It was a slow morning today. I stayed around the hotel and caught up on a few things (blogs and pictures for one). In the afternoon, we went to lunch while Kayla and Victoria waited for their laundry to finish. I split up from the group because I still had some studying to do, but I stopped at the ATM on my way back and then got a tiramisu gelato. I had Italian at 4:30 again and we went over the test from yesterday. I got a B- because of the curve, but I defin...

This morning we met in the lobby around 8 o'clock for our trip to the Senate building. This tour was more formal than the others we had taken. The guys were required to wear ties and jackets, not an easy feat in the ninety-degree weather, especially when we were packed in the bus on the way there. The senate is a beautiful building. We were able to see where the senators work every day and the actual chamber was a lot like the House of Representatives in Washi...

My roommate and I slept until one o'clock this afternoon. With our sunroof blinds closed, it is dark as night in our room, even at noon, which makes it easy to sleep the day away. I think I want to get those for my room, but then I would never wake up in time for class. At four o'clock, we had a tour with our art history class. We were meeting at the Piazza della Minerva, so I checked the map to figure out how to get there. The route looked fairly simple, but ...

Today has been a pretty relaxed day. I had class in the morning and I spent the early afternoon studying with some friends in the courtyard and then on my own while they went to get something to eat. I ordered a hot nutella sandwich from the hotel cafe for dinner and it was delicious. The waiters there are so nice and are always joking around with us. One of them even sings Lady Gaga songs on occasion. Around 8 or 9 I met up with friends to go out for the nigh...

I woke up around 5:45 this morning and was at breakfast by 6:15. After breakfast, we got on the bus for a three-hour drive to Pompeii. I slept almost all the way there. The ruins of Pompeii span an enormous area, so we were only able to cover a small portion of them. We saw some of the homes and businesses, the laundry, the public restroom, where business was conducted (more than one kind of business apparently), and the brothel, which still had the remnants o...