From the worst blogger ever

Wow, it's been a month since I last posted something...

I've had this saved for a little while and was waiting until I was caught up to post it, but I'll just post what I have now and the rest later! Sound good? Ok...

Katie visited me in Roma! It started out a bit stressful since her friend Trisha was supposed to come with her Thursday night but missed the flight, but we figured out a way for her to get there Saturday morning. On Friday, I got to be a big dork and be Katie's tour guide around Rome! We walked to Piazza Venezia, Largo Argentina, Campo di Fiori, Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, Piazza Colonna, Fontana di Trevi, Piazza di Spagna, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ara Pacis, and Piazza del Popolo! It was a lot of fun and we talked a lot about history and linguistics, which was awesome. In between our famous monuments and piazze, I made sure to take Katie to Giolitti's, the famed best gelato in Roma! We went to dinner with my roommates, which was also a lot of fun. Most of us were going to see Katie again when we went to Paris! (Strange tenses writing this now, since we already went to Paris...) On Saturday we met Trisha, and went to some of the highlights from yesterday that she had to see. We also went to St. Peter's Basilica before meeting with my roommate Liat and her friend at another one of our favorite ristoranti in Prati. I had one of my favorite pastas in Rome there, spaghetti with fresh and sundried tomatoes... but I digress... after dinner I went back to Katie and Trisha's hotel room and hung out for awhile. The next morning we went to the Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Colosseum, and Circus Maximus. Somewhere among these things Katie's shoes finally died... sad day... the French cobblestone is apparently much tamer than Rome's! We took advantage of an appetizer bar in Prati for a quick and cheap dinner before going to Termini, where Katie and Trisha took a shuttle to Ciampino for their flight the next morning at 7... gotta love low-cost airlines. They love it when you miss your flight, so they make them difficult to get to... anyway, it was great to see Katie in Rome, and when we said bye it was like "bye, see you in Paris!" How crazy is that??

I learned that I really like Baroque architecture... Rome hosts some awesome examples of it, and my architecture class covered many of them! This gives me even more reason to love Piazza Navona and Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi. The Piazza di S. Ignazio is also really neat- the shape of the actual piazza itself is very Baroque!

A few weeks ago was the last API trip- so weird... we met at Piazza Trilussa at 9am and went to the Catacombs of an Callisto and St. Paul's Cathedral.

That was rather short... hopefully I will post soon, but finals are going on right now- yikes! I can't believe in less than two weeks I will be home!