I'm sitting here typing this eating paprika pringles and drinking red wine. How I love Italy!
Yesterday was another fun day of trekking around to various monuments in Rome. Despite the impression that we give Albert by being fairly silent and looking morose in the heat, I think everyone is having a good time.
We met at the theater of Marcellus and walked all over. from the capitoline to the aventine hill. We saw the forum boarium and the Arch of the Argentarii which I love, we walked by the temple of Hercules Victor and the circus maximus and a million other amazing places.
We stopped for lunch in Trastevere, the neighborhood that we live in, and found a great little cafeteria style restaurant which seemed to be super poplar with local people I had an absolutely delicious zucchini flower and mozzarella pizza. then on our way back to the meeting point we found a place selling elaborate miniature cakes and pastries for 1 euro each, delicious!
we finished the tour by visiting the Porticus Amelia and Monte Testaccio which is a mountain entirely composed of discarded oil amphorae which had been imported into Rome, super cool!
I was browsing through my Rome guide book and we've seen pretty much every roman monument I came across - after tomorrow's tour we'll probably have seen them all!
so yesterday after our tour of Rome I walked to the Colosseum because Katie, Jen and Grayson were staying near there, I called Grayson and asked for directions to there hotel which actually turned out to be right across the street! Their room literally faced the Colosseum and they had a huge balcony, it was crazy! We spent the night drinking champagne, reminiscing and looking at new the Poggio Civitate recruits on facebook, lovely.
It was sad to say goodbye but once it got late I had to leave since I had to get up for our first trip to Ostia in the morning. Plus I'll probably go to sienna for Palio next weekend and see them then!
So Ostia today was amazing! It was a 40 minute packed train ride to get there, hopefully when we go for work earlier in the morning we might get a seat!
It was cooler at Ostia since it was near the ocean and there was cloud cover and a nice sea breeze
The tour of the city was It was so cool to see such a huge city which was so much intact. we spent hours walking among the buildings while Albert told us the city's history and explained its topography.
there were gorgeous black and white mosaics on building floors and many of the walls went up to the old second stories of the buildings which really gave a sense of what the city used to look like.
It's pretty hard to believe that in a few days we'll be digging at such a famous site!
Tonight after getting home from Ostia, making a grocery store trip, finally buying a bit of makeup and cooking supper, (pasta with grilled zucchini, tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella and basil) me and 3 of my roommates (Sara had plans) went out to have drinks.
we had a hilarious time chatting and having some roommate bonding times. We had planned on staying out a long time, but after we left one pub to go to another bar we all decided that we were too tired and walked home instead - such a wild Friday night. though it's probably for the best since we have class on Saturday too this week. I think that a lot of people plan to go out Saturday instead.
I'll update you on weekend shennanigans as they happen
ciao
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