Already back in the swing of things at school and only slightly deterred by the sore throat that has caught up with me. The weather is beautiful (for the moment) and I’m hoping against all hope that it will stay this way for at least the entire week. It’d be good way to start off the home stretch! I think I’ve already moaned enough about how quickly this year has gone by, but I have to continue… it seems like just yesterday that I was jumping up and down in the halls of the Suites, overjoyed to be reunited with my best friends after three “agonizing” months. What am I going to do without them in Italy…? I’m not going to pretend that I’d rather stay in Hillsdale because the opportunity to study art in Cortona is the chance of a lifetime, but I will miss everyone I’ll be leaving in the “states”. But as they say: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”