The first day in Siena was a whirlwind, but it has gotten me really excited to be here. I just wanted to share a few photos so you guys could see where I will be going to school and where I will be living.
The AHA center is INCREDIBLE. The building that it is in used to be a house for a noble family of Siena, and we get to go to school on the floor where the family used to reside. The next floor up is where the servants used to live, and the first floor is where they kept their horses. Check it out:
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| AHA Library, formally the master bedroom |
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| Ceiling in the library |
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| Front desk at AHA Headquarters |
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| Hallway in AHA Office |
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Classroom. We won't be needing that many chairs, since there are only three people in my program.
It's going to be so strange coming from OSU, where class sizes are so big, but I plan on learning a lot! |
Next, we got to see where we will be living the next few months. It is a great little apartment right in the heart of downtown Siena and very close to the AHA office. Here are a few pictures:
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| Door to the apartment |
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| My bed |
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| Steps to the porch |
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| Porch window |
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| View from the porch |
We also went on a practical tour of Siena, where our site director, Silvia, showed us the ins and outs of the city. I'll share a few snapshots, but we are learning more tomorrow in a more academic tour of Siena!
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| Pizza place, where our site director, Silvia, bought us a (square) piece of pizza |
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I got ham and cheese, which had crust on top and on bottom.
Twice the bread = twice the deliciousness! |
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| Beautiful alley we walked down |
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| The clock tower in the Piazza del Campo |
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Gelato place where our professor, Jeff, bought us gelato.
I got a lot of free food today:) Jeff and his wife Chris are visiting
Siena from Eugene, where he is a professor at U of O |
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| Duomo, Siena's amazing cathedral |
Tomorrow, we are getting a formal tour of the city. I'm excited to learn more about its official history, but learning where the best gelato place is was important to know too! :) It's been a great day, and I'm excited for an amazing term.
Ben liked the ham and cheese pizza idea (no tomato sauce! Yay!)! Siena looks awesome! We especially liked your porch because you get to crawl through a window to get there! Which is pretty cool, so sayeth Ben.
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