Rome

I am not captioning pictures but I will definitely tell about my grand adventure. My family left for Pescara on Thursday so I got to sleep in before class (8am). I cleaned up around the house before I left and took my bags with me. I went to class it was another really long 2 hour game of what the hell is going on but whatever. Then I grabbed a quick bite with my classmates and caught the metro to the train and rode the train to Rome. Its going to sound weird but even the landscape just looks completely different.

So a long train ride later I was at the central station in Rome. From there I caught the subway to a stop where I met Heather. I had never met or seen her before so it was another mini-adventure. The theme of this experience seems to be that I go somewhere and meet someone I have never met before.


We met up and of course started out my trip to Rome with a gelato. We talked about what are lives are like and it was great. because I could say things like "no dice" and she understood. Also she has been here for 4 months doing the au pair thing so that was great for tips too. Heather is the one on the far right and a friend she met on the train named Amanda is in the middle of the picture. Friday night she had to babysit so we hung out in another one of those nice apartments in Rome this time. She taught me how to play a new card game called Barooco. It's a lot of detailed stuff but fun enough. Oh yeah and by the way she's one of 5 kids and an Education major graduate.

Anyways so we did not really see anything that night we went out on Saturday and i'm positive it was completely different from any other tourist experience ever. Friends of Heather's, Emilio, he is Italian and Amanda met up with us. We just kind of wandered and saw so much. I threw my 1 euro cent in the Trevi fountain and saw the Pantheon, Colloseum, Spanish steps, and the capital building. I'm sure there is more but it is hard to list it all off the top of my head. But it was great because I just got to wander and see things at my own pace. There was no pressure to rush we just saw what we saw. At one point there was a drum circle in the middle of a side road, so of course we stopped and hung out. The people I was with were big hippies. It was so much fun.

We picked up a couple bottles of wine on our way to dinner and shared the whole way there. For diner we ate pizza at a place started by a man from Naples (the birthplace of pizza) with ingredients all from Naples. Of course we had pizza, wine, fried rice balls and lemoncello. It was another four hour dinner; it was perfect. After dinner we went to a bar for a few quick drinks en route to other things and ended up staying until like 3 am. Then Heather and I made our way home. All and all it was a great day. I listened to a lot of Italian and even picked up some new words. Yeah! Then Sunday Heather and I saw a few more sights and I headed home.

But on to today briefly... It's not as exciting but Alice and I had a good day. She only cried for a very brief moment until Francesca came home and then she of course cried a lot. We went to the park and played and played and played. Oh yeah and all weekend Alice apparently kept asking where I was, so with the new words I have learned and all. I seem to be moving in the right direction.


P.S. this huge ass gelato is what happens when you joke with cute Italian boys. It was about twice the size of everybody else's and I could not even finish it.