After a weekend of snow Sunday dawned clear and sunny. The Pope speaks at the Vatican on Sundays at noon, so a bunch of us ventured down there to see what he has to say. A pro-life rally was happening in St. Peters Square, and while it was a little awkward, they all had green balloons which gave the snow-topped square a festive appearence. The fact that the Christmas tree is still up in St. Peter's helped, too. I was expecting the Pope to come out to some grand balcony, but he just sort of popped his head out of a window, waved, gave a short sermon, and then impressively greeting us in no less than seven languages. After that I went home with the mindset to do some work, but school called and said that all schools and public offices were cancelled in Rome for the next day. Snow Day! 'Snow' Day today was more like 'occasional icy sidewalk day', and in fact the weather was the best it's been here in the past five or six days. I had a lazy morning with my host brother. He was playing with a globe and insisting the sun rotates around the earth and we got into an argument (mostly through gestures) about the workings of the solar system. I felt a bit like Galileo telling the Church that the Earth in fact rotates around the sun. Not because I had just made one of the most important discoveries in history, but more because my host brother still doesn't believe me. Fantastic lunch out today and some exploration of Piazza del Popolo and Via del Corso. Here's an awkward picture of a man trying to sell flowers to my friend, another (wonderful) Kelly:
Buonanotte, tutti!
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