Not terrible

I arose from my bed this morning, dreading the day. Elisa tutoring session day. Following a little grammar lesson at CLIDA, the five of us tutorees headed to Il Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Dobby was there to greet us, and we breathed a sigh of relief. When she soon informed us that she wasn't joining us on the tour, we frowned- it meant we had to be alone with Elisa! Elisa arrived and chatted with us for a while... yes, CHATTED. That was our first shocker.

We spent 2 hours going through the Bargello, which was an awesome museum. This time, she didn't fly through everything as much as she had last week. I was still tired, but very interested in what she had to say. We saw one of the largest and most famous ivory collections in the world, Donatello's David, sculptures by Michelangelo, and a bunch of really cool bronze statues. I definitely have to go back. At the end of the tutoring session, she gave us a quiz on our readings. We all failed miserably. I spent countless hours on those readings and still could not understand what was important and what wasn't. My problems were certainly evident in the quiz. We weren't graded; Elisa just wanted to show us how important it is to learn the dates (UGH) and minute details. This class is going to be ridiculously hard. At least I like museums!

To assess Elisa at that session, she was intense, but not mean. There were points at the end where she made some faces about how stupid our answers were, etc, but that was the extent of it. Following the session, we quickly grabbed lunch and booked it back to CLIDA. We didn't want to be late after last week's incident.

We arrived on time for our History of Costume tutoring session and Elisa actually said hello and greeted Carla (she doesn't take Museologia, so it was the first time they had seen each other for the week). Then, we got down to business. We had a lot of questions on the readings, but she seemed pretty open to answer them all and understood why we had those particular questions. At the end, she gave us a quiz, and we all did pretty well. There were a few I didn't know, but remembered once we went over it.

So, we left our second tutoring session a little confused. Elisa had been fairly normal all day. She didn't look approachable, but she certainly had a calm delivery and didn't make anyone cry. We're thinking that this change might have happened as a result of someone saying something. Gabriella was very upset by her behavior last week, so we think that she may have called Holy Cross. Either something was done, or it's just another reason to think that Elisa could be bi-polar. Anyway, the week is coming to a close and I am so glad. I am exhausted. Tomorrow, I have class from 9-1 and then I'm going to my Uncle Ellis' and Aunt Gale's for lunch. They just arrived from the US and have a house along the Arno. I'm really excited to see some American family members.

I'll update tomorrow after lunch.

Ciao