random thoughts of the day

Today I was suppose to go to the beach, but I felt a little under the weather when I woke up, so I figured I should keep sleeping.

So when I got up I did some cleaning around the house and headed into the center, to go to SACI’s library and read up on some Art Conservation and learn more chemistry. Buuuuut the library was closed. So I went to this fancy Italian wedding dress store instead. It was so fancy that you had to ring the door bell, and the lady would let you in. Of ourse you had to make an appointment, but when I said my wedding was in august, she said that I would want to wait for the new stuff to come in, in november. Oh well.
I had intended to read until mass at 5, but I still had 3 hours after that…..so I went museum hopping. I saw the Bronze David by donetello, though they are doing restoration on it. There was a really interesting guest book that all the visitors signed in the david room. There were so many languages in it! A lot of people were really sad that it was under restoration when they went to visit it. But I thought it was such a treat!!!!!!! He is laying down, and there are tons of machines all around. Supposedly during the days you can watch them, but I usually work so I dont think I can do that. But I of course signed the guest book, in Italian, though Im sure it had grammatical errors.

But I noticed two things today. When you press the button for the crosswalk here (not in the center, but outside the center) they light immediate turns to yellow for the cars.

Also there is a distinct black culture here. There are alot of immigrants from africa here, and they either know each other, or always nod or wave or shake hands when they pass each other.

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