Classes in Full Swing

Ahhh sorry it's taken so long....  last week was boring (literally just went to classes and hung out around campus) and this week has been crazy.  Sooo here goes.   So last week I had classes all week, and I feel like I always have some reading to get done but that's alright, at least it's interesting.  Thursday night classes were finally over and so we decided to go out for gelato (because come on, what can gelato NOT fix...).  Then we just walked around Piazza Cavour and Piazza Navonna for a little bit.  Walking around the city at night is gorgeous.  It's almost like a completely different world than the city during the day. 

 Tierney and me (She didn't come with us, somehow I just run into her everywhere)

 Anne, Lauren, Christine, Me

 Me, Christine, Lauren, Anne

 Me and Anne

 Anne and Me

So basically Thursday we went downtown for gelato and then took a bunch of selfies..... but that's okay!!!  It was a lot of fun.   Friday we went down to the Pantheon.  I don't have a lot of pictures of people from that day, we weren't there for too long (it's really cool to see, but it isn't like there's a ton to do).  It was Anne, Christine, Lauren, Hannah, Carly, Aaron, and me (I think that's it... I might be missing someone though).

This one is courtesy of Christine:  No idea why she took it but it was at the Pantheon!

It really is just a gorgeous building.  But that was pretty much it for the weekend...  Friday night we had a movie night (kind of).  We were supposed to be watching 2001 Space Odyssey, but mostly Christine, Lauren, Anne, and I did our nails while we complained at Aaron about how bad of a choice in movie he had.  Saturday was a pretty relaxed day.  Anne, Aaron and I took the bus down to Piazza Cavour and just chilled out there and got some reading done for class.  It was nice to get off campus for a bit, but we all felt overwhelmed with homework still so it was a really good way to do it.  That was pretty much it...  it was a really laid back week.  As for this week, not so much.  Monday classes started up again and we all finished catching up on our homework.  Tuesday was my first day tutoring!!!   The woman that I'll be working with seems really nice, and we just sat there for an hour and talked about a little bit of everything.  I'm not quite sure how I'm going to "tutor" her because really her English is very good, but I'll figure it out.  I'm meeting with her again on Thursday this week.  Wednesday we woke up and left campus at 6am for the papal audience! 

Anne was a little tired

We were told you had to leave early for good seats, which was definitely true.  We were right on one of the barriers which means he rode right by us, but there were tens of thousands of people there.

  I took a video instead of pictures, I'll go through and screenshot some good pictures soon but for now: (I have no idea if this video will work, if it doesn't I'll go add some pictures tonight or tomorrow, probably tomorrow).

Wednesday night was the first day of calcio (soccer)!!!  I'm on the Navy Blue team and we tied 4-4.  No pictures yet because we don't have our matching T-shirts yet, but I'm sure that I'll get some eventually.  That league is going to be very randomly competitive and I am so okay with that.  We played Christine's team, the black team, first.  Can't wait to see who we play next =)   Thursday and Friday were back to class (we had class on Friday to make up for the lack of class on Wednesday).  Friday night Christine, Lauren, Rachel, Aaron and I went for gelato (seriously it really is just the best way to end the week).  Then we walked to St. Peter's Square because...  well honestly we just didn't want to go home yet.  It's gorgeous at night as well.

Then on Saturday I went to Ostia Antica.  It is one of the most well preserved ancient Roman villages in Italy.

 Christine took some pictures too... but she hasn't uploaded them yet.  I'll steal the good ones when she does =)  We also went to the catacombs which were so cool, but pictures weren't allowed so I don't have any from down there.    Saturday night there were a bunch of museums open until midnight, and they were either free or only one euro.  We went to the Capitaline (sp?) Museum with is down by the forum and walked around for a few hours.  It was so cool, and for 1 euro, totally worth it.

 View from one of the upper floors

Now is the point where I steal a bunch of Anne's photos from that night because I'm actually in them:

 Aaron (walking on), me, Sam, Maddie, Rachel

 Rachel (I have no idea what she's doing...), Aaron (the one who is usually mentioned as having been with us), Aaron, Me

 Anne and Me (We don't know why this happened... I look super photo-shopped.... but it's a great picture)

 At least Maddie and I were ready for the picture?  (Back: Aaron, Me  Middle: Rachel, Maddie  Facing us: Sam, Aaron)

 Disco Party!   Aaron, Me, Maddie, Aaron

Anne, Sam, Me

When we got back Aaron and I watched Mrs. Doubtfire (well, we watched about 20 minutes before we decided that it was just way too late and we'd pick it up later).  Sunday was homework day again... and yesterday was homework plus my one class I have on Mondays but Aaron and I watched another 40 minutes of the movie last night (I feel like it's going to take a week before we actually get through this movie) and that was that!  Today and tomorrow just classes again, and tomorrow will be calcio again (it's weird how excited we all get for calcio)!  Not sure exactly what's going on this weekend, I might go to a ballet on Saturday.  Should be a fun weekend.  I'll try to keep up with this better, I honestly just didn't have anything to write last week.  But this weekend I'll be in Rome and the week after that is my first trip out of the country and I'll be hitting Barcelona!!! I'm sure I'll have plenty to say after that!!  Can't wait!

Arrivederchi!