Pin-ups and Peanut Butter

Today we had a pin-up of sorts of our nearly complete boards/ next iteration of our boards for the competition. It was a little unexpected, so when Frank told us yesterday that we would be pinning them up today, we were all a little stressed; while we knew they would have to be in their final stages before the Italy tour we leave for on Friday, everyone was expecting another work day to finish up some drawings and scan them in to organize them in various rendering programs on their computer. I am doing mine all by hand, so I had luckily started a little earlier with them. I wanted to be able to take my time to make appropriate decisions, as there is only enough time to do them once and little room for mistakes. Unfortunately, there is not a scanner large enough here to scan in the whole board, so I will have to go to Lugano when we get back from Italy to pay to have it scanned in and saved to a CD there (it will take them two days- another reason I needed to begin a little earlier). At this point we all just need to make some of the final decisions for its presentation on the sheets; It is easier said than done, but in a way much less stressful because we are not changing the design at this point, only producing something to best represent it. Once I have my work scanned and saved, I will try to place them in the blog as well.

Meanwhile, I feel that I must mention the "phenomenon" (I can't think of another appropriate word) of peanut butter here in the Villa, or, I suppose, Europe in general. It seems to be the one thing everyone universally misses, as it can't be found anywhere here. Because of this, most packages people have received recently, including me (from David), have included a jar of peanut butter or peanut butter to go packs in my case. There is no sharing of the peanut butter, but people will bring their personal jars with them to breakfast to put on some of the fresh bread or with a banana, or even, on some occasions, just by itself. I find it interesting that it has become such a novelty.