Finally

I've been without internet for days because something was messed up at the school. I would have went to an internet cafe but its soo expensive here. 4 euros for an hour was the cheapest I could find. I still have a cold but the medicine I bought is amazing (I even went back to the pharmacist and told her how great it was... she laughed in my face). The weather here is still foggy and cold but slowly getting better. I visited the church Santa Maria della Salutle. It was gigantic and beautiful with ostentatious/Venetian mosaic floors that were magnificent. It was built to celebrate the end of the plague in Venice in the 1600's and the main alter has three statues depicting the Madonna with "Venice" on the left (represented by a beautiful, ornately dressed woman) and "The Plague" on the right (represented by an old ugly hag) with an angel chasing her away from Venice with a stake. I also went to the Peggy Guggenheim collection. It's not huge but contains some great pieces and some so-so pieces that I really like anyway... For instance Mondrian's "The Sea", Brancusi's "Bird in Space", and Magritte's "Empire of Light". She is also buried there beside her beloved babies.... apx 15 of her dead dogs.

Caution: listen to at low volume because my voice is horrendous and whinny.