Ciao Ragazzi!

This is officially my study month.

I am going to Rome tomorrow for a Spanish Baroque Dance Workshop with Ana Yepes (with castanets! and fans!). I'll be staying with a couple from Jeremy's NYC lab-- the other night we were figuring out how many different cities in Europe we could visit, imposing ourselves on Jeremy's old lab mates (Istanbul, Geneva, Basel...). Scientists move around a lot! I am so looking forward to seeing the sculptures and painting, drinking espresso, and EATING! Oooh, I miss Italian food.



And then, in the middle of March, I am hopping up to Stockholm for a class in the Baroque Grotesque (exaggerated, commedia dell'arte) style at the University of Stockholm. I found out about it last weekend, and had to work like a madman to get into the class-- which is free! They don't pay for university in Sweden (they do now in Germany, poor guys. But not nearly as much as we have to pay in America), and they even extend the kindess to foreigners like me. I am staying for free in the apartment of my friend in Stockholm's mother. Yipee! Bring on the herring!