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had the best site visit ever today. I havent really talked about all my site visits this semester because it reached a point where I realized I was going to have a ton of them, and couldnt possibly talk about all of them. plus, some of them were not very exciting.

but today we went to a silk weaving factory outside of florence. They do traditional hand-woven textiles, with original (/restored) looms. they explained how they worked and we got to see a whole bunch of different types being made. it was really neat. is it bad that ive never really thought about how velvet is/was made before today?? anyway, they were very beautiful. we got to see some interesting designs their students made too. it was a ton of fun. and also very relevant considering how important silk was to florence in the 1400s.

my fam and gender prof told a few of us on the bus back to florence that until 1981, there was a law that made it legal for men to kill their sisters, daughters, or wives if they were acting "dishonorably" (committing adultery, acting impurely, etc). until 1981. she said it even surprised her because she was in school then and thought it had already been abolished. ...but, i thought that was really weird.

crunch time is upon us, my friends. i have three weekends left, one to be spent in paris. probably a day trip here or there to a couple places around italy (thinking about siena, san gimignano, and chianti). also HP7 on wednesday and matthew bourne's swan lake the last day of classes. but here's whats upcoming work-wise so you can pity me:

-fascism extra paper (five pages)

-fam and gender paper (ten pages)

-italian quizzes/orals/tasks: i believe three more.

-two books for fascism

-two problem sets for money and banking

-lots of chapters to catch up in money and banking

-countless articles for fam and gender

-final exam in fascism: it's two days long, omg

-final exam in money and banking: cumulative, bleh

-final exam italian: oral and written, two days long

-12 more reviews and 4 more blogs for RG, so sad.

don't pity me because it's a lot of work. pity me because i have four weeks left in italy (less than, gahhh) and will be spending the majority of it doing all that. :( haha, ntm, getting ready to go home, which the idea of is terrifying (my room kinda looks like i've lived here for years). And seeing a few last things in Firenze.

I just saw a mosquito the size of my pinky.

time for scuola.

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