As most of you already know (and the rest of you have by now figured out), I am about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime - studying abroad for about 3 1/2 months in Orvieto, Italy. I will be living in a monastery owned by Gordon College and studying Italian, Renaissance History, and Literature, while taking in a completely new culture with 23 other students. I’ve made this website to share my adventures with those who would like to read about them.
Here’s the basic info straight from the school’s website:
Gordon In Orvieto
VISION
The Gordon-in-Orvieto semester program takes an experimental approach to learning in the landscape of our contemporary post-culture. The intent of the program is to foster in our students an attitude of responsive looking and listening for signs of new life in the traditions inhabited by artists and poets, saints and mystics, of the past, especially those of pre-modern Europe in Italy. With a discerning eye neither nostalgic nor ironic, we wish to explore the disintegrated fragments of the classical-Christian civilization of the West, raiding the past in order to rebuild the present. For a brief, interactive tour covering the program location and its missions, please visit the Gordon In Orvieto Tour page.
http://www.gordon.edu/page.cfm?iPageID=611&iCategoryID=59&Global_Education&Gordon_In_Orvieto
**All of these pictures are taken from the internet and will be replaced once I’ve been able to take some of my own
Calcio!!
Most of you probably looked at the title and thought to yourself what is this calcio? Well, never fear! I am here to bring you up to date on all important words in Italian. Calcio is the word for the all-important Italian sport: soccer.
Ah, yes, soccer. The universal sport that is beloved in every country...well, some more than others, I suppose. It is most definitely loved here in Italia where everyone knows who to root for: whatever Italian team is playing, naturally, but if two Italian teams are playing, then you root for the team that is closest to where you live now or where you were born. For instance, I live about 60 miles north of Rome, making it inevitable that I should root for Roma over Milan when they play. This is a very serious thing.
But, I didn't start this blog to tell you about professional calcio. Oh no, I did this to tell you about a far more interesting kind of calcio - American students soccer games! A group of us gets together on Thursdays to go play soccer at a local field. Oh yes! It's amazing! The field is tiny, astroturf, and covered in sand, but it's a soccer field and we can play on it. It's right next to the edge of the cliff, so there's a net (well, the remnants of a net anyway) that helps keep the ball in.
And we play soccer. Or perhaps more accurately, for an hour we run around, yelling things in English, kicking the ball far too hard for the small size of the field, laughing, sweating, and generally having a wonderful time. I'm sure that any Italians watching us are laughing (the man who rents us the field sure does), but it doesn't even matter. I mean, we're in Italy playing soccer.
Who would turn down an opportunity like this?
2 commenti:
make sure to take pictures if you sit out. I would love to see the field.
lol! just wait till you are stuck in a huge crowd celebrating victory during the "football" season. i was trapped in the second story of a restaurant in france for hours! europe loves football! i think i like your experience better.
miss you!
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