a fresh start

I'm glad I didn't stress out much about being behind, I decided to take it one day at a time and see what happens. So far it's working out fine. My art history professor extended our paper a few days, my painting professor extended my painting a few days, bookmaking and drawing still have the same deadlines coming up so I'll be busy but not as bad as I expected. It's still Monday though, who knows, maybe later this week I'll say I spoke too soon.
I went to town to find hotels for my parents to stay at, and on my way back I bought a boar meat sandwich. It was delicious. They eat boar here, I guess it's pretty normal. I'll probably get another one at some point before I leave. I also bought fresh mozzarella because it was finally on sale :) The store I got the boar sandwich at had like 7 kinds of honey made around here from different flowers. They ranged from the crunchy textured lighter kind to medium brown and smooth. The lady at the store let us try one of the darker ones and it tasted like burnt sugar/honey. It was weird but really good, so I bought mini jars of 2 other kinds.

The gelateria is finally open, YESSS!!! I haven't been yet but I've heard it's good. The pastry shop is also calling to me every time I walk by but I haven't been inside yet. When we go on our Saturday field trips there are pastry shops at every other block, and I stop by almost all of them, kind of like in Japan. I'm somewhat glad that they aren't all over in the states, or else I would be a big spender on sweets at home too.

Maybe I should talk about where we go on Saturdays. Two Saturdays ago we went to Pienza and Montepulciano. Montepulciano is where New Moon was filmed but I haven't seen the movie so I couldn't appreciate that. There were posters all over and even wine called New moon haha.
This past Saturday we went to Arezzo. It was a pretty big city, they even had a Zara. It was weird to see young men because I don't see many in Cortona (mostly high school and middle aged~old) and there are 45 girls and 1 guy on this program.

This post was mostly about food. Clearly I'm ready for a predinner snack :) and bookmaking homework.