It's raining here in Milan and it got cold all of a sudden. I don't have much clothes for colder weather. I will probably have to go out and buy stuff, shoes and shirts with long sleeves - unless it gets warmer again. I don't imagine that my stuff will arrive fast enough for me to get to my winter clothes in time, but who knows? miracles happen sometimes.
Today I went with Gili (the one whom I met on the street - sister of Ronit from the Export Institute, studying here) to an interesting exhibition of photographs by Gian Paolo Barbieri - a big fashion photographer. He's taken countless pictures for Vogue with beautiful, famous models whom he got all dressed up and staged them in special ways. I liked his black and white pictures better, something almost startling about his color photos (very vivid colors). The thing is - the people photographed are so beautiful - and most of us aren't, it's depressing that these become the standard of what's beautiful. There were also some great photos of Audrey Hepburn, Nurayev, Sofia Loren, Angelica Houston. Interesting.
It's fashion week here, as I already mentioned and there's this ad on the streets of this model who is suffering from anorexia - the ad is actually against these same standards of beauty and slimness which make models eat too little, use drugs and so on, in an effort to stay thin enough to fit the standards required.
What else? Am reading Meir Shalev's "Al Yona va Na'ar" (on a pigeon and a young man). I've never read Meir Shalev's books before. I'm told he has better books than this one, but so far I'm enjoying it very much. His use of Hebrew is great and it also feels like he's properly researched the topics he's writing about.
Am still eating ice cream. Out of this world. It seems the Italians have gone into the European mode of winter regarding ice cream - no ice cream, you might catch a cold....
Tomorrow, I'm going to check out the English book stores (maybe I should be reading in Italian?!) there seems to be 4 or 5 bookstores dedicated to books in English. Might also go to a pool with Paola.
Got to run. Bye for now.
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Never received this one. It came with the next blog. Glad you're finding some interesting things to do while the office is closed. Have you finalized the apartment yet? Sounds like a good move--you've already found a pool and a gym near home.
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