June 9th: Getting started

It looks like our (instumentalists') weekday schedule is as follows:

8:50-12:35: Italian class

1:00-5:00: ensemble practice and coachings

6:00-8:00: chamber orchestra

Of course this will change when the opera gets going in a few weeks.... but for now, everything's pretty flexible. Except the seven hours of Italian in the morning. That's rough.

I took the written test for placement into a language class, and ended up right on the border between 102 and 201. This is not surprising. I did take 101-102 this year at Oberlin, but the last half of the last semester I struggled. The teacher was very kind, and said that I could go wherever I felt most comfortable. For now, I'll stick with 102 to brush up on the things I missed last semester. If it goes too slow, I'll move up -- we have a week in which to do so, and all the classes are pretty loosely organized.

Oh, and by the way, the teachers "aren't allowed" to give us homework. We're all pretty psyched about this.

I heard along the grapevine that we're taking a field trip to Florence this weekend.

More later,
-Al