"When you have eaten and are satisfied, Praise the Lord, your God." Deuteronomy 8:10.
So yeah as you can tell from that passage, I had some great meals here and I just want to say thanks to the Lord for his provision. It is pretty great to have a meal every time I go hungry. I joined a group of ladies for lunch yesterday and we ate at this wonderful little place that had phenomenal dishes to choose from. Personally I was not as hungry as I would have liked so I wound up getting an ensalata.(salad) The vegetables were so fresh and I had some really great Feta cheese on top. I had my fair share of free bread offered at the counter so I was pretty satisfied. I normally do not have large lunches so it hit the spot. I met these ladies through my wonderful friend Angela who I am going to to be traveling with after school gets out. We share many things in common and she just has an attitude about life that I could not agree more with. She is a go-getter and I really enjoy all interactions with her. So she lives with a host family that is affiliated with Agape (Campus Crusade in Italy) and through that she had lunch plans and invited me along. I also met a girl from University of North Carolina and she was a sweetheart. We shared a bit about ourselves but for the most part we were just learning about how the program is doing and what they plan to do in the future. It is crazy how the Lord is providing for this little ministry, and one of the ladies informed us of the cultural differences as far as religion is concerned. It is obvious that people are more prone to have a private religious life that does not correlate with their public life. It was definitely interesting to hear their point of view and to see how they respond to this dilemma.
I had two oral presentations both of which went well and I am glad I prepared myself for them. One was on a piece of art by Luca della Robbia who lived during the 15th century and produced many beautiful pieces of sculpture. He is known mainly for his glazed terracotta pieces majority of which depict the Virgin and Child. My other presentation was just in Italian and I had to describe Mi Famiglia.
Later on that day, I had the opportunity to attend a wonderful musical performance at the British Institute of Florence. It is right around the corner from my house and I just strolled over there a little late because I wound up having to stand for the performance since the place was packed. It was held in the Library and I want to add that it was such a great combination of things within the room; piano and literature. The books really created an interesting atmosphere for the music to accompany and I was pretty inspired, enough to write a poem of some type. I am not much of a writer so I will spare you the time and energy and therefore not publish it.
I loved being there because I got my fix of listening to live music and people watching which was a blast because most of the people were British and it was a joy to hear their accents. I deffinately plan on hitting up that library and checking out their sellection of books. I hope I have the permission to take out books and so on even though I don't have a card or whatever is needed. I will look into that. So yeah to conclude my night I joined a sweet newlywed couple that attends church with me and we enjoyed a wonderful night of pizza. I think it was good to spoil myself as far as food is concerned because I have been holding back on spending money here. I don't think you can blame me with the economic crisis taking place back in the states. So yeah I guess I have been just busy doing random things and I plan on traveling somewhere away from Florence this weekend so I will keep you posted.