Well it has been quite a long while with no updates, and this is mainly due to 1) a lack of interest in writing 2) an excess of writing my novel, poetry, and three 5-page papers and one 10-page paper for my classes. I am still in Italy, and will continue updating the blog, I have some older pictures I did not upload yet that I will soon. A big update will come tomorrow with a large update of everything that has happened since mid-february, spring break, and the f...

Quick update with my mailing address, this is the ONLY address that I can successfully receive any mail/packages/etc at. Thanks! Brandon Kingc/o The Institute at Palazzo RucellaiVia della Vigna Nuova 1850123 FlorenceItaly

Well this is a much delayed blog entry, and will probably be a short one, I'll add much longer information to the photos I upload from Chianti and Pisa/Lucca. Right now I'm feeling under the weather with a sinus infection, but hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. I'll be satisfied with waiting until saturday to feel better, when my friends and I go to Venice for the first day of Carnival. Well back to last week, my classes have been going really well and the pr...

Ciao everyone, finally get around to uploading pictures and blogging again! Been a few crazy days so far, but now I have pictures to prove just how much fun it has been so far. Spent today in Siena and San Gimignano, both incredibly gorgeous places. We went with a pretty big group of 40 or so students on a bus, and it was only $50 for tickets and tours and everything. Marcello, the Medici family professor, was our guide and he was both funny and extremely inform...

Well I failed to write a blog entry every day so far, and thats simply because I have been so busy recently. Classes began Monday and my schedule is pretty agreeable, just that Tuesdays are tough. Mondays/Wednesdays I have an English class called Shifting Identities: Society and Individualism in Renaissance Florence which is very interesting, we are reading Visari's Lives of the Artists as well as Boccaccio's Decameron. The class focuses on the changing idealo...