Travel Group and "Pin-Ups"

On Monday, the 38 architecture students in the Europe travel program came to visit us here in Riva. They began their two month semester of constant travel on the first of September, so they actually only have a few weeks left. While it is a shorter semester, it is an exhausting one for them, as they have no home base; They're having an amazing time, but are ready to go home and recover. It was really nice to see all of them; having them here meant that over half of our year of Architecture students were at the villa at the same time. I think we all missed seeing each other around studio in Blacksburg quite a bit. They spent most of the afternoon here and some stayed until later in the evening, catching a later train back to Como, Italy, where they were staying for a few days. It was a little taste of home for everyone; something I think we all needed.

Right now we are all trying to virtually finish up our projects before our 16 day Italian tour in less than two weeks. We have mini "pin-ups" to discuss our work with Frank. We are in groups of four; four went today and then Friday, Monday and Tuesday we will do the other three groups of four. It will be a pretty intense few weeks, but it will be nice to be pretty much done before we leave. We will still have a bit of work when we return and our seminar project too, though I think it will be a little less intense then. I know the rest of the semester is just going to fly by!