met the whole crew at the vatican. got a tour from
a guy that only speaks german. completely
unhelpful. st peters square is pretty much amazing.
and the church is even more amazing. the scale is
so huge its incredible. at this point in the tour
we ditched the german and went on our own tour thru
the building. it was great. a group of us explored
every little area, even the dome. we climbed up
there and saw the entire city of rome, and the
vatican city that surrounded us. yesssss. it will
be the best panoramic picture ever. not only that
but pavel, the russian, all of a sudden became a
model. he kept asking me to take pictures of him
overlooking the city while he posed in "serious
model poses"....haha.
and exploring the city was great after that. i
couldnt imagine any place i would have rather been.
walking thru amazing cobblestone streets (all
streets here are cobble) with little flats up above
and shutters opening up with clothes lines coming
out of them. down on the street are little
pizzerias and gelato stores everywhere (and of
course, i got three scoops immediately). and
everyone is say grazie and ciao all of a sudden
instead of danke and tschuss. thaaaats getting
confusing. explored some more. ran into the
PANTHEON. no big deal. oh hi, pantheon. its pretty
amazing to see some of the greatest architectural
works that exist in the world. us architects get a
little excited about all that :)
tried my first real italian pizza tonight. with
salami. its really good, but im not sure how i feel
about the ultra thin crispy crust. its so thin, its
like a cracker. which is fine, but i could probably
eat a second pizza. and the wine....oh the wine. i
think people here drink wine more than water. like
wine is flowing in the local river or something. im
okay with that...so by this time mortiz, pavel and
i were completely exhausted. we only had a couple
hrs sleep from the drive the night before and the
wine and pizza was making us crash. moritz fell
asleep at the dinner table. but we roamed around
some more after dinner, saw a few more interesting
buildings, including the colesseum and the forum.
no big deal. had a little more wine with the group
as we toured around and explored. contemplated life
back in the ancient times for a while. couldn't
help it as i was walking thru ancient history in
every direction i took.
by 9 pm we were dead tired. so we went back to the
hostel for a nap, hoping to get back up and run
around the city later than night. woke up at 11.
considered going back to sleep. but rallied and
woke up moritz. the russian wasn't moving. he was
unwilling to rally. so he passed back out, and we
met up with some of the class. walked for a
while..met up with more of the class...walked
again...lost some of the class...walked a little
farther...found more of the class in a college area
of rome. tons of bars and cafes and
restaurants...and young people. there's a courtyard
in the middle of it all where people just kick it
outside and have drinks and talk. we all went
there. eventually our whole studio was there (about
50 people) just having a good time. it was
AWESOME. so much fun goofing off with a bunch of
random people from our class. not to mention
screwing with the italians there was sell random
items that ALMOST nobody needs. except for me, of
course. one of my friends in class bought a head
massager from one of the sellers.....and it was the
most amazing thing ive ever experienced. and only 2
euros! i had to have one. so i did. ahhhh. amazing.
(but later pavel loved it so much that he stole
it...i think). so we were out till about 4 running
around thru that area...and peeing on a random
street every now and then. my friend saara had to
pee so much that we had to coin on of the streets
"pee street". it was a perfect spot. no one around,
lots of cars to hide in between, dark and
spooky....PERFECT! see, in italy, cafes don't
really like it when you pee in their restrooms, if
they have one at all. if they do, they will
probably charge you. i think they want people to
pee on the street. and everyone does, because in
many places in rome, everything just smells like
pee...kind of like our room...hmmmmmm.
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