Sei brava!

Not a whole lot going on right now. I've had class as usual for the past week. Midterms are coming up, got an Italian test and a paper on monday. I've also been doing a little bit of painting. Open figure drawing yesterday was long poses, so I brought down my paints. It was really nice, good to feel in practice again.

I went the day before yesterday to a showing of Dr. Strangelove. I'd seen it, but a long time ago. Palazzo dei Esposizioni is having a Kubrick show, and every night they play a movie. It's mostly Americans that go, but it's nice. They also are having a Rothko show, which I went to today against my will. I ended up really enjoying it though, in spite of myself. I never thought I liked Rothko but the paintings obviously are very different in photographs.

Yesterday I went over to Sant'Ignazio - I don't know if this is the same place Nana was telling me about, but it was beautiful anyway. It was really huge and ornate, but kind of hidden away so it was really empty. I sat there for a little while sewing and a little old lady came up and touched my face and said "OH sei brava!" and a whole bunch of other stuff I couldn't udnerstand. It was really cute.



Translation: Sei Brava = You're good! (well behaved, etc)