Archive discovery

I am working on a lesson plan to teach art lessons to a small class of third graders this summer. We'll spend a few sessions doing photography so I was scanning through picassa and stumbled upon these pictures that were long lost in some old journaling folder from college.I'm not in the pick, but here is part of my Archi class in Florence, Italy. I thought Val would find this fun.

This is us chicas on our way out of Rome. We stopped to throw our coins into Trevi Fountain. Yes, we lived around the corner for 3 months and never did it until the final day. But it was early and there were no tourists! so we got to be in front of the fountain!

Living in Rome was wonderful, but studio could be mind numbing and challenging. We found a postcard of Naxos, the Greek island we were going to spend our final days in Europe and posted it by our desks. When we needed a break we would clang the lamp and yell, 'Naxos' and just enjoy the thought of us on an island with nothing to do! This is a picture taken on the island.

Ok, this is one of my favorite stories. Before leaving the USA Mere and Timmy got international drivers licenses. We never used it on the continent with public transit being so abundant, but here on Naxos we needed adventure. Meredith rented a tiny little jeep for us to go exploring.

This was a classic Visa moment. Here we were on this little back road when we stumble upon these goats. $5000 a semester in Rome, $80 to rent a jeep, 4 girls stuck in a jeep behind a goat herder, priceless!