A starving artist

Andie and I went to bed before the rest of my roomies got back. I suppose this was a mistake. I had a rude awakening this morning when Jackie woke me with the words, 'We have 15 minutes to make the train.' I panicking for a moment and started gathering clothes. We decided that we would in fact take the later train, but because the later train was full, we put off the trip until tommorrow. So I will be waking up at 5 in the morning, then sleeping on the train. Anyway, since we were awake early in the morning, we decided to go to the large indoor market accross the plaza from our apartment. There was so much food in there, and as I was very glad to see, so much meat. The display cases were filled with large cuts of beef, chicken, fish, and rabbit. I was a little disturbed that tripe looks oddly like carpeting, but I hear it is actually pretty good, other than the oddity of the texture. The market was filled with so many different kinds of cheese, so we bought some brie, as it is the cheapest for our lunch and dinner. We also bought veggies and fresh made ravioli for dinner. We ate our salami sandwich lunch on the steps of the Church of St. Croce. This cathedral, that I have never heard of houses the tombs of several influential names from our past. Michealangelo rests here, accross the way from Da Vinci and Nicholai Machiavelli. When we were finished with our sketches we brought our things home and went to the bazaar near our place to get some little things for our people at home. I also bought a tshirt.

Kelly met up with us later and we walked to the best gelato place in town where i got a cup of rice gelato with chocolate orange and cream with choco chips. It was delicious. I also splurged a little on myself. Since this is a place of leather and artistry, Kelly knew of a little shop that makes leather sketchbooks. As my book currently is already half full, 1/3 into the trip, I am having one made. It is shaped to my liking and will have my initials embossed. The neat thing is, that it will not cost any more for the custom making, or for the lettering. The woman also gave me a student discount of 10 euro. The total price of a cutom leather book will be less than the price of two moleskeens, which are smaller and too popular for my taste. So, yes Im sorry, but the aroma of leather seduced me.

There are too many good artists here. Its about 6 euro for a good potrait.