next day woke up early to head out to the tours and such. wanted to hit the forum and the colosseum during the day, as well as the sistine chapel back up at the vatican. met a few people at the kapital for a bit and took off to see some good stuff. antonio and i split from the group and started exploring the forum. so amazing. these buildings are so dang old its ridiculous. also attempted to explore an old tower that looked pretty interesting from the ground up. we snuck inside some building, past security, and searched thru the building to find the entrance to the tower. we felt pretty awesome for a while, sneaking around and running away from people working there. in the end, we found nothing. but pretty funny nonetheless. hit the colosseam afterwards, which was pretty dope. so many massive battles took place there. destruction and death to max. its crazy that type of "fun" event was allowed back then. haha. not anymore thats for sure. at this point we were planning to head to the sistine chapel. got a text from one of our teaching assistants, saying that we needed to head to the museum again for a presentation with zaha now. wtf. we just presented yesterday! the text said to be there in a half hour. screw that! our group, which only consisted of moritz and i at the time, along with a few others, decided it wasnt worth going to. zaha doesnt care about our work anyways....
so we went to the vatican, while others rushed off to make zaha happy. the sistine was worth it though. michaelangelo is nuts. just a crazy painter painting nonstop on every wall of every room. oh ya, and rafael. i love that they named the ninja turtles after these dudes. so funny. spent a lot of time there, and of course, got into some religious talk w/moritz while staring up at the sistine ceiling. what else would come up, right? i mean, all the paintings basically explain where we came from according to the bible, along with other great stories. why not talk about what it all really means.
got a text afterwards from sarah...said the reviews went ehhh...alright. of course! apparently zaha didnt like anything really and didnt agree with the project brief all that much. wow, she is really involved in the class. or not..zaha did, however, invite everyone to dinner afterwards, and that's what sarah told me about. sooooo, what do we do? show up for dinner, of course. rushed over to piazza del popillo and walked in the restaurant all calm and cool it no big deal we missed the review. haha. everyone was already there, sitting down, all quite. we just stood there, akward as can be. the servers found us some extra chairs and we sat down quitely, explaining that we were "inside the vatican and couldnt leave"....or something. zaha didnt even notice we had entered. she was too busy staring at patrick and eating bread or something. but i sat in a spot that was directly in zaha's line of sight, so everytime i looked up towards the front of the restaurant, it would appear that zaha was checking me out. i mean, i dont want to brag, but im a pretty sexy guy. i cant help it if zaha likes what she sees, right? :) actually, she was probably trying to figure out who i was and why i was eating food that she was about to pay for. haha. but in the end we did get a free meal from zaha. so that was cool.
after that our whole class went out a grabbed some beers and sat on the spanish steps for a while. i, of course, purchased another toy from some italian guy selling randomness. this time it was a stretchy little thing that had a face on it. it was like a litte stretchy man. good price. 40 cents! boom. four other people bought them too so i didnt feel completely retarded. good times kickin it out there with everyone. what an awesome experience. sitting w/people from all over the world, on the spanish steps in rome, having a beer, and playing with a stretchy man thing. PERFECTO.
after a few of us went back to the little bar/cafe covered with vines. along the way, i got into an awesome convo about religion and other intersting stuff with my friend saara from finland. it turned into a 2 hr convo outside this little cafe. pretty cool to see people's point of view on different things in life and have the opportunity to explain where im at on faith, religion, life, etc.
later on it was time for moritz and i to prepare for our roadtrip back. it was going to be me, moritz and clemens, who joined us last minute since we had extra space in the car. (see, pavel bailed out on us because he wanted to do a competition in rome for a couple extra days...and by competition i mean architecture. and mark bailed out even before we left vienna...so there were two seats available on the way back...). but anyways, we went back to the hostel to print some maps to siena and some other villages. got to the computer and some dude was sitting there watching a movie..seriously? watching a movie at 2 am in a stinky hostel? stupid. we asked him how long he would be, and he said one hour. what? i think not. we immediately removed him from the room...no not really. but we told him we would be like ten mins, so he let us on. but the printer didnt work and the internet was slow, so that turned into a half hour. then all of a sudden the mouse stopped working, and we gave up and peaced out. haha. unfortunately the guy could no longer use the computer since the mouse wasnt working. we felt kind bad rolling in there, getting nothing accomplished, and then ruining his precious movie. ah well. THIS IS THE END OF ROME! we were getting up early the next day to take off for siena. roadtrip action on its way! no time limit, no plan, no worries...just how it should be!
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