ANOTHER WEEK HERE IN CAGLI began with the traditional Monday night dinner at Ristorante Commercio. The restaurant was packed as usual, with students and professors taking up nearly all of the fifty seats in the small restaurant. Vegetarians regaled themselves with quiche and pasta; the meat-eaters ate rabbit, quail, and what was rumored to be pigeon. The night culminated in an impromptu piano performance by professor Afi Scruggs, whose ivory-tickling sent the students dancing into the piazza for gelato and coffee.

Those who have noticed a number of distinctly beet-red students will note that the group bus trip to Roman coastal city Fano, on the Adriatic, resulted in a number of painful sunburns. Student Melissa Shantz advised her fellow classmates to "use sunscren, even if you don't burn in the U.S.A.". Asked about her activities on the beach in Fano, Shantz replied "We rented a paddleboat, which I highly reccommend. It was five euros for four people for a half hour, and there's even a slide." Shantz spent the half hour sliding down the slide and into the water, which she described as "mildly chilly". "The only downside," she continued, "was that it was hard to get back into the boat."

Student Kimberly Schurtz, seen wandering the halls of the Atrium with a plastic bag containing salami, prosciutto, and cheese, the makings of her lunch, said of the Fano beach trip: "I loved it. I didn't get a sunburn, but I got a tan."

Others spent the weekend in a more sedate fashion. "I slept all weekend," said Chris Nelson. "And I'm still tired."