First Full Day At The Villa

So today was my first full day in Fiesole. I woke up as charmed as I was when I went to sleep.

I woke up many times throughout the morning, but got out of bed at 830am. the view was just as good as I remembered. :-) I went down to breakfast, and then off to class at about 945. We had an introduction to the course and to international law, and then we had a break for lunch. Lunch is the main meal here, and it was two courses of goodness. If anyone was worried about me eating, don't. It was delicious and I ate more than I should have. After lunch we had more class until 3, followed by a free afternoon. Lee Catherine (who arrived during luch today), Andrew, Pat (who we met on the plane yesterday) and Aaron (who is from Indiana) and I went up to the city center to check it out. and when I say "up," I really mean up. It is up a realllllly steep hill. I think I worked off the gelato I ate there, as well as my lunch from earlier in the day. It was that steep. The city is quaint, kind of reminding me of Siena a bit. Siena is a bit more Medieval, but Fiesole was cute and charming.

So something I learned today, since I am here for school and all, has to do with international law (big surprise, i know). In the Constitution of the United States, there is a "supremacy" clause, which basically states that treaties and statutes are the supreme law of the land. In other words, though many people don't believe in international law, treaties are one of the main sources of international law and they are held on equal ground with statutes that are created by our own legislature. I don't know why I never knew that, but I didn't. So, now everyone (who didn't know that before) knows.

We have dinner in about an hour, so I am going to work on catching up with the news from the States until then, and work on some reading after dinner. So until tomorrow, ciao!

(and ps...I took pictures of my room and will probably be loading them tomorrow after our tour of Florence when I have more pictures to add)