Today was my birthday!!!! For class we went to the Borghese Gallery which was cool! THen we made dinner at home, popped open some wine and my roomates suprised me with a cake, card, and chocolates! We laughed and ate then went over to another apartment of girls in our group to meet up with the other birthday girl, CeCe! She was turning 20 as well, go figure! About 12 of us all hung out there for a while then took the tram to Piazza Venezia and met up with everyon...

Today I spent the morning wandering Rome alone before heading to class. I walked in and out of several shops, deciding italian fashion isnt really for me, then found a really cool bookstore! It was so funny seeing 50 Shades of Grey, The Help, Bridget Jones, the Sisterhood fo the Traveling Pants, all of Dan Browns novels, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone! I also stumbled upon the travel section and was happy to see several books about florida, each of ...

Monday and today were both days of recovering from our very full Parisian weekend. We are so lucky to be young and healthy and were able to push ourselves past our limits to see as much of Paris as we could, but it definitely caught up with us these past few days! Everyone is trying to maintain their health, and we stayed in and coked our own meals. Tonight we set up my computer with speakers we found in our apartment and watched Moulin Rouge, trying to prolong...

Today we headed back to Rome and after such a busy weekend we spent the day relaxing in our apartment. For dinner we met up with Radhika again who was now in Rome but about to leave for Capri and Athens! Smarg's mom joined us as well! We were happy to find a good restaurant in Trastevere without having to cross the bridge, thanks mom for the recommendation! Before calling it a night we went to a chocolate and wine bar where the shots were in edible chocolate glas...

Today for our Ancient Rome class we toured the Forum! Unlike yesterday we all successfully made it there on time, hooray! However it was raining again the whole time, but we didn't melt. We cooked ourselves lunch and dinner tonight when we got home. Then Jackie and smargs had an exam to study for so Carla and I went exploring Rome, which was interesting. After being aggressively approached by scary Italian men and street vendors speaking in broken English we stu...