I started my Thursday with a wonderfully long and beautiful walk, once again exploring more of my surrounding Cortona environment. It was a little scary at the end, because all of a sudden, the sky looked extremely threatening as if it was about to downpour, and I was completely unprepared for any sort of rain. Luckily I beat the storm by a few milliseconds. Painting was exciting that afternoon. I completely turned my canvas around and starting painting different images from my self-portrait photo shoot on top of my original painting around the canvas, creating a juxtaposition of various angles of myself, my legs, and my face in unexpected color palettes. I am getting more and more excited about this huge painting. After dinner that night, some girls and I decided we needed something sweet, so we went to a local café to nosh on some dessert and hang out. This café had more than twenty different types of hot chocolate, so I decided to order some white hot chocolate. Even though it came in one of the tiniest mugs, I could barely finish it because it was so rich! If I did not watch them make it, I would have thought they simply melted a white chocolate candy bar into my mug! Needless to say, it hit the spot.
Friday (my second Shabbat in Cortona with no challah) was another extremely long day, complete with my eight hours of class. I was slightly upset because I slept in that morning, so I had no time to go on a run. (And I have been having the WEIRDEST dreams ever these past few nights…I do not know what it is about sleeping in a monastery that is seriously affecting my sleeping cycles). Art ed was exciting. We are getting down to business planning each of our lessons and making teaching exemplars to prepare for our quickly approaching days of teaching. As I said before, our overall theme for the third grade is community. My partner and I decided to create art projects based off of the idea of exploring one’s role within the community, discussing rules of the community, and from their, discussing how one can make their community a better place through the acts of kindness and good deeds. For our final project, we are going to have the third graders pick a good deed to be their “super power” and they are going to make themselves into superheroes (life-size superhero self-portraits), making a difference in their community. In paper/book making, we are finally starting to make books! Today, we learned how to cut down large pieces of paper into the signatures and folios that make up a book. As of now, it takes me a LONG time to get this down. Most people in class finished all their paper, and I only cut down half of what I need for my first book. Either way, I am excited to finally be putting together books from scratch. I can only imagine how satisfying it will be to have homemade books to sketch in! At dinner that night, we had the most fancy and decadent dessert that we have had so far. It may have even topped my white hot chocolate from the night before. Dessert was a white vanilla panecotta that was served in a little glass jar. Panecotta is sort of like sweet cream in almost a jello-like form. It sounds gross, but it was actually heavenly. There was also some vanilla cream, more like pudding, in a small waffle cone. Together, the two little desserts were amazing, and I am not usually one to rave about creamy things. It was a lovely way to end my long and tiresome Friday.
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