Ancient Rome

            Remember how I started yesterday’s post of how it was a long and exhausting day? I take that back. Today has been a looong and exhausting day.

            Today was almost entirely devoted to Ancient Rome. We had a guest professor from school give us the tour, which was really good! It is so crazy to see how Rome has been around since antiquity and has all these different eras that have been built one on top of another. As a friend of mine put it, “you look around and see for the most part a modern city and turn around and say ‘o, hey colosseum’” The only thing that was a little frustrating though is that I know NOTHING about ancient Rome. I don't even remember/ know what was taught in world history in high school because, well that is a whole other story.

            After lunch, we made our way to the pantheon, which was also really cool. On our way to the Piazza Novena, our professors made us go into a famous gelato shop and get some. I think they are starting to catch on to our max. 50 minute attention span. That, or we are doing a pretty horrible job at hiding our exhaustion. After, we went to the piazza and saw Bernini’s fountain of the 4 rivers. Angels and Demons anyone?

            When we got back to the hotel, all 34 of us just about crashed for a much needed nap. Everyone was very exciting (insert sarcasm here) at dinner.