One Month to Go...

I have a month left in this country. I can’t believe I have already been here for 3 months. And because I only have one month left, I am pretty upset that I spent last saturday night in J-Force and I slept for 16 hours that night, spending most of Sunday in bed feeling sick. Definitely not how I planned on spending one of my last free weekends in Rome. But my fever got the best of me, I didn’t have any energy to get ready and go out. Also, we have been heading into the rainy season here in Rome and it poured most of Saturday too.

But I did have a chance to spend Friday in Rome. We had Friday classes, I had one at 9:30am, Archeology, where I had to turn in a paper but then I was free to go into the center of the city and meet Christina at the Vittorio Emmanule monument so we could go to the Van Gogh exhibit. I was supposed to meet my Aesthetics class there (we also had a Friday class) but I spent the time Christina and spent about an hour in the exhibit. We could have spent more but there were a lot of classes there and it was very busy and crowded. But it was still pretty cool to see it. After the exhibit, we walked up to the top of the monument to get a look at the city. It might be odd to say, but I hadn’t seen the Colosseum in a while and it was still quite a shock to see it again. As stupid as it is to say, it makes you realize again, “Oh yeah, I’m in Rome.” After the great view, we walked down Via del Corso and went shopping. We went into a bunch of little stores and Christina bought  some sweaters and I bought a very cute blazer. It was nice to just spend the afternoon in Rome wandering around, grabbing some pizza and walking to the Piazza del Popolo. It was a wonderful afternoon.

Christina and I got back to J-Force with enough time to eat mensa. Then Ryan, Christina, and I relaxed for a couple hours and headed out to our favorite place: The Abbey Theater. Ryan really wanted some Irish Cider and I was up for anything. We got there  and had a great chat over a pitcher of cider. Chana and Sarah went to go see Harry Potter in English and we met up with them around 1am at another bar called Bull Dog Inn. But we soon left, we hopped on the bus and headed home.

I didn’t sleep that much that night, and I think that is why I wasn’t feeling well Saturday. So we spent most of the day in Rinaldo’s just hanging out and watching TV. Kind of lame, but everyone needs a great day of just chilling and hanging out. 

Other than that, nothing else exciting went on this weekend. Just a weekend to relax and spend some time in Rome. I knew that I was going to need it because on Wednesday, we fly to London for Thanksgiving break! We are staying with my friend’s aunt in Windsor, which will be nice because we will have a little bit of home and she is going to make a make shift Thanksgiving for us, even though they don’t celebrate it. 

London will be my last major trip until my mom comes on the 10th and we head to Florence and Venice. 

It is shocking how time really does fly. Weeks go by so quickly here, before you know it it's Thursday again and people are leaving for the weekend. And this week is only 3 days and we are getting on a flight at 7pm to fly to London. 

I guess I am just going to have to make the most of my last few weeks here. 

Ciao Bella