Pre - Florence Blog a Thon

I lied. This post will be incredibly short.

Today, I had class. Morning class was actually a talk with Amara Lakhous, the author of Clash of Civilizations. It was really intriguing, but painfully slow as we needed a translator.

Afterwards, I had some quick and dirty eggs with pecorino and bread for lunch.

Art history in the afternoon was great! The Villa Borghese was filled with some of Bernini's best sculptures, Raphael, and other priceless Renaissance pieces.

Amazing, but with one critical drawback.

No camera allowed inside. Crazy, right? But they don't even allow camera on the inside. Now, I didn't bring mine because I was forewarned of this happening.

The REAL problem is that the walk to the villa was drop dead gorgeous.

Not only did we walk up the Spanish Steps (and the gorgeous streets that surround them), the villa is surrounded by what appears to be the best park in Rome.

Without complaining anymore, I will just say that after tomorrow's day trip in Florence, I am walking back there Sunday. I am also planning to go back to the Piazza Vittorio then as well to take photos for Kathie's class.

Sunday will just be a day filled with photography. <3

It's currently almost 2AM. I've just freshed showered after celebrating Molly's birthday. It was pretty cool, just a small bunch of us drinking at a bar after gelato at our new favorite place. (note to self: night-time photography is not doable with current equipment) Notable fact from our bar trip is that I identified what Kristin ordered seeing only the empty glass.

Anyways, the train leaves promptly at 7:30 AM. We leave at 6:30 AM. That gives me about 4 hours to sleep, or less if Daniel decides to wake up earlier. I am itchy from the wrath of mosquitoes and my healing face.

Huzzah. Good night (or morning or midday) to you all.