Rome=The Ancient City

Oh Roma, how much I love you. Even for the third time, you still cease to amaze me. After being there when Pope John Paul II passed away in the Spring of 2009 with my family and then again for New Years in 2007 with my Latin Class, Rome delights me with all of its glorious sites, delicious foods, and diverse crowds of people. Since so much has happened during this busy but exciting week of traveling, I will try to tell you all of the highlights but don’t expect me to go into much detail like in my past journal entries.
Leaving Freiburg and arriving in Rome on Thursday, we only had a few things planned. After checking into our hotel, we had our first meeting with a teacher from IES Rome that was to talk to us about Italy and its repelling relationship with the European Union (He also spoke about the powerful but dirty Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.) On our way we stopped at the Ponte Sant'Angelo for a photo op.
After the meeting we walked up one of the seven hill of Rome to get a nice vew of the city before the sun went down. On our way to the Pallatine hill, we passed the famous Roman Forum the Coliseum.
The next two days I spent my time wandering through the many piazzas (i.e. Piazza di Spagne, Piazza di Trevi, and Piazza Navona), eating pizza, pasta, gelato, and drinking wonderful house wines from morning to nightfall. Oh, and don't worry Grandma, I did make it to the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel for the Sunday I was there. Gratzi Roma!

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