This past week was pretty busy with school and trying to see my dad. Although he had a lot of stuff planned and kept pretty busy himself. We got dinner a couple of nights at some cool restaurants I hadn't been to. One night we went to this one that Alex and Steve had recommended and who is there but Steve with his family and then Alex and Diana came on a dinner date. It was too funny. The food was delicious, very traditional.
We also went to this restaurant that I had been eyeing for a while because I thought it was very my dad's type of place, trendy seeming. I think it was called Glass but we keep messing up the name haha. It was pretty good. One of those places where the menu is pretty limited and it's all fancy foods, so sort of intimidating. We enjoyed ourselves though and I think my dad and David liked the atmosphere, even though the wait-staff was interesting. We had about 5 different waiters and none of them could get our orders right.
Today Dad and I are going to walk around Rome for the day since we are free and none of my friends are around! I think we are going to visit the Borghese gardens since I haven't been there yet and it's a beautiful day out! I think that should be a fun thing to do especially since my Dad has already seen a lot of the sights.
This week was a little bit hectic with school work. Yesterday was our final Italian exam. I wasn't too too scared about it, but it was definitely a big part of our grade and I wanted to do well so I studied a lot. We also had to hand in a Thema and a worksheet, so there was a lot of homework in addition to studying for the test. Along with the Italian exam we had a lot of studio work due because we are trying to keep up since our final will be the last work to do after break. It was really hard though because you want to focus on the work that is more immediate.
The walks this week were really fun too. We moved into the more modern Rome times and talked a lot about Mussolini and then really modern Roman architecture. We went to Villagio Olimpico, which is the Olympic Village from the most recent Olympics which I new forget when it was but I want to say was sometime in the 70s. It is now basically a big neighborhood with apartments/condos and it has it's own school and everything. Pretty cool.
We also went to Garbatella which was this quaint little area of town outside the main city. It was so cool and we all decided that's where we would want to live. Basically it was a whole neighborhood of little houses with nice lawns and small quiet streets.
Another really cool place we went on a walk was to EUR which was an area built for a world exposition for 1942, although it never happened and wasn't finished. It was all Fascist style architecture, which isn't really my taste but was still so cool to see. It was all planned out in an axial way with an obelisk in the center of the axes. We got to go on the roof of an auditorium building which was so nice. It had a really nice view and the weather was gorgeous so it was fun to just be up there. We also got to see the huge building with all the arches, known as the "square Colosseum" up close. We had seen it from the bus a couple times on the way in and out of the city but it was cool to see it closer, although it was closed and we could just look at the outside.
The weather has been getting a lot better. Definitely a lot more hot days, lots of sunshine. It feels great. It's such a nice difference from the many many rainy days we had at the beginning of the semester. And it is starting to be nicer weather here than at home.
Anyway, I'd better go, I have to meet up with my Dad and David and then get packed for the big week! I can't wait!!
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