative rose

We walked home, and it was cold, and we couldn't find our very drunk friend who ran off into a city in which she did not know the language, she doesn't remember how she got home.

Villa Wedding

Vix and Dans in Firenze

Vicki and Danya stopped by Florence on their travels and we spent a rainy day together. It was so nice to see friends from Boston. We had such a good time, we got drunk at dinner and spent about 3 hours eating, I missed my train and slept on the floor. Our umbrellas looked very nice together. we hugged for a long time when we saw eachother, it had been a while.

Miss Danya spent a semester abroad in Niger. We hadn't seen eachother since December.
Vix was in Londond studying at LAMDA
While there, she leaned to do this.

It was a bit rainy for part of the day. Danya kept stopping to take pictures. We hid out in the train station when it started pouring, lots of flooded basements that night.

Their hotel boasted a 360 degree view of the city. It was the best part of the place.

lost of time, lots of things

My parents came and visited in May when the semester ended. We went to Rome and ate some really good food. We had a group of waiters who were reallt slick, they had this whole shtick where they bring a customer espresso and then pretend to accidentally spill it on them. There is a special way of rigging the sup to accomplish this. It is so fun to watch the people's faces.

Yeah.

He likes it.

Absence makes the heart grow weak

So I've been going through some bouts of home sickness lately. Even though staying here in Tuscany for the summer is amazing, and there is alot of cool stuff going on, I miss everyone from home. I am so bad at keeping in touch with people, so if you give me your address I will most definately send you a postcard, trinket, or some such pleasantry. Here is my address in case you were wondering:

Accademia Dell'Arte
Villa Godiola
San Fabiano 9
52100 Arezzo, Italy

photos by Linds