1. I got a piece of pizza from this place I've been wanting to go to all term that is on my street. It was more of a phyllo dough crust and it had a bottom and top crust which housed mushrooms and cheese. It was some of the best pizza I have had here: salty yet savory because of the phyllo dough and just enough cheesy to make it melty. Just talking about it makes me want to go back and get another slice.
But that is a pretty boring story. What made it interesting was that on the way out of the shop, I tripped on a cobblestone and it fell onto the cobblestone street. I was in front of a restaurant and a few people even groaned for me. I looked at it on the ground filled with depression and picked it up to take a trash can around the corner. But as I approached the trash can, I realized I just couldn't do it. I rationalized that I have probably eaten dirtier things in my life without knowing it and proceeded to eat the whole thing.
I don't regret it.
2. I went for a long run into the country side and was so caught up in the moment of that run I had to share it. My senses here are constantly being tested for their capacity; I see things, touch things, hear things and feel things but most I smell these gorgeous aromas.
The road was narrow asphalt and wasn't very busy. On either side were views of the Tuscan patchwork landscape of vineyards, olive groves, forest and houses. On the immediate side of the road were grassy knolls with gardens mixed in and large villas with beautiful gates and long windy roads. It was simply the most pictuerese run I've been on.
The best part about it though - and about Siena right now - is that all of the honeysuckle is blooming. For 5 miles all I got to smell was honeysuckle flowers and I was struck by how incredibly lucky I am to have studied abroad, but mostly to have studied abroad in Tuscany.
I think about all of the things I've done and things I'm going to do in my life and I know that this trip has been the most influential event of my life so far and will probably be one of them at the end of my life as well. It has changed me in so many ways and my perspective of life and the world will never be the same. I will return to Eugene and be stressed and go to school, work, eat, sleep and do all of this things again but something about them will be different. Even the mundane will be different and that is because I am different. I feel my desires for career, relationships and my relationship with myself have been tested here yet I feel more confident than ever in what I want out of life and who I am.
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