Getting settled

I've moved into my room with 3 other roommates, we have a door that opens out to a terrace, where we can also hang out laundry so that's convenient. Today we had short classes to go over the syllabus for each class. It looks like I'll be pretty busy. Drawing and painting are pretty much independent study classes so we come up with our idea for the semester. I'm considering plants for painting because I went to this da Vinci invention exhibit in Florence and in a video that was showing, it showed a painting that I had just seen a little while earlier that he painted with his teacher. It pointed out how da Vinci had studied plants and landscapes, and that's why his landscapes fade into the background naturally while his teacher had painted some palm tree that didn't really fit the space or the landscape. I always thought da Vinci's trees were weird but that's just because they don't exist in the states, but I've seen them here! For my drawing class our first assignment is a self portrait in Italy, whatever that means to you, so open ended! I have a potentially really good idea for that but it will take lots of practice for the background part and it's due Tuesday so I might change my mind about that.
There's a Nutella party this evening for the town. There are Canadian students here too staying somewhere down the hill so we'll get to meet them.