EASTER

Happy Easter! Since the Catholic Church has such as big religious and political influence in Italy, the non-religious folks, like me, get to benefit from the extra days off. This weekend we have a long four day break because there is no school on Good Friday and we get Monday off as well. Thank you Jesus! Next week we will be heading to Paris for a week with one of our professors and the following week is our Spring Break, so I decided to stay home this weekend to save some money. Unfortunately as every day goes by the U.S. dollar keeps getting worse- meaning that my money doesn’t go as far as it used to when I first got here.

This weekend Como has been packed with thousands of people shopping and cruising the streets on their long weekend. Even with the poor weather, people still come flooding into the city—I cannot even imagine how crowded this city will be come summer time! Good thing I will be gone by then…

I have spent all of my time this weekend getting caught up on my blog and working on my studio design project. We have Midterm presentations on Friday and I know this week is going to go by fast with the extra day off on Monday and my birthday celebration on Tuesday.

Sorry for the delay on updating my blog, but now that I am caught up I wont have any trouble staying up-to-date. Stay tuned loyal readers. I would like to hear from those of you who are reading my blog, so feel free to send me an email [rhart@usc.edu] and give me an update from the United States.