i tried to post that yesterday at the school but the internet was FREAKING out so i couldn't and then the pictures didn't work today so i'm going to have to go back and fill them in.
anyways, real time: today's my last day in rome and i'm extremely sad :( definitely cried this morning on the bus on the way here and honestly feel like i could continue living this life for a long time to come. i just love everything about rome, the people the food the fashion the shoes! the men (so beautiful!) the language the art even the buses...everything. i will miss this city and this life so so much when i'm back in texas and eagerly await my next visit here (hopefully one that will last longer than this one!). like i said, i'll go back and fill in all of the missing gaps from the blog and i apologize for the sporadic and incomplete posts the past couple of weeks! shmer shmer l'estate di roma รจ stata veramente incredibile! love you all, thanks for following my life, and i'll be back soon :)
ciao tutti!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
intensity
monday, june 21
[note: i'll fill in the story of the previous weekend later...i just feel like moving forward with the blog now!]
this day was very low key, met for professor biow's class at the school and discussed raphael (i almost forgot how much i LOVE him until we talked about his masterpieces in detail in class...love that guy). after class i went out to grab lunch and just walk around for a while, bought some BEAUTIFUL italian silk ties, had italian class and then just headed home. martina was over when i got there (always a pleasant surprise) and i just love that girl so much. i interviewed her for my italian class and she wants to be a veterinarian (i did at one point also...and she's left-handed!...so much in common - friend soulmates <3).
tuesday, june 22
class with antonella, lunch from our favorite italian supermarket (despar) and then off to the MUSEI VATICANI!! so much to see and take in and definitely emotionally (and physically) draining...sistine chapel, le stanze di raffaello (with the school of athens, among other masterpieces), the laocoon sculpture, paintings, statues, amazing art history overload galore. seeing the laocoon and apollo belvedere statues was incredible and walking through so many grandiose rooms packed-full of art was like a dream come true. and intense.
my favorite part of the museums were definitely the rooms by raphael, especially the school of athens. i stood in front of it for probably thirty minutes and then went back after the group left about two hours later for another thirty or forty-five minutes. it's just breathtakingly beautiful and detailed and a true marvel to see in person. standing, in awe, at the scale and beauty and fun and detail and movement on the school of athens is literally like nothing i've ever experienced before. i laughed (weird but there's a really funny detail of this guy pointing at and judging the figure of diogenes), i cried, i stared, i blinked, i got really really close to it and stood really far away, everything. just loved it and truly fell in love with raphael (mr. peavy, my high school art history teacher, would be proud). love you raph!
the sistine chapel, on the other hand, was an entirely different experience. it's one of those things that i'm glad i can say now "oh yeah, i've been to the sistine chapel" but was nothing like i expected. it was SO crowded and hot and generally uncomfortable, for me at least. i don't want to undermine how awe-inspiring it truly is, i couldn't take my eyes off of the last judgment, but i think some major changes need to be put in place in terms of how many people they let in at a time and the way the guards treat people and the lighting and yeah. enough complaining. I WAS AT THE SISTINE CHAPEL!!! woo.
after that we walked through the picture gallery of the vatican and saw some some leonardo's, more raphael, and a beautiful depiction of the garden of eden by wenzel peter. like i said before, i went back to look at the raphael's again after the group left, wanted to see a particular statue that was closed :( , bought some postcards, and made my way out. one minute i was there, one minute i wasn't. then it was raining and i was hungry :/ a very intense emotional day for me. then i went home and had a really intense discussion about homelessness and religion and life (all in italian! great success!) and then to sleep. quite a day.
[note: i'll fill in the story of the previous weekend later...i just feel like moving forward with the blog now!]
this day was very low key, met for professor biow's class at the school and discussed raphael (i almost forgot how much i LOVE him until we talked about his masterpieces in detail in class...love that guy). after class i went out to grab lunch and just walk around for a while, bought some BEAUTIFUL italian silk ties, had italian class and then just headed home. martina was over when i got there (always a pleasant surprise) and i just love that girl so much. i interviewed her for my italian class and she wants to be a veterinarian (i did at one point also...and she's left-handed!...so much in common - friend soulmates <3).
tuesday, june 22
class with antonella, lunch from our favorite italian supermarket (despar) and then off to the MUSEI VATICANI!! so much to see and take in and definitely emotionally (and physically) draining...sistine chapel, le stanze di raffaello (with the school of athens, among other masterpieces), the laocoon sculpture, paintings, statues, amazing art history overload galore. seeing the laocoon and apollo belvedere statues was incredible and walking through so many grandiose rooms packed-full of art was like a dream come true. and intense.
my favorite part of the museums were definitely the rooms by raphael, especially the school of athens. i stood in front of it for probably thirty minutes and then went back after the group left about two hours later for another thirty or forty-five minutes. it's just breathtakingly beautiful and detailed and a true marvel to see in person. standing, in awe, at the scale and beauty and fun and detail and movement on the school of athens is literally like nothing i've ever experienced before. i laughed (weird but there's a really funny detail of this guy pointing at and judging the figure of diogenes), i cried, i stared, i blinked, i got really really close to it and stood really far away, everything. just loved it and truly fell in love with raphael (mr. peavy, my high school art history teacher, would be proud). love you raph!
the sistine chapel, on the other hand, was an entirely different experience. it's one of those things that i'm glad i can say now "oh yeah, i've been to the sistine chapel" but was nothing like i expected. it was SO crowded and hot and generally uncomfortable, for me at least. i don't want to undermine how awe-inspiring it truly is, i couldn't take my eyes off of the last judgment, but i think some major changes need to be put in place in terms of how many people they let in at a time and the way the guards treat people and the lighting and yeah. enough complaining. I WAS AT THE SISTINE CHAPEL!!! woo.
after that we walked through the picture gallery of the vatican and saw some some leonardo's, more raphael, and a beautiful depiction of the garden of eden by wenzel peter. like i said before, i went back to look at the raphael's again after the group left, wanted to see a particular statue that was closed :( , bought some postcards, and made my way out. one minute i was there, one minute i wasn't. then it was raining and i was hungry :/ a very intense emotional day for me. then i went home and had a really intense discussion about homelessness and religion and life (all in italian! great success!) and then to sleep. quite a day.
Friday, July 2, 2010
picture update!
ok here's the rundown of the past week and a half or so in pictures!
weekend of june 18, un viaggio al sud! (a trip to the south)
pompeii (so freaking cool!)
petrified body of a pompeian caught in the eruption of vesuvius
some ruins
preserved interior of a typical pompeian home
how pompeian kids used to play hide and seek
weekend of june 18, un viaggio al sud! (a trip to the south)
pompeii (so freaking cool!)
petrified body of a pompeian caught in the eruption of vesuvius 
some ruins
preserved interior of a typical pompeian home
how pompeian kids used to play hide and seek
then off to sorrento!
a beautiful view of one of my favorite cities in italy!
the view from the delicious restaurant we ate at friday night in sorrento :)
true love
brianna and i hanging with the twelve-year-olds...pretending to be werewolves/vampires...shmer
a beautiful view of one of my favorite cities in italy!
the view from the delicious restaurant we ate at friday night in sorrento :)
true love
brianna and i hanging with the twelve-year-olds...pretending to be werewolves/vampires...shmer
sunday
napoli to visit the capodimonte museum then back to rome!
napoli to visit the capodimonte museum then back to rome!
capodimonte museum in napoli
overall a BEAUTIFUL weekend in the north;; sorrento is amazing! (honeymoon spot? i think yes!), wish we could have spent more time in napoli, delicious food and COOKIES, great laughs, great sun, salman rushdie, i love italy, more pictures and details to come!
overall a BEAUTIFUL weekend in the north;; sorrento is amazing! (honeymoon spot? i think yes!), wish we could have spent more time in napoli, delicious food and COOKIES, great laughs, great sun, salman rushdie, i love italy, more pictures and details to come!
hiiiii
hi everyone i'm so sorry i haven't updated the blog in such a long time! we've been crazy busy with school and church-seeing and everything else that i literally haven't had an hour to just sit and update! i might have time to update today but if not this may be the last entry before i head to switzerland, where (thank goodness!) my internet availability will infinitely improve and i can come back and fill in all the blanks :) i'm heading to lunch now to the BEST PANETERIA (bread shop) IN ROME that happens to be 100% KOSHER (yesssss) and then maybe back here to blog! if not, i will catch up as soon as i can! ciao ciao!
if nothing else i'll try to throw some pictures on here from the last week and a half so you can get a glimpse of what i've been up to!
if nothing else i'll try to throw some pictures on here from the last week and a half so you can get a glimpse of what i've been up to!
Monday, June 21, 2010
where'd this week go?
monday, june 14
we started off this week having class with professor biow actually in a classroom as opposed to touring sites around rome, beginning with lessons on michelangelo. i was SO tired and could not keep my eyes open in biow's class or class with antonella...soooooo i took a nap at the school after class! it was beautiful :) then i walked around the jewish ghetto, the area in which our school is located, ate at a KOSHER deli (woo woo! finally some meat!) and went into a myriad of unique and amazing shops around the area. after walking around for some time, i actually met up with brianna at a park near the school to study and then we went to an irish pub for dinner and to watch the italy vs. paraguay soccer match on tv. i don't really care about soccer that much but it was a fun experience nonetheless (and a free dinner..yes please!).
tuesday, june 15
class was pretty uneventful but afterwards brianna and i went to the galleria doria phamphilj, a papal palace that is actually still resided in by the family (so cool!). it is a BEAUTIFUL palace and literally covered, from floor to ceiling, in every room, with paintings and paintings and more paintings and some other paintings. when we studied imperial palaces and lavish interior decoration in art history i always scoffed at it for being gaudy and overly-fanciful and (can i say it?) ugly...but being inside that palace, especially the intricately decorated ballroom, transformed my entire perception of spaces like that. the beauty in the details is just overwhelming (in the best way possible!) and i'm amazed and incredibly jealous that people used to inhabit spaces like the palazzo doria pamphilj...wow wow wow. however, the number of paintings all over the place was kind of overwhelming and it was hard to really internalize or see the beauty in any one piece, but instead i basically just gawked over the beauty of the space as a whole. there is a diego velazquez portrait there that was AMAZING and the true gem of the galleria and brianna and i were awed by a small, yet still beautiful, pastoral scene by peter brueghel. it was a great time in a magnificent palace and overall a great day!
brianna snuck a picture of me in the galleria, (free) audioguide, water bottle, and trusty blue guide rome in hand!
we started off this week having class with professor biow actually in a classroom as opposed to touring sites around rome, beginning with lessons on michelangelo. i was SO tired and could not keep my eyes open in biow's class or class with antonella...soooooo i took a nap at the school after class! it was beautiful :) then i walked around the jewish ghetto, the area in which our school is located, ate at a KOSHER deli (woo woo! finally some meat!) and went into a myriad of unique and amazing shops around the area. after walking around for some time, i actually met up with brianna at a park near the school to study and then we went to an irish pub for dinner and to watch the italy vs. paraguay soccer match on tv. i don't really care about soccer that much but it was a fun experience nonetheless (and a free dinner..yes please!).
tuesday, june 15
class was pretty uneventful but afterwards brianna and i went to the galleria doria phamphilj, a papal palace that is actually still resided in by the family (so cool!). it is a BEAUTIFUL palace and literally covered, from floor to ceiling, in every room, with paintings and paintings and more paintings and some other paintings. when we studied imperial palaces and lavish interior decoration in art history i always scoffed at it for being gaudy and overly-fanciful and (can i say it?) ugly...but being inside that palace, especially the intricately decorated ballroom, transformed my entire perception of spaces like that. the beauty in the details is just overwhelming (in the best way possible!) and i'm amazed and incredibly jealous that people used to inhabit spaces like the palazzo doria pamphilj...wow wow wow. however, the number of paintings all over the place was kind of overwhelming and it was hard to really internalize or see the beauty in any one piece, but instead i basically just gawked over the beauty of the space as a whole. there is a diego velazquez portrait there that was AMAZING and the true gem of the galleria and brianna and i were awed by a small, yet still beautiful, pastoral scene by peter brueghel. it was a great time in a magnificent palace and overall a great day!
brianna snuck a picture of me in the galleria, (free) audioguide, water bottle, and trusty blue guide rome in hand!
wednesday, june 16
class was the same 'ol same 'ol but brianna and i grabbed lunch at despar, an italian chain supermarket, that is super cheap and super delicious! a heaping slice of potato and rosemary pizza for less than 2 euros? MORE PLEASE! we love despar now woo woo! after class, the entire group went to see a movie called la nostra vita at a genuine italian movie theater and it was a great experience. even though i didn't understand what was going on more than half of time, i did pick up some words and phrases and when it was over, understood the general plot and definitely liked the movie (i want to watch it again with subtitles! it really was a fantastic and beautiful movie). i CANNOT WAIT til i can sit through an italian movie and actually understand it...new goal. that night, ilaria made a noteworthy dinner of potato and onion frittata, homemade pesto (um delicious?) with pasta, bread, cheese, vegetables - the works. it was SO DELICIOUS. yay ilaria and italian cooking and italian movies! great day.
thursday, june 17
class, lunch, class. after class brianna and i hung out at the school for a little bit then ran into two guys from the program and grabbed gelato at this great little place near our school. after that, brianna and i sat at the bulldog inn, a pub near our school with FREE WIFI which is rare in rome. our waitress was a little strange and after being there for almost half an hour told us we had to order a drink to stay, which was fine because i wanted a caffe anyway. so i ordered an iced coffee, delicious. then she told brianna that she had to order something also, so brianna just said "i'll have the same thing". THIRTY MINUTES LATER the waitress brings brianna a drink that looks nothing like mine, in a much smaller glass that costs a euro more than mine...EXCUSE ME, WHAT???? only in rome...
so after that experience, brianna and i met up with professor biow's daughter simone (22 years old), his son david (12 years old) and his friend antonio (also 12 years old) ... weird mix, i know; don't judge ... and went to a great little restaurant for our own personal wine tasting accompanied by delicious bread and all kinds of italian cheeses (one smelled like feet, but it's va bene). it was a super fun experience and then i went home to pack for the weekend trip to pompeii, sorrento and napoli!
overall it was a seemingly uneventful but thoroughly enjoyable week in rome.
class was the same 'ol same 'ol but brianna and i grabbed lunch at despar, an italian chain supermarket, that is super cheap and super delicious! a heaping slice of potato and rosemary pizza for less than 2 euros? MORE PLEASE! we love despar now woo woo! after class, the entire group went to see a movie called la nostra vita at a genuine italian movie theater and it was a great experience. even though i didn't understand what was going on more than half of time, i did pick up some words and phrases and when it was over, understood the general plot and definitely liked the movie (i want to watch it again with subtitles! it really was a fantastic and beautiful movie). i CANNOT WAIT til i can sit through an italian movie and actually understand it...new goal. that night, ilaria made a noteworthy dinner of potato and onion frittata, homemade pesto (um delicious?) with pasta, bread, cheese, vegetables - the works. it was SO DELICIOUS. yay ilaria and italian cooking and italian movies! great day.
thursday, june 17
class, lunch, class. after class brianna and i hung out at the school for a little bit then ran into two guys from the program and grabbed gelato at this great little place near our school. after that, brianna and i sat at the bulldog inn, a pub near our school with FREE WIFI which is rare in rome. our waitress was a little strange and after being there for almost half an hour told us we had to order a drink to stay, which was fine because i wanted a caffe anyway. so i ordered an iced coffee, delicious. then she told brianna that she had to order something also, so brianna just said "i'll have the same thing". THIRTY MINUTES LATER the waitress brings brianna a drink that looks nothing like mine, in a much smaller glass that costs a euro more than mine...EXCUSE ME, WHAT???? only in rome...
so after that experience, brianna and i met up with professor biow's daughter simone (22 years old), his son david (12 years old) and his friend antonio (also 12 years old) ... weird mix, i know; don't judge ... and went to a great little restaurant for our own personal wine tasting accompanied by delicious bread and all kinds of italian cheeses (one smelled like feet, but it's va bene). it was a super fun experience and then i went home to pack for the weekend trip to pompeii, sorrento and napoli!
overall it was a seemingly uneventful but thoroughly enjoyable week in rome.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
il weekend!
overall, this was one of the best weekends of my LIFE but by many people's standards probably seems quite uneventful. but WHATEVS, i had a great great weekend and did some very roman things :) woo
friday, june 11
i literally hung out at home the entire day because there was supposedly a strike of bus and metro drivers happening that day (it wasn't until saturday that i found out the strike didn't actually happen but that's ok). my feet were KILLING me and i just had a great time hanging out with stefano's girlfriend, delia. we were both supposed to spend the day studying but ended up eating lunch together and making a pie for stefano's birthday! we actually had GREAT conversation (in italian!) about politics and education and family and life and it was just so so great. i didn't understand everything she said, but got the jist and was definitely able to hold my own and express my thoughts (even though to her i probably sounded like a 3rd grader...va bene). it was such a nice and relaxing day and we had a great dinner together (delia, me, ilaria and stefano). i made stefano 2 mix cd's and turns out he loves PEARL JAM, of all things...so awesome. so it was just great and then i watched some mad men and went to bed!
went to the beach at ostia with a group of people from the program. i'm not really a beach person but it was very fun. i napped on the beach, got some really intense sunburns, impressed my friends with saying words backwards and got the idea to youtube myself and maybe get invited to appear on ellen for my skills...maybe? thoughts? anyway, when i got home i took more naps, ate dinner and went to sleep. great day.
some of us at the beach!
friday, june 11
i literally hung out at home the entire day because there was supposedly a strike of bus and metro drivers happening that day (it wasn't until saturday that i found out the strike didn't actually happen but that's ok). my feet were KILLING me and i just had a great time hanging out with stefano's girlfriend, delia. we were both supposed to spend the day studying but ended up eating lunch together and making a pie for stefano's birthday! we actually had GREAT conversation (in italian!) about politics and education and family and life and it was just so so great. i didn't understand everything she said, but got the jist and was definitely able to hold my own and express my thoughts (even though to her i probably sounded like a 3rd grader...va bene). it was such a nice and relaxing day and we had a great dinner together (delia, me, ilaria and stefano). i made stefano 2 mix cd's and turns out he loves PEARL JAM, of all things...so awesome. so it was just great and then i watched some mad men and went to bed!
stefano and delia with the beautiful pie she and i made for his birthday!
saturday, june 12went to the beach at ostia with a group of people from the program. i'm not really a beach person but it was very fun. i napped on the beach, got some really intense sunburns, impressed my friends with saying words backwards and got the idea to youtube myself and maybe get invited to appear on ellen for my skills...maybe? thoughts? anyway, when i got home i took more naps, ate dinner and went to sleep. great day.
some of us at the beach!
sunday, june 13
sunday morning i woke up bright and early to shop at porta portese, a really intense market that is open every sunday morning in rome. it was SO INTENSE but i found some great, unique, italian things that i will cherish forever :) (um genuine, italian leather bag for 4 euros? yes please!) then i went around the markets near my house with brianna and we DUG in the used clothes piles (everything for 1 euro? YES PLEASE!) i got a shirt with a tiger on the front, a great silk top, a lime green sweater vest, and a silk button down! i then bought some flowers for ilaria from a great guy with a bird named obama (because his bird cage is white...witty, right? we thought so!). it was a great success of a day. great success of a weekend. woo rome!
sunday morning i woke up bright and early to shop at porta portese, a really intense market that is open every sunday morning in rome. it was SO INTENSE but i found some great, unique, italian things that i will cherish forever :) (um genuine, italian leather bag for 4 euros? yes please!) then i went around the markets near my house with brianna and we DUG in the used clothes piles (everything for 1 euro? YES PLEASE!) i got a shirt with a tiger on the front, a great silk top, a lime green sweater vest, and a silk button down! i then bought some flowers for ilaria from a great guy with a bird named obama (because his bird cage is white...witty, right? we thought so!). it was a great success of a day. great success of a weekend. woo rome!
churches galore
thursday, june 10
we started the day off at santa prassede, a medieval church containing one of the most extensive mosaic cycles still in tact in rome and one of the first showing the manipulation of images and figures common in antiquity for christian ends. it's a truly glorious church but placed very inconspicuously in an unassuming alley...such a commonality in rome! churches with beautiful mosiacs, frescoes, statues, oil paintings, architecture in the most (seemingly) random places...hmph. still loving it.
detail from the chapel of st. zeno in santa prassede
after santa prassede, we went to santa maria maggiore. before going into this AMAZING church, i recalled the name from my art history class in high school but i didn't remember specific details or what made it art historically significant...after being inside for less than a minute, it all came back to me. santa maria maggiore is arguably the most beautiful structure in the world...i know i say this all the time but wah i wish i could use words to describe this place! the exquisite details EVERYWHERE, all the way from the marble floor design up to the intricately designed, beautiful coffered ceiling, everything in this place is breathtakingly beautiful. it would take a couple days to really SEE and experience all of the details in santa maria maggiore and i would really like to go back there while i'm in rome. being jewish limits my ability to make deep spiritual connections in all of these churches, but i definitely experienced the closest thing i'll get to a "spiritual" experience while standing in santa maria maggiore. what a gem. i think my favorite part about santa maria maggiore (kind of like my favorite aspect of san clemente) is how many centuries of art and artists and art historical movements are represented there. it's just such a special and well preserved space that represents so many important and beautiful and different and widespread time periods, that are somehow united in this architectural space that is just breathtaking. hmmm just google image it and i'm sure you'll be blown away. my pictures don't give it justice (especially because my camera was acting up that day) but it's va bene (my new favorite expression!). what an experience...
so after santa maria maggiore, we went to another beautiful church called santa prudenziana, one of the least visited churches in rome (unfortunately!). it is also representative of many periods of art history and has an incredible history that is studied very closely by scholars all year round. in one of the side chapels of the church are FORTY different kinds of marble used for various purposes all over...WHATTTTTTT?? nothing like that exists anywhere else in the world...jaw-dropping. there's a man that works there year-round and he was so helpful to our class and called me a "scholar", which although grossly overstated my rudimentary understanding of art history, was very flattering :)
so after the church tour, brianna and i grabbed lunch at this great panetteria (bread shop) and ate (in the hot sun) outside of it on the side of the street near the churches. it was DELICIOUS and definitely an experience worth repeating!
after lunch, brianna and i ran to class and hung out at the school for the rest of the afternoon until we walked together to a dinner with the program participants and their italian families in trastervere (area across the tiber river). ilaria, martina and stefano all came which was AMAZING! i love them so so so much :) it was even better because it was stefano's birthday so it actually meant that much more because he came to have dinner for, yours truly. we sat and talked after dinner for some time and i then went to see the colosseum at night with brianna and some other girls from the program...BEST IDEA EVER. it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL at night and although we were acting crazy and i know people were judging us, we had an absolute blast and i'm so glad i got to experience it.
we started the day off at santa prassede, a medieval church containing one of the most extensive mosaic cycles still in tact in rome and one of the first showing the manipulation of images and figures common in antiquity for christian ends. it's a truly glorious church but placed very inconspicuously in an unassuming alley...such a commonality in rome! churches with beautiful mosiacs, frescoes, statues, oil paintings, architecture in the most (seemingly) random places...hmph. still loving it.
detail from the chapel of st. zeno in santa prassede
after santa prassede, we went to santa maria maggiore. before going into this AMAZING church, i recalled the name from my art history class in high school but i didn't remember specific details or what made it art historically significant...after being inside for less than a minute, it all came back to me. santa maria maggiore is arguably the most beautiful structure in the world...i know i say this all the time but wah i wish i could use words to describe this place! the exquisite details EVERYWHERE, all the way from the marble floor design up to the intricately designed, beautiful coffered ceiling, everything in this place is breathtakingly beautiful. it would take a couple days to really SEE and experience all of the details in santa maria maggiore and i would really like to go back there while i'm in rome. being jewish limits my ability to make deep spiritual connections in all of these churches, but i definitely experienced the closest thing i'll get to a "spiritual" experience while standing in santa maria maggiore. what a gem. i think my favorite part about santa maria maggiore (kind of like my favorite aspect of san clemente) is how many centuries of art and artists and art historical movements are represented there. it's just such a special and well preserved space that represents so many important and beautiful and different and widespread time periods, that are somehow united in this architectural space that is just breathtaking. hmmm just google image it and i'm sure you'll be blown away. my pictures don't give it justice (especially because my camera was acting up that day) but it's va bene (my new favorite expression!). what an experience...
so after santa maria maggiore, we went to another beautiful church called santa prudenziana, one of the least visited churches in rome (unfortunately!). it is also representative of many periods of art history and has an incredible history that is studied very closely by scholars all year round. in one of the side chapels of the church are FORTY different kinds of marble used for various purposes all over...WHATTTTTTT?? nothing like that exists anywhere else in the world...jaw-dropping. there's a man that works there year-round and he was so helpful to our class and called me a "scholar", which although grossly overstated my rudimentary understanding of art history, was very flattering :)so after the church tour, brianna and i grabbed lunch at this great panetteria (bread shop) and ate (in the hot sun) outside of it on the side of the street near the churches. it was DELICIOUS and definitely an experience worth repeating!
after lunch, brianna and i ran to class and hung out at the school for the rest of the afternoon until we walked together to a dinner with the program participants and their italian families in trastervere (area across the tiber river). ilaria, martina and stefano all came which was AMAZING! i love them so so so much :) it was even better because it was stefano's birthday so it actually meant that much more because he came to have dinner for, yours truly. we sat and talked after dinner for some time and i then went to see the colosseum at night with brianna and some other girls from the program...BEST IDEA EVER. it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL at night and although we were acting crazy and i know people were judging us, we had an absolute blast and i'm so glad i got to experience it.
sorry i just had to throw this one in there haha
brianna and olivia being those girls
overall, one of the best days here so far!
brianna and olivia being those girlsoverall, one of the best days here so far!
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