Ciao! Well I'm sure it's no surprise to hear that I'm having an amazing time still. Yesterday I began my main photographic project for my stay here. A photo teacher here hooked me up with a local wine and food cafe that he has been going to for a few years. So it's been two days of hanging out in there with real Italian locals and having to accept wine when they buy it for me. It's been very interesting to see how the people socialize, eat and drink; I've been sitting in the place for about three hours a day and photographing every now and then. So below are a few photos from the cafe and it's employees. I'll be going in there for the next three weeks so it will be very interesting to see what kind of things I learn and what the photos will reveal. And also on a side note, this cafe is very very small so I don't move hardly at all for all these photos, I just looked around and used a variety of lenses to get these shots.

Ciao. I can't believe I'm working on my third week of being over here. I have to admit that I'm not going to be ready to come back in three weeks or so. Though before I do I am planning to go to Venice, Rome, and either London or Greece. These photos are out of order and random but that's how life has been since i got here. The photo above and below are from a museum that I was at with Art history and I couldn't go up with the class to a belltower so i sat with a bunch of statues with these goofy expressions. it was fun so I thought i would try imitating their expressions... yes i'm a dork i know. The sequence of photos below me are from an area that used to be an mental health facility (insane asylum) that closed in the 60s and now a bunch of squatters (homeless) chill in all the buildings. I went with the photo class and shot for a few hours... and stalked the little old lady and other locals. The last is Aura sketchin' at the park yesterday.