Yesterday marked the end of Intensive Italian! For our fun activity this year we all got to learn the art of Italian flag-twirling. What a unique and cool experience it was.
Today, we hit up the slopes. Yay for successfully being able to say that I've skiied in 3 different countries! The weather was perfect but the conditions were ice, ice, and more ice - it was more like skating than skiing. I collided with a snowboarder (stupid snowboarders) and we both fell and slid down the mountain about three miles before we were able to clamber back up. Nonetheless, it was a glorious and thrilling experience. The drive was about two hours long and the timing was perfect - we got to ride through Tuscany at sunrise and then again at sunset. What a beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL place. God, you are quite the artist.
"Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift, We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis God's gift. Be strong! Say not the days are evil - who's to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce - O shame. Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep-entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song."
-Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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