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Woke up before the alarm today! Although my legs are hurting from all the walking. We had our full 4 hours of class. It went a lot better than I expected. Even though I totally don't understand everything, I think I'm starting to get into the mindset of learning a language. You just get into a zone of hearing the Italian. All I know is that there are very few connections between English and Italian. The first 2 hours seemed like vocabulary and the last 2 hours was grammar. I totally got the grammar part. We are also working in a workbook. That will be fun to show my students. This course is a lot of work, but it is totally worth it. I love the idea of learning Italian in Italy! Next we are going back to the Colosseum to take more pictures and go inside. We need to avoid any huge public squares because there are going to be some demonstrations against the G8 Summit being held here in Rome. Interesting.
Jeremy and I just ventured on our own for lunch! Actually we went to the same place we went yesterday, but Jeremy ordered. I think I could eat prosciutto and bread every day! Now on to the Colosseum!
What a night! I am so tired from all the walking! First we went back to the Colosseum as a group so we could go into it. Thankfully our guide had told us to buy tickets other than at the Colosseum. So we first explored the grounds of temples. I pulled out Floyd to take lots of pictures. Floyd is my traveling chipmunk that goes between the classrooms of my group of friends. At first there were a lot of questions by the group. But by the end a lot them were holding him and giving me suggestions. I'm very excited to teach about ancient Rome next year in my classroom. We walked around the ruins for quite a while. It was hard walking on the stones, especially i the shoes I was wearing. Then we walked down to the Colosseum. We were all very excited. Once inside, it was amazing! It was so cool to be inside a building that is as old as that. We all had so much fun taking tons of pictures! By the end we were all exhausted from the sun and all the walking. Some of us bought 20 postcards for 1 Euro, which is an awesome deal. they aren't the greatest postcards, but they are something! Maybe I should get a pack for my classroom! We tried getting back into the ruins to see where Saints Peter and Paul were jailed, but tickets only work at each entrance only once. Bummer. So we decided to go back to the school early to rest and relax before our evening at a typical pizzeria. Oh my goodness! I ate so much food. First we walked through the University of Rome to get to the pizzeria. From the sounds of it, this pizzeria was on the "State Street" of Rome - many many college/university students hang out there. After all the walking we had done that day, it was very hard walking to the pizzeria. Jeremy looked it up, we were closer to the Colosseum than we were to our flat. The pizzeria was called Formula 1, like car racing. Jeremy said it reminded him of a VFW, it reminded my of a bar. Enzo, the director of the school ordered us the appetizers. We had: deep fried olives with meat (amazing), deep fried cod (good, but too much breading), burschettta (so so so so good!), and deep fried zucchini flowers with cheese (I think he said there were anchovies in it, otherwise good). We were all completely full after that. But then we all ordered a pizza. We didn't know how we were going to eat that. I ordered the margherita pizza. It was so fresh tasting. I also had an Italian beer, Moretti. It was really good with the pizza. I actually ate 3/4 of my pizza. How that happened, I don't know! :-) We sat and ate for a long time. We were all getting pretty over tired and giddy. When some of the guys ordered another small beer, they brought out these teeny little beer mugs. We all were cracking up because of the size. When we got to the pizzeria it was pretty empty, but by the time we left, all the tables were full. Then Enzo said it was a short walk to the gelato factory he wanted to take us to. It wasn't quite a short walk to us! We walked all the way to the Termini. We really weren't too happy. Once we got to the gelato factory though, we were a little happier (At least I was). I couldn't believe how busy the place was at 10:00pm! A huge line. We could order up to 3 flavors. I chose a refreshing lemon and strawberry. That went down so easily. By this time of the night we were all walking zombies. And to make matters worse, there was a Metro strike going on! We didn't know if we were going to have to walk all the way back. Thankfully we didn't have to, we could take the Metro. What a long and memorable day.
Jeremy and I just ventured on our own for lunch! Actually we went to the same place we went yesterday, but Jeremy ordered. I think I could eat prosciutto and bread every day! Now on to the Colosseum!
What a night! I am so tired from all the walking! First we went back to the Colosseum as a group so we could go into it. Thankfully our guide had told us to buy tickets other than at the Colosseum. So we first explored the grounds of temples. I pulled out Floyd to take lots of pictures. Floyd is my traveling chipmunk that goes between the classrooms of my group of friends. At first there were a lot of questions by the group. But by the end a lot them were holding him and giving me suggestions. I'm very excited to teach about ancient Rome next year in my classroom. We walked around the ruins for quite a while. It was hard walking on the stones, especially i the shoes I was wearing. Then we walked down to the Colosseum. We were all very excited. Once inside, it was amazing! It was so cool to be inside a building that is as old as that. We all had so much fun taking tons of pictures! By the end we were all exhausted from the sun and all the walking. Some of us bought 20 postcards for 1 Euro, which is an awesome deal. they aren't the greatest postcards, but they are something! Maybe I should get a pack for my classroom! We tried getting back into the ruins to see where Saints Peter and Paul were jailed, but tickets only work at each entrance only once. Bummer. So we decided to go back to the school early to rest and relax before our evening at a typical pizzeria. Oh my goodness! I ate so much food. First we walked through the University of Rome to get to the pizzeria. From the sounds of it, this pizzeria was on the "State Street" of Rome - many many college/university students hang out there. After all the walking we had done that day, it was very hard walking to the pizzeria. Jeremy looked it up, we were closer to the Colosseum than we were to our flat. The pizzeria was called Formula 1, like car racing. Jeremy said it reminded him of a VFW, it reminded my of a bar. Enzo, the director of the school ordered us the appetizers. We had: deep fried olives with meat (amazing), deep fried cod (good, but too much breading), burschettta (so so so so good!), and deep fried zucchini flowers with cheese (I think he said there were anchovies in it, otherwise good). We were all completely full after that. But then we all ordered a pizza. We didn't know how we were going to eat that. I ordered the margherita pizza. It was so fresh tasting. I also had an Italian beer, Moretti. It was really good with the pizza. I actually ate 3/4 of my pizza. How that happened, I don't know! :-) We sat and ate for a long time. We were all getting pretty over tired and giddy. When some of the guys ordered another small beer, they brought out these teeny little beer mugs. We all were cracking up because of the size. When we got to the pizzeria it was pretty empty, but by the time we left, all the tables were full. Then Enzo said it was a short walk to the gelato factory he wanted to take us to. It wasn't quite a short walk to us! We walked all the way to the Termini. We really weren't too happy. Once we got to the gelato factory though, we were a little happier (At least I was). I couldn't believe how busy the place was at 10:00pm! A huge line. We could order up to 3 flavors. I chose a refreshing lemon and strawberry. That went down so easily. By this time of the night we were all walking zombies. And to make matters worse, there was a Metro strike going on! We didn't know if we were going to have to walk all the way back. Thankfully we didn't have to, we could take the Metro. What a long and memorable day.
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