Friday I had an Italian test. I really don’t know how it went but it’s in the past and there is nothing I can do about it now. The highlight of my Friday was spent in my room. What was I doing you may ask. Well first on Caitlin’s Itunes the song What Dreams Are Made Of from the Lizzie McGuire Movie came on and we had a mini dance party to it. Then I decided to see if I could watch it on youtube. It turns out that you can watch it in 9 minute segments. Finding this out made my life! Caitlin and I watched it and the whole time we pointed out the things that were wrong about Italy in it. It was so funny! The rest of Friday was just a religious studies class and getting ready to go to Venice on Saturday.
On Saturday Alex and I got up early to get to the train station for our 7:45 train. We got word on Friday that there were going to be some form of riots in Rome on Saturday starting at 9 at the train station and going into the afternoon so we were glad that we left way before they started. I love Venice. When we got there the first thing we decided to do was make sure we had tickets to get back to Rome. Once we had the tickets we were free to wonder where ever we wanted. We first got something to eat for lunch and yes I’m sure you guessed what we got: pizza. The pizza was easy and quick and not to mention how good it was! Every place in Italy has different pizza and it’s all so good! After we got the pizza we wondered around the islands of Venice. Every way you look there is another view of something different. It was all so beautiful! We went to a gallery, found a free museum that showed some of Vivaldi’s instruments he taught to his students, the Doge’s Palace, piazza de San Marco, and even the church Vivaldi taught students at when he was a priest. It was so much fun. We went into so many mask shops. You wouldn’t even believe how many are there! I wanted to get a mask but I got one the last time I was there and how many do you really need in your life, right? We wondered all of the islands and did not get lost once. We got our train back and when we got back to the hotel we checked out email to find emails from family asking if we were alright because of the riots. We even saw CNN news reports online about it! It was crazy. We sent word to our families that we were alright and that it was all done before we got back to Rome.
On Sunday it was a really relaxing day. We woke up and got some food, and yes we did end up caving in and got not only American food but McDonalds. It was so nice to have American food, as bad as that sounds and it was even cheaper that other food would have cost us. We went back to our room and just had some down time to put up pictures and just relax before I went to mass with some other friends. I went to mass at the same church I went to last week. After mass this week I decided to look at some of the chapels around the main part of the church. I almost died when I saw that one of the chapels had the remains of St. Catherine of Siena for hundreds of years after she died. I was named after her because that was the church my family used to go to when they lived in Illinois. When I got back after dinner I told my mom on skype and she freaked out as much as me. I ended up skyping with my family for about an hour and a half. It was great! After that I just relaxed and got ready for my school week.
Today was just a typical Monday. The only difference was that Professor Checca is here for the week with his wife! I love Checca! He saved me when I ended up missing the bus to Assisi. He sat in on 3 of my classes today and that made them even better. The only other thing that happened today was the start of this thing called God squad. It’s something that was started here by our RA Miss McHugh made for us to get together and just talk about our religion with some deacons and seminarians. There were about a dozen of us girls there and it was a lot of fun tonight. We also found out that since they are studying at the Vatican they might be able to get us a tour of both the Vatican and the crypts for either free or a reduced price. I am so excited about this! Well that’s all for tonight!
ciao bella!
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