Dolcemente & Kandinsky

This past weekend, Pisa held its annual Dolcemente festival.  Dolcemente was a smaller version of the Perugia Chocolate Festival but with different sweets.  Jimin, Stephen, and I literally walked around the venue five times to sample every bit of sweetness they had to offer.  From gelato to chocolate to biscotti to nutella...ahhh dessert heaven!  As much as I enjoyed all the sampling, my favorite part was being able to practice our Italian.  Its shocking how much you can forget in a week (Fall Break)!  I always thought I knew the basics but when we had to actually speak Italian in Pisa, I realized how little I knew!  After all the sweets, we had to get something savory to balance out our palette so we found the nearest and cheapest thing possible: kebabs and falafels.  It was Stephen's first falafel, my second, and Jimin's bajillionth.  All that food had created mini food babies so we avoided going back to Dolcemente and chose to explore Pisa instead.  We ran into a lot of Italians who were on their way to Lucca for their Comic Con.  I never expected Italians to enjoy comics but I guess we're all similar in different ways.
We headed back to Dolcemente so that Jimin and I could go on our tour of Kandinsky.  Honestly, I wanted to come to Pisa just for this exhibition.  I studied a lot of Kandinsky's works in my art history class last semester and being able to easily attend an art exhibit where his works were on display just had my inner art history geek popping out.  What I thought to be a tour of the Kandinsky exhibition itself turned out to be a tour of Pisa + Kandinsky.  Our tour guide was very sweet.  Apparently all the tours were supposed to be in Italian but he translated the tour into English just for us!  I felt very bad and sorry because he was running out of breath and was switching back and forth between Italian and English so that the two of us could understand.  His English was almost perfect and for a middle-aged man, both Jimin and I found him to be very attractive.  But Kandinsky.  Artgasm.  That is all.