Florence - City Views

After spending the day in the hills around Florence visiting the European Union Institute, I spent the evening walking around Florence and getting oriented. These are the photos in roughly the same order that I took them during my walk.

This first photo was taken a block from the hotel. After wearing high heels all day long at the EU Institute, my feet felt like someone was stabbing the bottom of them with a fork over and over again. I wished I could have figured out the way down to the river so I could stick my feet in the Arno.

























































The following photographs were taken the next day in Florence as I was walking around before catching the train back to Rome.

Over on the Global Justice Blog...

I posted a reading response paper I wrote for one of my classes. Scored very well, but it isn't worth much in the overall grade. Bummer.

You can see the post at: http://globaljusticegroup.blogspot.com/2007/09/teeter-totter-of-immigrant-inclusion.html

Florence - The European Union Institute

As part of our visit to Florence, our program visited the European Union Institute, which is the EU's university for doctoral and post-doctoral research in law and the social sciences. See: http://www.iue.it/ It was interesting and I can see myself doing a one-year LLM program in International Law after I get Marlo through her college. Until then, enjoy the photos of the gardens and buildings.

A heads-up to those of you getting these posts via email.

Some of you get these posts via email. (If you don't, please don't ask me how because I have no idea whatsoever.)

I just wanted to let those of you who do receive them this way know that often the posts are not complete when I hit publish, even if I don't have "placeholder" in the title.

I recommend that you use your email notification as a heads-up that there is a new blog post online, and check it at the website itself. Otherwise, you are likely to be reading some half-thought-out ramblings and not see all the photos.

Global Justice Post Updated

I updated the Global Justice Blog post about my final from the Amsterdam Program to include the question the essay was answering.

You can view it at: http://globaljusticegroup.blogspot.com/2007/08/final-essay-from-amsterdam-program.html

Florence: Views from the Surrounding Hills

I know to those of you in Seattle, this green hills won't seem like much. However, to us, who have been surrounded by stone and mortar in Rome for weeks now, it was fantastically refreshing and beautiful. I could see spending a week in some villa on top of one of these hills, happily cooking Tuscan food and drinking local wine. We were only here for a few hours, but it did us good.