So, after living in Florence for a full 3 days, I started classes at NYU Florence today. It was a pretty easy day. I walked to class, which takes about 30 minutes, and I had only once class today, Italiano con Professoressa Contini. I have Italiano 4 days a week (Lunedi - Giovedi) for 75 minutes, and the class is conducted entirely in Italian. At first, I was shocked at the thought of spending an hour everyday fumbling with Italian, but I got over it when I realized that I would rather look stupid in the classroom than when I'm lost and clueless at the train station in Venezia.
Another thing I'm learning about classes here in NYU Florence is that there isn't a whole lot of it. I only had once class today. In fact, most days I'll only have once class. Most classes only meet once a week, for 2-3 hours (except Italian, of course). This is a huge change from NYU in NYC, where I'm used to about 5 classes a day. I don't know how I'll get used to so few classes, so I think I'll try to enroll into classes for no credit, or volunteer teaching English at a school. I'm part of the community service program here in Florence, called Vivere il Volontariato, so the part-time teaching position looks like a good possibility. The Vivere il Volontariato coordinator is coming by later for a pizza party, so I guess we'll see how this idea works out. Ciao.