Love with Rome, love with the culture, love with my classes (most of them), love with my new friends and love with EVERYTHING I have done so far.
This week Wednesday we had the Mass of the Holy Spirit for the JFRC and had a great dinner near Piazza Navona with fifty of my nearest friends. We then went out and celebrated the fact that it was, umm Wednesday.
Friday some friends and I took a cab down to the Capuchin Crypts which were wierd, as they are decorated with bones from Monks over hundreds of years, that were then organized to be decorative a few hundred years ago. All I know, it is was odd, and beautiful at the same time. Then we did some serious shopping on Via Del Corso, walked around Rome by the Tiber, and ended up with some sore feet, but some really nice new Maroon Suede Loafers, you know, the ones I bought in Rome. (check out my tagged photos)
Friday night we went to Trastevere for the first time and had a nice time hearing all about the places all of the full year students kept telling us about, had a simple night and prepared for our trip to Ortvieto the next day.
Our train was at 9 am, so we got there, and I took my first European train ride, to Orvieto, when we got there, there was a Funicular that took us up to the main part of the city. The views from this cliffside town were amazing over the hills around the city. It was nice to walk around in just a group of 4 looking around the city. I had the best expresso (cafe, duh), climbed through a random tunnel in some crypt below a church, you know, normal stuff.
We had lunch in an old grotto/old rope making factory where I had amazing ravioli with truffles and ricotta cheese, had wine, bought wine, and made our way back to the train. We got home and had pastries from the "secret bakery" and officially named the day TREAT YOURSELF.
Now, I have to do some homework and laundry, all of the fun things that makes the really fun things possible.
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