Last week at La Romita!

We only have one more week at La Romita, and then we leave for Rome! I am very excited to visit Rome because it is the city that I have been wanting to visit the most from the beginning. Even though I am really excited for Rome, I am sad to leave Terni on Saturday this week. We all have been fairly productive while we have been here, and this week is going to be very busy while we try to finish(or start) projects. Yesterday, four of us students went to church with Marilynn and Scott to experience a Catholic service here in Italian. I am Catholic, so I could follow along with the service just like I do at home, even though I couldn't really understand what the priest was saying...haha. Most of the church service was conducted the same way as my church at home besides different little things, as well as the communion part of mass at the end. After church, we came back to La Romita for the day. I worked some on a painting, and then painted my tootsies and Claire's and Tori's outside in the sun. Yesterday afternoon we visited the largest waterfall in Europe. We all took a hike to the top of the waterfall. We had some ice cream at the top of the hill and took some beautiful pictures. On the way down the hill, Tori, Jamie, and I all walked through a cave tunnel to see the waterfall up close. We all got soaked when we got to the other side of the tunnel because it was almost underneath the waterfall. Last night we had dinner and worked on art in the studio, then went to bed. Today we finally got to see a body of water when we went to the ocean and a lake. We all got a little too much sun and look like bruchetta tomatoes..hehe. Later we came back to La Romita for dinner and now we are finishing up some work for our critique tomorrow in the studio.
*Here's me painting by the lake today...suprise! I was working!
*This picture is the view from the hill next to the waterfall
*Jamie, Tori, and I on the bus ride to Terni the other night