Ask and you shall receive

Yesterday, it stormed. And it was glorious! In the broken Italian of the American students here in Urbino, the event sounds quasi biblical: "Then, the big cloud came and gave us rain. Suddenly, it was cool." Suddenly, my room was bearable, or even better, cool! Leaving both the door and the window open helped as well. The bees are back, but with the window opened all the way, they seem to find their way out rather quickly. And the rain came just in time for the International Student party, a little thank-you from the ERSU staff (the people who run this student housing/dining company) for the American programs who are keeping Urbino a point of international encounters. Ironic, since they choose Urbino since it isn't international—walking around this town, it would be relatively difficult to find people to converse at length with in English. 

So, yesterday turned out to be a mental health day. Just relaxing, napping, watching the storm. And it was delightful.