Peccato!

It's been a rough past few days. I just got back from watching the Seahawks game, which was an intense heartbreaker. It was a great game, but I wish I could be celebrating a win right now. My favorite student life coordinator Jen left for Africa this morning, and she's been replaced by what sounds like another version of Shelley. When is the administration back at Gonzaga going to realize that the most important requirement you need for student life position at Gonzaga in Florence is knowledge about Florence, from, I don't know, maybe living there or doing the Gonzaga in Florence program yourself? You have to know the city if you're going to live in it and help students live in it. A master's degree alone can't help students get from their pensione to Santa Croce, it can't help arrange discounts and school-wide events with local restaurants, and it definitely can't help preserve the rich traditions of the years past. It takes something else. There are a lot of people who have it. But you can't frame it and put it on your wall, and you can't put it on your resumes to impress your employers and get the job. I wish they understood it. Jen definitely had it. Her absence will be felt greatly this semester.

Peccato. Too bad. You can only get so upset before realizing that you're in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, having what will probably be the greatest year of your life.