I'm Melting

Monday, June 9th

Last night I didn't blog because—drumroll—I was tired. Like always. But it was actually a pretty fun day!

In the morning I had my internship, and I didn't have anything to do again. So the other two girls and I took initiative and went to explore the museum for the second time since we've been there. This time we took time to read labels and look in different rooms that we missed last time. It was fun to go slowly and look at everything, but the most fun was going down into the archeological section and going through the excavated rooms and corridors.

Don't know if you can tell, but those are bones.
This is one of the mass graves from the Black Plague
(remember the museum used to be a hospital)

After that we sat for a while and drew random pictures until it was one o'clock and we could leave. Then after that, not much happened during the day. I went to the grocery store and all the chocolate bars in the store were melted, because—did I mention?—it's really really hot here. REALLY. The real-feel temperature is between 96 and 98 degrees. Apparently that it very unusual for Italy in June. Awesome. But hey, I am in Italy so there really isn't much I can complain about. So anyway I didn't get a chocolate bar.

Mostly everyone has been staying inside, either at the school or in their houses, to avoid the heat so we haven't been doing much as a group lately. However, last night we had a surprise birthday party for Rebeca, a girl in our group, which was really fun. We had Italian cake and some Sicilian sodas on the steps of Siena's Duomo—a successful Italian party, I'd say. It was really fun to all be together again and just hang out in the city.


Tuesday, June 10th 

Today has been much of the same. Actually, at my internship we were given a task! Edit a guidebook for the museum that was translated from Italian into English. The English translation is really poor, but luckily I actually enjoy editing. And I got work to do! Hooray! We spent about an hour and a half editing two pages and the book is pretty long, so we should be busy for a while.

That's about all for the past couple days. The biggest aspect of my day is doing my best to stay cool while also trying to see as much of Siena as I can before I leave (in less than two weeks . . . noooo). In the meantime I'm working with Shauna to plan what we'll do in Venice! Woot woot!

Ciao ciao!