Yesterday was a bit slow since it was The Festival of the Epiphany (or the Italian equivalent to the Three Kings Day celebrated in hispanic countries). I had never heard of this holiday before, but our professor explained that it is analogous to the American Christmas except, rather than Santa, a "good witch" known as La Befana puts gifts and candy in children's stockings. Now it makes sense to me why I saw what I thought were leftover Halloween decorations everywhere.
Our class is very small (literally only my brother, myself and one other student), so we have to be on our toes. We're reading Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli and others. Our professor is really friendly and entertaining and uses a lot of photographs, videos and maps in her lectures, which keeps things interesting.
Since we had no class yesterday, my brother and I had planned to visit Vatican City, but that didn't work out since the museum is closed on holidays. Hopefully we can figure out a way to go during the week. Yesterday we took the opportunity to explore the historical section of Tuscania. Photos from that soon. Oh, and the artist Johannes Dimpflmeier is centered here. He does beautiful work with robots.
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