After nearly twenty-four hours of traveling, I’ve returned to Colgate. Luckily, we did not meet the fates of many of my friends and classmates that were and are stranded at airports across the country and world due to inclement weather in the Eastern USA... we missed the storm by a day. There were a lot of people at Heathrow on standby, hoping to get on our flight to New York. Our connections in Milan and London were so short that it is by some miracle our luggage (and us) made it all the way through. No complaints from me. We drove up from the City yesterday, and I spent the majority of the day unpacking, and getting my life back in order and trying to de-jetlag… I think I need a break from my Spring Break.
Highlights from the trip? Pretty much everything… but of note, Neuschwanstein Castle, the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, sitting in Piazza San Marco at 1 AM, a truly authentic Sicilian dinner in Catania, and the Capuchin crypt in Palermo.
John and I were pretty non-stop on-the-go the entire spring break, especially in Sicily, given that neither of us had ever been there before, and we wanted to experience as much as we could in our four full days there. The coastline is absolutely beautiful: blue waters, cactus growing alongside cliffs, a snow-covered Mt. Etna, the resort towns of Ortigia outside of Siracusa and Taormina outside of Catania, and the mayhem of Palermo. We covered a lot of ground, as evidenced by the blisters on my feet. I could not have asked for a better Spring Break – it was the best.
Despite the jetlag and exhaustion, I am trudging on with schoolwork and the like. I have devised the idea for my final video arts project, which I am not going to say much about until it opens in the Senior Arts show on April 11, but I will say that it will have some of the three hours of video footage I captured while on Spring Break, primarily of Venice, and I will be using appropriated imagery... I will pretty much be focusing the next three weeks to this project, and it will be a lot of work, yet I’m really excited to make this video piece. I’m in the final stretch of my college tenure. Unbelievable.
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