Friday morning we all looked like zombies. We were tired and hot, and news of the shootings back home didn’t help.
Our class session in the morning was only a few hours. Then we were basically let free for the weekend. Many people left town right away, but I’m sticking around, basically.
I spent a good amount of the afternoon working on one of our final projects. It’s a linguistic landscape presentation. Basically, we need to take lots of pictures of the signs around town, and then code them in such a way that we can present our findings. For example, my partner and I have been taking photos all week, so we started looking at how many signs around town are just in Italian, how many are in English and Italian, and how many are in three or more languages.
We’re also looking at what might influence which language is written on top, which is written in bigger font, and which signs need images with them.
In the evening, my partner and I took the long bus ride into town for dinner at a cute place near my Italian language school. We had a good meal for a cheap price. Then I took a walk across Ponte Sant’Angelo to get to the bus stop I needed. You can see video of my walk across the bridge on Facebook.
Tomorrow is a special day trip. I’m navigating on my own, so wish me travel mercies!
