Rome is so cool I can’t even begin to describe it. The other day I went for a run, which I figured I should do cause it seems like all I do is eat and drink (water, and nothing else), got lost and ended up at the Coliseum. That’s been one of the highlights of my trip so far.
Another highlight was getting lost (this is a recurring theme) on the bus and rapping (that’s right, rapping) our way back home. We were in the Roman Projects. More on that later.
What’s been going on since the last post? Well, the guys cooked dinner for a couple of the girls last Wednesday, followed by a Pub Crawl at the Coliseum Thursday. We went to about three bars before we split up and ventured off into the night. It was pretty expensive (20 Euro) but was a pretty interesting experience, and I got a cool shirt so it wasn’t all bad.
At the Pub Crawl. Yeah, that's the Colosseum in the background!
The next night we went to Club Micca with our Italian T.A. While it seemed more like she was babysitting us at first, eventually we got past that and had a good time. Then she left (right before the Cabaret that was both cool and a little disturbing) and told us to get on bus N12 to get home. So we did. Unfortunately, it was the N12 that went in the opposite direction of where we wanted to go. 20 minutes later we figured this out, jumped off the bus, crossed the street and tried again, this time with much better results.
In the VIP at Club Micca
After that it was a night out at the Scholar’s Lounge, where I watched the Saints run all over the Cardinals and won a free drink because of it. After another late night, we took life easy on Sunday, taking the 116 that we always see drive by our house all the way to Borghese Park, where we got to see a beautiful view of Rome. We go back as a class in a couple weeks, and I can’t wait. It was the first time all trip I had seen grass!
Last night was taken up by a screening of “Gladiator” with one person from the program and 10 kids from the honors program. Then we went out and walked around for awhile before heading home.
Finally, getting up to today. Our first Roman Civilization excursion involved walking through the Roman Forum. It was incredible. And beautiful. And old. Much like Angelina Jolie. It was almost haunting walking past monuments that have been up for thousands, (THOUSANDS!) of years. Sometimes it’s hard to fathom it all.
On top a hill looking over the Roman Forum
We even had beautiful weather!
Then, since we had a ticket to explore for the day and an extra half an hour before Italian class, Semir, Whitney and myself ran into the Colosseum and looked around. Holy cow! It was an amazing sight, and a little surreal, especially, after just seeing “Gladiator” the night before. When you think of how long it’s been around, how huge it is and the fact that it only took 5 years to build way back in the day!
It takes 2.5 years for them to repave a two-mile section of I-5!
At the Colosseum
It was my favorite place that I’ve been so far in Rome. The only thing that could've made it cooler was if my camera's battery hadn't died.
The last picture I got before the battery went out.
It was a heck of an experience and is going to be hard to top. Fortunately, I have a little over 7 weeks to try to do it. And with my three page paper that’s due tomorrow pretty much done (I say “pretty much” very liberally) and a trip to Florence coming up this weekend, anything’s possible!
Ciao!
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