Blogging
From Abroad

The title to my blog occurred a couple hours ago when my roommate Googled our Fashion Journalism teacher Benedetta Barzini. She speaks amazing English, I think mainly because she grew up and worked in New York when she was modeling. She is really down-to-earth… she told us she wasn’t a big deal or anything, but really… what not-big deals are on the cover of Vogue?

NABA, the school we are at in Milan, is really nice. It isn’t in the city center… it’s probably a 15 minute metro ride away, but it’s probably good to not be in city center so everything isn’t crazy expensive (5 euro for a coffee? no thanks…). Best of all, we have internet at our apartment… but with at least 6 people trying to get on at once, it’s kind of difficult sometimes.

We got to Milan Sunday. Being in Italy on Sunday is vaguely torture. Nothing (NOTHING) is open. We wandered the streets looking for food, only to find some chips and peanuts as apertifs.

Yesterday was BASTILLE DAY (my favorite foreign independence holiday… sorry Cinco de Mayo and Boxing Day (even a real holiday??). I wore blue and white and some waiter said “Bonjour, Madame” so the image I was going for worked.

(Note Bastille Day outfit.)

Milan’s Duomo. Apparently the most impressive of the one million Duomos (churches) we have seen this month.

My roommate and I walked down along the river today and discovered Milan’s “apertif” hour (happy hour). From 7-10 you pay 7 euro and get a drink and a huge spread of a buffet: most places we saw had 12-15 things to chose from (at least) but we had already eaten dinner so we just grabbed a gellato at the end of the street and walked back home.