closure.

so i'm back in america now. adjusting to life. everything is pretty natural and yet strange at the same time. it's good to be around family and friends again. we ran into some trouble coming home and ended up getting stuck in chicago. i had to stay the night there and my parents came and picked up andrea, linds and i. otherwise i wouldn't have gotten a flight home until christmas day, things were crazy there. here are some pics from our final week in rome/paris. merry Christmas!!

this was a man's home we walked by all the time. he sold his paintings on the steps of a church a few feet away.

this is where we found our favourite gelato. biscotti della nonna. mmmmm mmmm mmmm

ivana! she's our friend who was studying in rome, but lived in vienna and was from macedonia. she was great.


PARIS:
rodin museum

linds and andrea at the paris train station


hot wine!

scott was pretty tired at the restaurant

we rode the carousel at the eiffel tower!

we take lots of pictures.

figuring out the metro tickets and making lots and lots of people wait.

versailles palace

versailles

versailles

going home to rome from paris.

end of school schtuff

our list of things to do hanging on our wall.

the mess-up wall.

our exhibition schtuff

my schutff

our books we made. it's like kindergarten pics or something.

goodbye studio...goodbye roma...

paris

paris was amazing. i will recap on everything in a few days. i have wonderful pictures and updates, just not the time to get to it all. see ya on friday!

wrap it up.

we did it. had our rome show last night. we were so exhausted. after the show we all headed over to the guys place. we were so tired we figured it was about 1am but really it was only 9. we made sure that no one set their alarms in our flat so we could catch up on all our lost sleep. so far we've slept in today and will head to the matisse exhibit shortly. we leave for paris at 4am tomororw! yikes. and then will be back tuesday evening to pack up and get out of here.

a few pics from our night...



hookah time



zak was a little sleepy so we decided to do a little more design work.



i like my friends

it's overrrrrrrrrrr!!!

i am officially done with my projects. they are printed and i am done thinking about them. i am so excited to put my life back in order, everything has been spiraling out of control. i am wearing a pair of socks for the fourth day in a row now, i think my jeans are on day three and i haven't washed my hair since monday. hahaha. our apartment has been a disaster with paper covering the floor, glue and tape everywhere, our mess-up projects taped to the wall next to our checklist of projects to get done.

i am very impressed with my roommates/best friends. andrea is in the process of making an illuminated manuscript. for those who are unfamiliar with this; think very very old books that were hand written in scripty caligraphy, tiny animals and doodles adorning the pages, with large colourful dropcaps. ya, she's pretty much amazing. the teachers gave her an extension because they knew it was too much to do in 3 days, but andrea is our little scribe who won't stop working and she'll have it done for tomorrow.

lindsey on the other hand made a children's book. wrote the story, hand drew all the illustrations and then watercoloured it all. she finished today and it is amazing as well.

tomorrow (friday) is our final exhibition. we'll set up our projects from the semester, along with interior design and fine arts and have food and wine. we've invited people to walk through and see our stuff.

after friday i'll finally have a life again and free time to see the last sites of rome. i should have lots of fun things to post, as well as our mini trip to paris. i fly out 22 december and i can hardly wait. i think i will be torn as i leave so many things i've grown accustomed to.

one thing i will not miss in rome....the men. my roommate elisa actually punched a man, in the face, on the bus the other night after some drunk italians were harassing her. when she got home her hand was bleeding. my roommates are amazing.

functional fixedness

you know you are desperate when you eat bran and yogurt with a bone folder.

packaging

little update. went to the doctor because my itching was out of control. first of all, try to avoid foreign hospitals as much as possible. the doctor was a little sketchy and at the end he tells me i owe him 50 euro in cash. so i hand him the bill and he takes out his money clip and sticks it in with his wad of cash back into his pocket. hmmmmm seems a little fishy, but what are you gonna do i suppose.

so here are some pics of us working hard in our mess of a studio. and here are my final packages, which caused my allergic itching reaction. please pray that we make it through this last week.

inSANEEEEEE

there are pictures from this weekend.

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that'd be us, locked in our apartment, over the weekend, trying to stay sane.

stay kool in school

so i wish i had recent pictures to post. but my life has been consisting of projects and more projects and lots more projects. studio hours have now been extended until 3am. great. i shall be using them. i won't go into detail how much we have to do, otherwise i may start crying, but for the most part we are trying to stay sane and have fun in the process. i am almost done with one project (packaging). i don't like to think about folding paper in 3D, so to skirt around this issue i decided to build my packages out of a thick matboard that i would layer on top of each other. so i've cut over 50 pieces of board that i've been sanding and gluing together. i've contracted some type of allergic reaction and i'm starting to break out in small bumps all over my body that won't stop itching. the pain we go through for school! i would write about what i did this weekend but i think it's pretty obvious that i spent almost every waking minute cutting board. Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. on a positive note, we bought tickets to paris! school ends december 15 so we are going to enjoy freedom from homework with a smll trip to paris. yay.