Ciao!
This week was incredibly busy with work and sending off one of my friends who returned to Canada. I wrote my first appeal reply brief for the UN Dispute Tribunal. It was quite a feat to accomplish--40 depositions, 7 binders of background facts, 2 attorneys and 25 pages later, I think we wrote a winning brief haha.
Also, my friend Joelle was leaving and wanted to go out with a bang her last week. So, we experienced Rome's finest dinners, drinks, gelato, biscotti and all the things that you grow to love when living here! It was tiring, but great fun. I also started tutoring an Italian girl in English (a daughter of a work friend's friend)--so far it has been mildly entertaining. It really made me reflect on sayings that don't translate (see e.g the blank stare I got from the girl when I said the phrase "blank stare" haha) and that I speak incredibly fast apparently...
This weekend I tried to take it easy because I have another busy week and then am going to Paris next weekend! On Saturday, I went to my yoga instructor friend's ashtanga class, drank some caffe, found the Intermezzo of Rome (!!!!) and experienced the chaos of Trastevere at night in warm weather! Today was the Rome Marathon so the city was even more chaotic than normal. I escaped the crowds and went to the MAXXI museum, a museum focused on modern art and architecture, with a friend. It was a really cool museum, including my favorite painting of the day a GIANT canvas of pink glitter which took up practically an entire wall...if I knew how to ask in Italian, I would have inquired where I could buy it!
My friend and I were walking around the museum chatting when all of the sudden one of the curators basically tackled us. We had unknowingly wandered onto and were walking through sand installations that were sporadically, and without warning, placed around the floor...oops. While we were embarrassed to have wreaked havoc on the MAXXI, it was pretty pretty funny. Plus, now our shoe prints are part of the art :-)
ciaociao!
This week was incredibly busy with work and sending off one of my friends who returned to Canada. I wrote my first appeal reply brief for the UN Dispute Tribunal. It was quite a feat to accomplish--40 depositions, 7 binders of background facts, 2 attorneys and 25 pages later, I think we wrote a winning brief haha.
Also, my friend Joelle was leaving and wanted to go out with a bang her last week. So, we experienced Rome's finest dinners, drinks, gelato, biscotti and all the things that you grow to love when living here! It was tiring, but great fun. I also started tutoring an Italian girl in English (a daughter of a work friend's friend)--so far it has been mildly entertaining. It really made me reflect on sayings that don't translate (see e.g the blank stare I got from the girl when I said the phrase "blank stare" haha) and that I speak incredibly fast apparently...
This weekend I tried to take it easy because I have another busy week and then am going to Paris next weekend! On Saturday, I went to my yoga instructor friend's ashtanga class, drank some caffe, found the Intermezzo of Rome (!!!!) and experienced the chaos of Trastevere at night in warm weather! Today was the Rome Marathon so the city was even more chaotic than normal. I escaped the crowds and went to the MAXXI museum, a museum focused on modern art and architecture, with a friend. It was a really cool museum, including my favorite painting of the day a GIANT canvas of pink glitter which took up practically an entire wall...if I knew how to ask in Italian, I would have inquired where I could buy it!
My friend and I were walking around the museum chatting when all of the sudden one of the curators basically tackled us. We had unknowingly wandered onto and were walking through sand installations that were sporadically, and without warning, placed around the floor...oops. While we were embarrassed to have wreaked havoc on the MAXXI, it was pretty pretty funny. Plus, now our shoe prints are part of the art :-)
ciaociao!
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| The white building at the end of the street, Chiodi di Bramante, is where my friend's yoga studio is! Amazingly beautiful, huh? |
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| The yoga studio is in such a beautiful building and the space is amazing! We both took a moment to just realize how lucky were are to be in Rome--doing Yoga in a historic building, in the center overlooking Piazza Navano... |
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| Signs of spring! |
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| One of my favorite hidden fountains--it is always deserted and quiet in this square. |
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| The MAXXI museum--very cool building. |
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