i saw Rome in 48 hours

woo. my first trip down. it was excellent. i've put all the photos up on FB...so you can see them there. and i've emailed a copy to a bunch of people. if you're having trouble viewing them and are dying to see them, let me know. commenting on here sends me an email : )

as for exciting things that happened while i was gone. i learned that italians can be incredibly helpful. when we were on the train going to Rome, Kelly asked the people we were sitting next to how we get off the train. Kelly is in her 6th semester of Italian. our neighbors told us how to get off, and then thought we needed help finding our hotel. which we didn't really, but i had my Let's Go book out, and they seemed to me to just be asking where we were going. it ended up being a huge deal. they got like five other people involved, my book got taken from me. everyone was talking in Italian trying to help us, and everytime our nieghbors explained it to someone they stared at me and Kelly.

at one point, a couple of guys started chanting "Americano! Americano!" haha. oh god. i got so red in the face. then a couple of people yelled at us to follow them off the train, so we did, and then a group of Italians were still trying to figure out how to get us to our hotel. it was probably the funniest that has ever happened to me. they were trying to read my book, which is in English, and show me on the map, speaking Italian. finally Anna came over and told them that we understood that we didn't need their help. haha. it was nice though.

our hotel was good. i went with my roommate Anna, Kelly (a girl in my program) and then Anna's friend Mica (whoc is a girl. lol.) i'll leave you with two mini tours of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the Colosseum. enjoy!

edit: the videos might have to wait. i can't get them to upload. sorry!