Today I got up at 8 with 2 of my other roommates. Why you may ask. Well today there was an optional trip to mass at St. Peter’s for mass. I was so excited that we were going to go to mass at St. Peter’s. Caitlin, Lindsey, and I got all ready and made it over to the class building by 9:30 to walk over with about 10 other girls to go to mass. When we got to St. Peter’s it was so packed. Mass didn’t start until 10 so we had a half hour. This was spent taking pictures from the enormous line we had to stand in before we even got close to getting in the church. This line had a set of metal detectors we had to go through before we got in another line that actually checked your clothes to make sure that they were appropriate to wear into the church. After we got through both check points it was almost a free for all to get into the church. We tried to stay together but once we got in we split up into a few smaller groups. I was with Caitlin, Lindsey, and our friend Kaitlyn. The mass wasn’t at the main alter. It was in the chapel of the chair. We were in in the standing room only and when we went to get closer there were guards that asked us where we were going. It kind of scared me. They would get in your face and say in a stern voice “where?” Obviously I didn’t understand what they were asking because I said something and walked on and they just looked at me. We got as close as we could in the standing room and listened to the mass in Latin. When we were walking over with Miss Mchugh she told us that we probably wouldn’t be able to receive communion. When the guards removed the red rope holding us in the standing room and told us we could go to receive communion I took off with Kaitlyn to get in a line. Luckily we were able to receive communion. I felt so holy. After mass we went outside. Miss McHugh also told us that the Pope does a blessing out of his window at 12 and that was only 15 minutes away so we decided to wait around for it. It was so cool to be blessed by the pope. My friends and I decided that even our clothes and jewelry were blessed. We got back to the room and made jokes about our Pope outfit and things like that. After that we just went back to the room and did some homework. We had a very relaxing Sunday. By night all 4 of us were on skype talking to our families. I think with all of us college students in the hotel we overwork the internet because it just kicked us off and we had to wait before we could get back on skype. It all turned out ok though. Well that’s all for now!
ciao bella!
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