Oh I wish. So then I wouldn't have had to get up at 7:30 this morning to get on a bus and head down to the Colosseum and Forum for my Art in Rome class.
Yes, it did suck to wake up that early. But the 3 hours went by so quickly I was amazed! Professor Nicholson knows everything about anything. He is such a cute old man and it's hard not to actually imagine what the Forum looked like during the Roman Empire.
There is a poster here at J-Force that says "Your next lecture could be at the colosseum." Now although we didn't go inside, I still learned about the colosseum, the forum, and palatine hill while standing on the very paving stones they laid for the roads, with grooves from the carts and chariots that had driven down it for centuries.
This is a representation of what the forum looked like. With the Via Sacre road visible...I believe.
I'm no classicist.
So yes, I would love to be able to travel all week, and spend my time eating pasta and doing nothing but roaming the city all day. But it is nice to learn something while I'm here. It makes it worthwhile for me to be spending so much money to be here. This is what I have been working towards since I came back from my Rome and Greece trip after my high school graduation.
And now I am here sitting in a classroom learning about having a truly aesthetic experience, and realizing it is so easy to have one here. You turn a corner and you see a beautiful piazza. That is really learning, and retaining the information. I don't know how I'll go back to reading a book instead of experiencing everything I learn.
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