Monday Jan.7

Ciao,

How is everyone! I got internet, yeah! So I spoke with a few of you over skype tonight and it was so great to hear your voices! Its now 11:00 at night, and today was my first day at school. It was great. This morning at 8:45 I met up with Kirstin (from austria) and Pep (from Barcelona) and we went to school together. We figured that if we were going to get lost, we might as well get lost together. Anyways, we went to school and we had orientation this morning. After that Pep and I came into the city to have lunch and a coffee of course! Then we had our first class, luxury merchandising at 3. It was great. Our teacher was so great. She used to be the vp for federated international stores for almost 40 years. We are going to get to go on so many great field trips. I already know what most will be, but I will wait to tell you them until I go on them! surprise surprise! haha! Anyways, so all in all it was a great first day. My schedule is great. I go to school at 3pm on mondays for only 3 hours and then, tuesdays at 8:30-11:30... so most days I only have school for 3 hours or so. Its awesome. But this week our schedule is a little different because the fashion shows are in FLORENCE!!! Yeah. On wednesday, we have our first assignment... go to PITTI UOMO (the name of the mens shows) and then take notes and pictures of all the trends. Then we have to present them to the class on tuesday. I am so excited.

This week will also be exciting because the men's buyers from Neiman's are coming... so I am going out to dinner with them on thursday and then back to the shows this weekend! I cannot wait.

This is truly a dream come true. Well, here is one of the pictures!
Love to all!