Bergamo

So, last Sunday, after church, I made a quick trip to Bergamo. Its another really interesting city, about 45 minutes away from Milano. Probably the coolest thing about it is that the old historical city center of the town, is so old, that it was built up on the top of a hill. Its called Citta' Alta. So basically I just spent the day wandering around up there. I was planning on taking tons of photos, but in the end, I kept getting distracted by the random people I kept meeting and talking to. Unfortunately the photos don't really give a good idea of what the city is like, but some of them are decent.

Como...

Saturday I went on my first day trip. I got on a train around 12:00, (accompanied by a new friend... Sara Carnieletto) and we went to Como. Its about 40 minutes north of Milan, in the lake/mountain district. It was an excellent day, spent basically just walking around like nerdy tourists. At one point, we rode a tram to the top of one of the nearby mountains, and spent quite a bit of time exploring a small village up at the top. Here are some of the pictures:

Can I just say...

I absolutely love my job! I was walking home from work yesterday, and I realized that I am totally enjoying this internship. I really think that I could be happy working at a place like Continuum, for the rest of my life.

As I have mentioned before, we are working on a medical project right now. The research and analysis that we are doing, in preparation to create our design solution, is so incredibly interesting. I have always wanted to dive deeper into design research and strategy, and this is really my chance. I wish I could go into more specifics of what we're doing... but that will have to come later, after the whole thing is over.

the weekend

Well... because of the less than desirable weather this weekend, I decided not to take my day trip to Como to do some sight seeing. Instead I spent saturday doing a bunch of random/necessary things around town. I finally went and got some minutes for my telephone, I went shopping downtown and got some more professional-ish clothes to wear to work, and a few other things. I also slept in.

Sunday, was a very mormon day. I spent the entire day doing church things. I went to church, and then to a teaching appointment with the missionaries, and then back to church for a baptism, and then dinner with the members afterwards. Actually it wasn't technically dinner, after the baptism, but there was so much food, and everyone stood around talking and eating for about 2 hours, so I can't really call that refreshments...

In the middle of the day, I did take a few minutes to snap some more photos of Milan. It was a dark and rainy day... basically all we've had since I've been here.

the shopping district


cool red pavement


a church in the middle of the big industrial buildings (very typical of Milan)


the Duomo (main cathedral in the city)



Myself, on my way to church


Coke chairs


Castle Estense


in the metro


random shots out on the streets