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

giovedì 22 ottobre 2009

The day I wore black and read things

...and that day would be today. We have yet again come to a close on another class here in Orvieto. Today marks our halfway point: 2 finished, 2 still to come. To celebrate all the work we put into this class, we are having a poetry reading this afternoon for our whole group. After our reading, we'll all go downstairs and see the art class's final drawings in a gallery opening. Then, at 6, some of our Italian friends have been invited to come see the art work and here us read our poems that we wrote about their drawings. Here is mine:



Drawing by Katy

Feathers
Danielle Willard


Stark white of silence
    undone
as shadows of thoughts
circle in my mind
         floating
to stir senses and drift
into words. Feathers
dance lightly through
the air,
                swirling
hopes yet unspoken
in my mouth
until
as voice emerges
    they settle
on the ground.


I'm in the process of translating it, so this is what it looks like so far:

Le Piume


Il silenzio bianco e severo
è rotto
mentre le ombre dei pensieri
cerchiano del mio mente
galleggiante
a svegliare i sensi e creare
le parole. Le piume
danzano alla leggera attraverso a
l'aria; le speranze
vorticose
sinora indicibile
in la mia bocca
fino a
quando la voce emerge
toccano
al suolo.

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1 commento:

napsugar ha detto...

Dani!
I love reading your blog.
Living vicariously through you;)

28 ottobre 2009 alle ore 02:45

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