just another week in rome

The past few weeks in Rome have been flying by.
Maybe it's all the homework, or maybe it's just the fact that my time here is drawing to an end.

I am trying to appreciate and experience all I can in my last few weeks here.
Luckily I did the one thing you HAVE to do in Rome..
Spent a day at the Vatican:

It was like an art history major's dream come true!









Those are just a few of the famous beauts I saw in the good old, Vatican.


Other than that, I've been doing little things around the city that only a local would.
For one, renting a row-boat at the Villa Borghese and sailing away!









Tomorrow is Rome's birthday!

Happy birthday, home!

the hills are alive

I know, I’m pretty much a big blog update fail. I am what we like to call, easily distracted. For example, I am currently only updating my blog to avoid writing a paper.

Yes, I felt all the earthquakes but was not affected by any of them. Us Californians are pros of course.

The past week and a half my lovely sister and cousin visited! We did all the usual touristy things and ate and laughed and bonded!

We went to Florence for the weekend, and went on a tour of Tuscany hitting up Siena, a little wine estate for lunch, a small town called San Gimignano, and finally Pisa for that classic picture we just had to have.

Florence was beautiful as always, even though I had already been there I still discovered and saw new things. It was also really great to be able to see all those small Tuscan towns.

Rome is crazy right now, it is so hectic and busy and filled with tourists because of Easter. I had to go to the Vatican on Good Friday morning for school. We took a quiz in the Sistine Chapel. I’m such a good little Jew.

My program ends May 6^th. That’s less than a month away. This has certainly been a crazy experience, one I will reflect more on when it’s completely over.

As for now, time to enjoy the rest of my time living in Rome, work hard on papers and finals, have fun travels after the program (morocco, spain, greece?) and go home, back to the real world.

Ciao for now!

p.s. my 21^st birthday is in exactly a month! (not that it really matters anymore)