Rome (ing)

Today my Italian class watched a Fellini film (I Vitelloni) for the cultural section and then we went to our teacher's house to have lunch! The other Italian class is jealous of us because everyone loves Claudia (our teacher). She's cool, hip and nice. She made us lasagna and wine was brought. Her apartment is baller. She lofted her be d to make more room and has lots of eclectic pictures and furniture. Her place seemed like a perfect expression of her personality.

It's starting to get warm here too. SPRING IS UPON US.

Rome was interesting! It didn't feel like Italy at all and was pretty metropolitan. The subways were just as crowded as New York but had interesting graffiti all over. I went with three friends, and met 2 others when we got there. The bus was comfortable and only took about three hours from Siena. The buses have huge windows so it's nice to just look out on the rolling hills/ sheep/ green land. The Sunday there was the Giornata Della Donna in Italy so admission to the Forum was gratis (free) for all women (woooo). There were a lot of tourists and I can't imagine what it's like during May and June, probably what carnivale was like. For some reason I can tolerate tourists in NYC but in Rome it was a little too much. All in all it was fun. Here are some pictures.

academia

Sistine Chapel

Piazza Basilica

Pieta with dramtic lighting

Rome has so many great ceilings but it hurts your neck after awhile

In the huge basilica

More dramatic lighting

We sat here for awhile

Fontana Trevi at night

Pantheon- so geometric

Colosseum

vicino forum

anche questo

sitting on ancient ruins

Finito

This weekend is Maremma with the school. I hear they have great parks with horses and wild boar a-roaming.