Week Eight

So Dan left today and I'm bummed. We woke up at the crack of dawn to take the train to the airport. We got there really early and just sat together as long as possible before he had to go through security. I am really going to miss him. It was so nice to have my best friend here for a whole week to hang out with me and get back to our old routines of doing stuff together like cook dinner and go out. I think this week has now just made our time apart even worse though. I mean, I never would have had him not come, but now that we've spent the week together it's so much more painful. I just hope the next two months go by soooo fast.

This past week was a tough one juggling school and doing stuff with Dan. He was a great sport and saw a lot of sights that I have already seen in Rome by himself. One night we got to go to a soccer game. It was SS Lazio vs. Juventus. Dan had the time of his life. That was the first real soccer game he's been too that wasn't MLS and it was so crazy and awesome. The visiting team's fans were even caged in in one section so there were no fights!

Another day that was really awesome is we went to the Colosseum. I had been way back in January when we had one of our classes there but it was really cool to go back and just walk around on my own time. I remembered a lot of the information about it and was able to give Dan his own little personal tour. It was so much fun, I took a ton of awesome pictures. The only bummer about this week is that the weather hasn't been that great. I feel bad cause it rained a lot and Dan had to stick that out with his sight-seeing. We also went to the Trevii Fountain where we got our picture taken in front of the fountain kissing. I love it haha, it's so cheesy and cliche but I am happy we did it.

Friday night I had the cooking class for Italian. Dan got to come and we cooked an awesome meal. We made amazing lasagna and these veal meat roll-ups that were slow-cooked in a tomato sauce. It was so much fun and the cook that was friends with our Italian teachers was so cute and we had fun talking. My teacher, who is the cutest lady ever, have I mentioned that?, complimented me on my Italian skills too which was awesome, so I am really not that confident with it. We had mostly Italian 1 people doing the cooking class so I was able to understand some things that the cook was talking about that others weren't and I was helping them. At one point I was talking to her though and figured out that she really does speak English, she just wasn't supposed to because I think Claudia told her not to to help us practice.

After the cooking class we met up with all the other kids who went on the pub crawl. It was so much fun. Unfortunately we missed the first part that was all you can eat and drink, so when we met up everyone was pretty wasted already and we were sober. But it was still a lot of fun checking out some bars we had never been to. We also went to a club in Testaccio last and danced the night away. The bar was wicked expensive, so we just said screw it and just danced for a while then walked home.

Saturday Dan and I went to the Vatican. It was gorgeous out and we packed a lunch to eat in St. Peter's Square. We sat on the steps on the outside and ate sandwiches just enjoying the awesome weather. It had to have been at least in the 70s. It was sooo nice. We then waited in line to go into the cathedral and walked around taking pictures and looking at everything. It was so amazing. That is the most gigantic church ever and it was awesome to finally see it. Unfortunately the museum was closed by the time we got to it so we didn't get to see the Sistine Chapel. I felt so bad because there wasn't another chance for Dan to see it :(

Saturday night we just went out with some kids to Scholar's and had a really good last hurrah.

Today since I was up early to see Dan off I was able to get a lot of school work done that I had to catch up on. We have our mid-crit this week for studio and an Italian quiz so I had a lot to do!