(Mom, a picture with me in it, for you)
First day of classes today! Mondays I only have one class, Italian, and there are only three people in my level. It was a little bit of a struggle-fest, but I learned that the word for climbing is arrampicata. I'm researching cliffs tonight.
After class some more roaming Rome (couldn't help myself there). Walking down Via Nazionale is one of my favorite things to do here. It leads to the old part of Rome, and after an espresso and some chips at a snack bar I took a friend to see the view of the Forum Colleen and I discovered our first day. He pointed out to me that from the hill above one of the ruins people throw coins to try to land them on top of one of the still-standing rows of pillars. There are hundreds of coins on top. I tried, but my 1 cent euro coin -which is about the size of my thumbnail- bounced off. I'm going to practice and try again. Anyone got some thousand year old marble I can borrow?
At the Italian White House there is a changing of the guards ceremony every day at 15:15, so I went to see that today as well. It was a fun ceremony; a band, lots of marching about, and two guys with two swords who do fancy tricks. They are an impressive group, I would not want to cross one.
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