Showing posts with label basilica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basilica. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Rome photo diary

















The days are fleeting and time refuses to slow down. It seems like I was just thinking about my firsts and suddenly I'm itemizing my lasts - last Tuesday night out, last meal in Florence, last paper. Being busy with finals is making the time fly by even faster! I had a presentation yesterday, a paper due today, tonight is the art show (pics to come!), tomorrow I have a quiz, the list just keeps going. This weekend will be the first that I have been in Florence for the entire weekend since September. It's so different from then though, I actually know where I want to eat and what I want to do!

Monday, December 3, 2012

When in Rome






















More pictures from my class field trip to Rome! On Friday night we went out to eat at the cutest restaurant. Four out of five of us got pasta with lamb that was amazing! After Chelsea, Joe and I went to a hole in the wall bar called the Fiddler's elbow. Chelsea left early, but Joe and I drank beer and played darts with Italians. We had such a nice time speaking to them in Italian for hours! We lost darts, turns out I'm really terrible! Whoops. We got back to the hotel around one and had to get up at seven thirty the next morning. We went to EUR, a fascist planned city on the outskirts of Rome. It's so fascist, it's scary. I hated it so much. We went to St. Peter's where there were about thirty marching bands and a circus tent set up...WHAT? The last thing on our itinerary was to visit the Etruscan artifacts at the Villa Guilia. 

It was all so great and I'm so happy I got to spend some time in Rome! This was my last trip and while it makes me so sad, it also means I'll be reuniting with my friends and family in America soon. This is the last week of classes and next week in finals. I can't make time slow down! It's going by way too fast. I'll be spending all the time that's not studying enjoying Florence and everything it has to offer. Savoring every moment I have here.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

To Rome with love















I feel like I can't update fast enough! I went to Rome on Friday and Saturday with my class. My teacher is utterly brilliant and it was a complete joy to have him lead us around the city. Our first stop was the colosseum which did not disappoint! It was everything I had hoped it would be! We also visited the Arch of Constantine, the Basilica of Maxentius, the Roman Forum, the Vittorio Emanuele III Monument, the Risorgimento museum and the Pantheon on Friday. My friend Joe and I started playing a game called 'I spy antiquity,' which was way too easy in Rome! It was a lot of information, but so educational! By the end of it I was completely exhausted. More pictures to come!