Compito

O hey y'all. As you may have deduced, I am back in Italy. And yet the first semester is still in progress, and it is squeezing the life out of us before it burns out. We have one. more. week. Before SICILY, the sweetest reward I can imagine. We will be there for a week and I am so unbelievably excited. But there is still so much MERDA (I assume you don't need the translation for that) to get through before then. :( For some reason every single professor except one decided to give us both a huge final paper and a final exam. Even at Smith with English-speaking courses the work load has never been this bad for a lot of people here. Luckily one of the four papers is done with (9 pages in Italian...I was proud enough about that as it was. If I don't do well so help me God...) That just leaves 3 more papers and 3 more exams! I honestly don't know how I'll be able to finish it all. It's ridiculous, it's absolutely ridiculous.
But hey!

Sicily.

So I don't really have time to talk about much else because I have to finish my 8-10 page literature paper on the 265-page Italian book that I had to read every day over my vacation. In Italian. LET'S GET IT STARTED IN HERE!