Today was a very chill day spent in preparation for Barcelona this weekend. We woke up, ate lunch, and headed to the school to book tours in Barcelona and print both those vouchers and our boarding passes (we don't have a printer in our apartment). Cinema class was spent discussing the movies from the week, and then in place of Daily Life the class was going to visit a synagogue after rescheduling from the original plan of going Monday. Unfortunately because it...

Today was along day. After getting home so late last night our whole sleep schedule was out of whack - I didn't get out of bed until 12:30 and we have class at 1:45. We watched a strange movie in Cinema (Facing Windows) about an old man with Alzheimer's and a couple that falls in love after spying on each other through the windows in their apartments that face each other - so strange. We then went on a tour of the Imperial Fora and Capitoline Museums which was su...

Today was an absolute blast! It was Laurel's birthday, so when we woke up in the morning, we tried to come up with something cool and fun to do with our morning before class. We were going to go to the zoo since we didn't get to last week, but after finding out where it actually was we realized it was far away, and directly next to where we were having to go in the afternoon for our tour of the Borghese Galley which was far enough away for them to supply us with ...

I swear Italy is getting hotter by the hour. It's getting to the point where I can take an ice cold shower, and the second I step out and dry off, I begin dripping sweat again - this is crazy. I thought I would have adjusted to not having AC by now but I was definitely wrong. Also, that huge outdoor staircase I mentioned before that we have to walk up every day to get to school? Well Laurel counted the steps today: 123. 123 steps outside in the blazing heat in th...

After coming home and decompressing from all the travelling, I got ready to go to dinner with my friend Dana who is studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain, who was in Rome for the weekend. My roommates were not feeling too good, so my only options were to not see her, or wander to meet her alone. I decided to venture on my own to the Hard Rock to meet her for dinner. It doesn't get dark here in Rome until about 9:30, and I was meeting her at 8, so I was still in p...