And because it is Italian Independence Day, we didn't have classes. Instead, the CCI family plus a few friends teamed up with Paddock Chevrolet in Buffalo for the International Walk for Autism.
For each of us who participated in the walk, Paddock Chevrolet donated $150 to autism research. Lauren's dad sent us all "International Team" t-shirts to wear for the walk and we met Lauren and her apartment at Cerchi at noon to pick up our shirts and organize. After Lauren filmed her introduction to the video she's sending to Buffalo News, we made our way through Piazza Signoria and down to the Arno River. The whole walk didn't take very long, but it was fun. Since everything is closed for the holiday, the streets were more crowded than I've ever seen them (mind you, I haven't been in town for a weekend since the weather started getting nice) and they twenty-something of us got a lot of weird looks in our matching shirts with Glenn following along filming the whole thing.
We crossed the Arno near Gusta Pizza and made our way down Altra'Arno, dodging pedestrians and mugging for the camera every time we passed Glenn. When we reached Ponte Vecchio, we crossed back to our side of the river and went back to school.
Lauren isn't sure when our footage will be on the news, but I'll update this post when we're online. If you know anyone in the Buffalo, New York area, tell him or her to keep an eye out for CCI Florence on WKBW Eyewitness News.
So that's that. It's a brief post because tomorrow is our final for Italian Art and I will literally be spending the rest of today cramming six hundred years worth of fresco dates and sculpture patrons (Meh-DEH-cheeeee) into my brain. Wish me luck!
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