To start off the official weekend, Ashley and I took the time to walk up the hill to the supermarket to buy groceries for the week so we could attempt to save money for the other weekend trips and of course for shopping. We started the trek and realized that were going to have to walk slowly and take a few breaks along the way because our bodies were so tired and our feet were killing us from the previous 2 days of extreme walking through Rome. We finally made...

Today was the first day that we were able to go and run around Rome without any of our "tour guides". Even though we had a scavenger hunt to complete it really didn't feel like a Friday at all, because we had to run around and find all of these specific locations- we all started to get really frustrated and mad at one another. For the most part, we had researched all of the locations that we needed to find but for some reason a couple of them were harder to fi...

Well today was our first big day in Rome, we literally walked all over Rome. We started out in the morning by waking up and catching the 8:20 am train from Albano to Rome, it was crutial that we make it to the 8:20 train because for some random reason they don't have another train coming through until 10:20. Once we walked to the train station we went to validate our train tickets so we don't get in trouble of any have to pay fines—they suck. Well the machine...

Today we had to wake up earlier than normal to make it to the bus on time or we would be left at the palace for our field trip on our first day in Rome. For the field trip today, we started out the day with a visit to the catacombs of St. Sebastian. During the tour of the catacombs, if you can imagine 23 American girls walking through small dirt trails surrounded by ancient graves—it was pretty interesting. Most of the girls that were in the group didn't real...

Tuesday May 17th: Today we had our very first quiz of the summer semester; it covered the Italian culture and the many (mostly confusing) ways of the public transportation. After we had our quiz we then started in to another long day of class. We began with a Roman Architecture lecture from Prof.Francesco Petruci. This was actually very interesting to listen to. After we had class we were left for a break which was 4 hours for lunch, in Italy lunch takes anywhe...