Campioni e di Lavoro Delle Cucine

After 16 hours of traveling and sitting in airports, a full day of the most hot and ridiculously tiring cleaning we finally started our classes.  The work part of work/study is definitely more tiring than 3 hours of work a day aught to be, but it's certainly better than finding another $800.

So first day of class we got right into slides of historical pieces, which were pretty cool, though quite a few of them I'd seen already in my own research.  But then she started teaching us about the different mechanisms for holding lenses and had us do one with an eye-wire going half way round the lens and mono-filament taking up the rest.  I'd always wondered how the fishing line was pulled tight in that sort of lens setting, so doing that myself was pretty cool.