Tonight, my class celebrate my birthday (yesterday), and that of my classmate Tatiana (from Moscow) whose birthday is tomorrow (Friday). We went to a fairly expensive restaurant (Golden View) which overlooks the Arno and the Ponte Vecchio - a resto I've been wanting to visit, but needed an occasion to do so. Our birthdays seemed the right occasion. There were 9 of us for dinner, and it was just delightful.
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The Group - that's Maria on the right - she's also from Moscow
and studying art in Firenze for 2 weeks |
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| Francesca - my teacher |
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| William - from Brazil |
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| Tatiana - the other birthday gril! |
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| Jose and Nilza - also from Brazil, they joined the class this week |
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| Fancesca and Mikhail (sp) from Israel - Mikhail's in another class. |
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| Mikhail and Pablo who's from Mexico |
A fun night was had by all. Sorry the pictures are a bit blurry, but I didn't want to use my flash. Oh, and there was a group of about 20 American's in the resto celebrating American Thanksgiving - parents and their kids who are attending Duke University (which obviously has a satelite program here). Try explaining the origins of the holiday, in Italian, to an Italian class - molto difficile!
