The most memorable part of the course had to be seeing everyone dressed incredibly dapper for our first excursion, Le Nozze di Figaro.It was an incredible experience: meeting by the elegant water fountain, under the daze of twilight hours, everybody dressed in their formal attire. It was our first night experiencing the arts, and I felt that dressing outside of our comfort zone somehow placed us in a different state of mind. For most of us, it was our first opera (or even major artistic experience) ever. We did not truly know what to expect. Yet, we were somehow able to open up ourselves to the grand culture of art. We dressed classy, we thought classy, we were classy.