Monday May 23rd: Today was the start of week three for us all inItaly. We didn't really have much planned for classes today so we hadthe opportunity to go and visit the local elementary and high schoolsin Ariccia/Albano. We started the day out by walking up the dreadfulhill past the super market to the elementary school where theyperformed for us the routine they are performing for the 150anniversary of their country. It was absolutely precious. After wevisited t...

W were all really tired from the running around Rome and everything from the past few days so we mostly stayed in the palace today and worked on homework that we have been putting off all the time. A few of us went to the lake to lay out in the sun for a couple of hours. The weekends are mostly our time to catch up on everything we put off till the last minute during the week, guess it just hasn't sunk in yet that we are actually in school here for the entire ...

To start off the official weekend, Ashley and I took the time to walk up the hill to the supermarket to buy groceries for the week so we could attempt to save money for the other weekend trips and of course for shopping. We started the trek and realized that were going to have to walk slowly and take a few breaks along the way because our bodies were so tired and our feet were killing us from the previous 2 days of extreme walking through Rome. We finally made...

Today was the first day that we were able to go and run around Rome without any of our "tour guides". Even though we had a scavenger hunt to complete it really didn't feel like a Friday at all, because we had to run around and find all of these specific locations- we all started to get really frustrated and mad at one another. For the most part, we had researched all of the locations that we needed to find but for some reason a couple of them were harder to fi...

Well today was our first big day in Rome, we literally walked all over Rome. We started out in the morning by waking up and catching the 8:20 am train from Albano to Rome, it was crutial that we make it to the 8:20 train because for some random reason they don't have another train coming through until 10:20. Once we walked to the train station we went to validate our train tickets so we don't get in trouble of any have to pay fines—they suck. Well the machine...