class is
sitting in a circle, sipping cognac, drinking red wine from the bottle, swigging local beer, discussing intellectual activity in europe before world war 1, on the banks of seine in early autumn

class is hugue pitchers of beer, review sheets and notebooks, beer halls in munich with putchses galore, intellectual survival dhuring world war 11 and people running off to the alps while my teacher orders another round

class is english pubs in madrid, guiness, tequilla, sewing, the lives of viennese jews, and electoral politics vs. individual ideals.

class is accordions and real peach schnapps on the decks of night boats to oslo discussing how the crusades fueled the growth of dutch stock markets, scrap booking and staring at stars above and windmills on either side of me.

class is sitting among ruins of ancient greece disscussing demagogues and imagining wearing a toga and trying to sell figs at the agora while worshipping hephastus and paying homage to my ancestors in the necropolis

class is climbing 286 stairs to the top of st.peters basillica at the vatican and looking out at ancient west, medevial west, and modern west all at once, staring into the popes bedroom window and charting the growth christianity. thank you saint helena!

class is 50 minute walks along the cliffs of santorini with muffin and cookie while the wind whips at my face and i learn that soil erosion is the hoved animals fault as a volcano mocks us in the background.

class is perched atop an abandoned hospitalers fortress over looking a horizion without a vanishing line cause the blue of the meditteranean matches the blue of the sky.

class is in the gardens of peterhof, with elaborate fountains, the peoples will, bolsheviks, hot tea body heat and warm kartofala from a womans plaid vendor bag.

class is in luggage cars on trains from salzburg to munich and i cant concentrate because i just discovered and infoshop after an afternoon of laying in leaf piles staring at the sky and playing on jungle gyms over looking the inn river

and now, class is dry erase boards, projectors, computers, and desks, 4 walls, locked doors windows, lectures and tile.