arrivederci roma

(goodbye rome)

this will be my last post here in rome. today is my last day at school. it feels so weird. thank you all so so much for all your encouragment in comments, emails, letters, and packages.

i am sooooo excited to come home. i miss everything so much. there are a lot of things i will miss about rome, mostly the cappicino and gelato...and hanging out in amazing places....but i am ready to come. hopefully someday i will be able to come back here.

see you all soon.

<3

barmotzo

today i got back from this little tiny village inbetween rome and florence. me, sarah, danielle, and natasha went to stay over night with one of our friends here who owns a little house there. it was so beautiful. it was very similiar to the other towns we have been visiting. very quaint and mountainous. have you ever heard of the monster garden?? well that is located in barmotzo. we had fun exploring it.

SCHOOL IS OVER!!! oh man, i am so glad. all of my finals went very well.

the next few days will be really fun. tonight is danielles last night here after 8 months, so we are all going to go out dancing tonight before we send her off tomorrow morning.

i am getting so excited to see all of you when i come home in 5 days. :)

the paper room

here are a few pictures of mine and sarah's paper room that we made for our sculpture class. someone in my class took them, they aren't super great pictures, but they will give you the idea of it. our whole little studio space was completely covered from the floor to the ceiling in paper that we made.

tomorrow at this time i will be done with my junior year of college. i cant wait. i only have one more final crit to get through. today really feels like summer. it is so warm and hot out. :)

the Cross was it.

i got caught in a lot of rain on my way to school today. i got very wet, but i sorta enjoyed it. it smelled delicious. there was this lady who offered to share her umbrella with me while we were waiting for the tram. i was blown away. in my experiences here, people aren't usually that friendly. she brightened my day.

last night i had a really fun time with my girlfriends. we went to the hard rock cafe. we decided to embrace our americanness for one night. it was so weird. we felt like we were in the states again. it was so great to drink FREE water out of BIG glasses. and we watched awesome 90's music videos. and we ate american food! it made me really glad i am coming home soon.

this morning i read this in a book my dad gave me, called "Christ is All!" by David Bryant. it was really encouraging to me.
"Then one day the Gospel came. I believed. Immediately from God's perspective I was raised with His Son from the dead. My destination became identical with His. God reckoned me to be crucified two thousand years ago with Jesus, at the very time He bore the judgment for my sin (and for all sin) on Calvary. The judgement my Lord experienced became my primary judgment, too.
Since I am permanently abiding in Him, I can be disqualified only if Christ Himself could ever be disqualified from full participation in the Age-to-Come (which will never happen). There is no fulture judgment that will ever expel me from the glories of the New Jerusalem. In the most profound sense, my "day in court" has passed. The Cross was it. The Cross was final. The Cross put behind me the life-threatening consequences of my incalculable rebellions against the Almighty One."

the countdown begins.....only 9 days. woah...

yay school is almost done

there is me and sarah on a boat in ventotene...right before we jumped into the freezing water.

so...things have been pretty crazy lately. i have been trying to finish up my finals and such. only a few more days of school left. i cant wait. it seems crazy to think that i will be a senior in college. how did that happen???

we had the student show last night. it was fun, lots of people came. sarah and i had our paper room project in it. we were also supposed to have our other project in it, but due to bad planning on our part it didn't happen. that was frusterating.

i leave in 12 days.

jenelle and i had a really good time together. on easter sunday we went to church and then i took her to all the major rome sites. there was soooo many people everywhere we went. we got gelato everyday that she was here. it was so nice to see her again and hang out.

buona pasqua!

well it is almost easter time. im sad to miss the easter egg hunt at my grandmas house and of course delicous easter meals. however, my cousin jenelle (the one i went to visit in london) is coming to visit me tomorrow! she is staying for a few days. so i will be with her on easter. we will probably attempt to make our own easter dinner. things are going to be absolutely CRAZY here in rome this weekend because apparently thousands of people come here to go to the vatican for easter. tonight me and a few friends are going to go to the colosseum to see the pope. that is if we can even get in....it should be interesting.

happy easter!!

John 20 11-18
But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; as she beheld two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." When she had said this, she turned around, and beheld Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Suposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My breatheren, and say to them, 'I ascended to My Fahter and your Father, and My God and your God.'" Mary Magdaline came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.

Ventotene

i have no idea why some of these pictures came up normal size and some are really tiny. sorry about that. so these are from this past weekend at ventotene. it was a great trip. there was 8 of us who went. we had a great time exploring the island. there was a really cool ancient roman ruins part up on a cliff. everything there was so beautiful. it reminded me of cinque terre in some ways. everyone on the island was so nice and friendly (unlike rome). we had delicious food and layed out in the sun. on saturday night we made a campfire on the beach. we took a boat ride, and sarah, me, danielle, ted, and marissa all decided to be crazy and go swimming. it was so incredibly cold. its not warm enough to even wear a bathing suit, but the water was so clear, we thought it would be fun. so we counted to 3 and all jumped in together. it was so cold. SO COLD. i think my body went into shock because it was really hard to breath and started to feel sick so i was only in the water for like a minute. but im still glad i did it. anyways, we had a really fun weekend. here are some pictures:

all of us on our boat ride

does this look familiar?? (minus all the people)

us girls being explorers

clear (and very cold) water

hanging out on the beach

beautiful...

a remote island

this morning my sculpture class went on a bike ride around rome and in some of the gardens. it was so cool. we got to ride through these beautiful woodsy areas that reminded me of good old pa. we rode to the catacombs and took a tour through them. it was really interesting. i hadn't riden a bike in months and so it was really hard going up hills. i was way slower than almost eveyone else. also i was using my friend emily's bike, and it is not in the best shape. it kept making really loud noises and the chain kept falling off. people were staring at me. it was funny.

my paper is still in progress. my plan was to work on it at school until school closes tonight, but after my printmaking class i was so exhausted from the bike ride i decided it would be better if i went home to work. so i did. as i was relaxing on the couch, reading over some information, i realized that i had forgotten my actual paper at school. after a few minutes of contemplating my stupidity i realized i had also left my lithography stone out in the printmaking studio, uncoated. (i was letting it dry before i could coat it and totally forgot about it).

so, needless to say, i am back here at school. and thankfully my litho stone is still ok.

tomorrow morning i am going on an island trip with a few people from my school. it is a very small remote island called Ventotene (pictured above). i am really excited. its not even a mile wide or long, and the population is really small. we are going to stay in a condo (no camping this time!) and eat fish from the island. it should be relaxing, which will be great after this paperful week.

paper shmaper

hello. well, the last few days i have been working on my paper for my early renaissance art history class. i really don't like writing papers. i am writing about the misinterpretations of Christianity, the Bible, and God in early Christian art, and how those misinterpretations have skewd socities veiw of Christianity today. its really interesting but im struggling. does anyone have any resource suggestions???

went to church this morning with danielle. there was a whole group of americans from another calvary chapel church in Rochester, (sp?) New York. so there was a guest speaker. we talked about Psalms 27, and waiting on the Lord. afterwards, we went to pastor Brent's house for a fellowship meal. it was delicious.

today is the 25th. i am coming home in exactly one month.

some cinque terre pictures

me making a fire

that little island beside the big mountian is where we camped out

sorry this is crooked....me climbing down some rocks

one of the villages

i really wish this one was straight. the water was so amazingly blue.

there are still a lot more pictures i want to post, but for some reason i can only get a few up a time. so these will have to suffice for now.

school has been sorta a drag lately, but only a few more weeks until summer!! i am trying to see as much of rome in my last weeks here as i can.

jenn williams reminded me of one of john piper's great quotes, and i have been trying to meditate on it lately...."God is most glorified in me when i am most satisfied in Him"

<3

best weekend ever

happy birthday danielle

one veiw of montorosso

one of the beaches

i have tons more and better pictures to post, but these are the only ones i can get at the moment. more are sure to come.

wow, im not even sure where to start. going to cinque terra was so incredibly amazing. for so many reasons. it really was one of the most beautiful places i have even been to. it was so good to be with danielle and sarah-God really used my time with them to encourage me...we had lots of good conversations and fellowship together. It was wonderful to be outside...and sleep under the stars and enjoy Gods awesome creation.

we had lots of fun adventures. we spent the daylight exploring the little villages, going in cute shops, and relaxing on the beach. it wasn't really hot out, but it was warm enough. at the one beach area there were huge boulders at the shoreline, so we spent hours laying on the rocks, reading and talking. we had a picnic on the beach with cheese and crackers and cinque terra wine. and spent time looking for neat rocks and shells in the sand. the first night we hiked off the trail, on this little island (abou the size of a soccer field) that was connected to the coast by a pactch of rocks in our favorite village, Montorosso. there was no one there...we had the whole island to ourselves....it was amazing...we were surrounded by the ocean. the hard part came when, after hiking back to the town for dinner, realizing it was completely dark outside....and we didn't have a flashlight. so it was a very challenging hike, in the dark, down steep inclines, over huge rocks, back to our little private island. but very very worth it. when we finally got there for the night, we made a fire (my dad and brother would be so proud), and set up our sleeping area by the fire under the beautiful stars....it was really really cold, so we didn't really sleep well at all, but that didn't matter. it was so great. the next day we hiked up the mountian and to the next village. saturday night, it was colder, so we decided to try and find somewhere to sleep indoors. but everything we found was soo expensive. we searched for places to stay for a few hours with no luck. many of the places were full. we knew that God would provide us with somewhere good to sleep, but we were starting to worry a little....we saw a really really fancy hotel, and we were embarassed to go and ask how much a room would be, because we looked like we had been camping, and we also looked like we probably couldn't even afford to buy a cup of coffee from them....but sarah decided it couldn't hurt to at least ask. so we went in, and talked to the guy. he told us that they didn't have any room, but he gave us directions to his friend who could help us, Manuel. so we followed the directions, up the very top of the village. and started shouting "Manuel! Manuel!" (thats what hotel guy told us to do). Manuel came to the gate, only to tell us that he didn't have any rooms left. we asked him if he had a floor we could pay for, and he saw how dissappointed we were (and probably how tired we looked), so he said we could sleep on his terrace. we gladly accepted, even though we would still have to sleep outside, it would be better than on a rock or something. but then, as were getting our blankets out, he told us to follow him...and he took us to his shed. he said that we could sleep in it! yay....we were so excited- four walls, and a ceiling!! it was wonderful. we joked about how it was like our "stable" because "there was no room for us in the inn". haha..... also, we kept seeing this group of 4 american students in cinque terra. we had a strange feeling that they knew the Lord, but we hadn't even talked to them or anything. the one night when we were eating dinner, they were at the same restuarant! we said hello, and later they came over to our table and we ended up talking for an hour to them. they were catholic, and all loved Jesus very much. it was interesting to hear what God is doing at their school, on their campus, and in their lives. it was good for me to talk to them, and hear what they had to say, because it reminded me that people can come from different churches, and have different background, and still know, and love, and have a personal relationship with Jesus. it was an eye opening experience. anyways, this is getting to really long. this weekend was almost like a retreat of some sort. i feel refreshed and remotived. which is good because i have a lot things to do this week.

also, lets all remember to be praying for alivia haughery and ian murphy:
http://www.aliviarachelhaughery32005.blogspot.com/
http://www.prayforian.com/

cinque terra

very very early tomorrow morning sarah, danielle, and i are going to cinque terra for the weekend to celebrate danielle's birthday. cinque terra is a city of 5 villages, and you can hike in between them. its located a few hours north of rome. we have heard that it is a beautiful area with mountians and a beach. we are going to try to sleep out on the beach to save money, but it might be way too cold. either way, it should be a fun adventure. it will be really fun just to be with sarah and danielle for a weekend.

the picture is from a google search of "cinque terra".

i like wednesdays

today has been a good day so far. i always like wednesdays because i usually have a lot of free time since i am done with classes at 3. this morning i had an on site at piazza del popolo. we went to a church and saw some sweet paintings. it is soooo beautiful today. our professor gave a us a short lecture outside in the middle of the piazza. it was great.

i had about 2 hours to kill before my italian class so i went on a walk by myself to castel sant' angelo (pictured above). i dont really know anything about it. but it looks pretty cool.

then i had italian, and now i am going home to bake some banana bread (im trying your recipe aunt diane). my friend bridget's family is here, and they are coming over to my apartment tonight to hang out.

party pictures

here am i, lighting zekes birthday candels

everyone hanging out

and finally....our huge pasta dinner.....in the kitchen sink

The towel needs washed.

church was good today. its always like a breath of fresh air. today we finished our segment on the ten commandments, with the commandment about coveting. we talked about the importance of being content with what you have, and learning to demonstrate self control in temptations to covet. one example we discussed was david, and the married woman he coveted. fulfilling the desires of our flesh, ultimately lead to death. Jesus is the only one you can satisfy us.

yesterday i was talking to my roommates and they were looking for our dish towel, and i said, "we can't use it, it needs washed." we then got into a long discussion over the phrase "it needs washed". they were all telling me that it was completely wrong to say something that way, without the "to be" in it. (it needs to be washed) and i was blown away because i have always said it that way and have never been told it was wrong. do other people say it like that? maybe it is a lancaster thing? or maybe i am just crazy.

last night, for my roommates birthday party, we had to make dunner for 15 people. we made soooo much pasta. we didn't have any pots big enough to mix it or serve it in so we used our kitchen sink. it was really funny. don't worry, we cleaned it really well.

a tripod car

isn't this car great?? it only has three wheels. my friend conor is in the way, but he is a reference for scale.

nothing too exciting has been going on here. it is starting be get soooo nice outside. it almost feels like summer on some days. last night i had fun doing puzzles with emily, bridget, and sarah. (thanks mom) and tomorrow my house is having a birthday party for our roommate zeke. so that should be fun. im going to try baking a cake.

i just bought my plane ticket back home. i will be back in lancaster on wednesday, april 25th. i cant belive it. i am leaving rome in a month and a half. time has gone by so fast. there are still lots of things i want to do here. but i know i will be ready to come home.

back to school....

well i am back in rome and it is time to get back to my school work. i must say i am not too excited about that. but i think i will get more motivated once things get going again. my london trip was really great. on the flight back i ended up sitting beside a girl who goes to my school here! haha....cool huh?

yesterday i went to a different church. for anyone who doesn't know, i have really big interest in sign language. when i first got here, i was praying that God would provide me someone or something that i could have some kind of interaction with so that i could experience some italian sign language. i kinda gave on that idea after a month. but then, at church one sunday a few weeks ago, i met a girl named melanie. she was american and was living in rome for a year and she knew ASL (american sign language). she told me about a church that she went to a few times that had sign interpretation. so we exchanged emails and phone numbers. last week emailed me and told me that she was going to go to the church on sunday and that i could meet up with her if i wanted to. so of course i did. it was a really neat experice. the service was in all italian, but there was also a sign language interpreter. there was about 8 deaf people there. italian sign is different than american sign. they are very similiar, but there are some differences. (the same situation as when i was in puerto rico) i didn't really understand very much of the sermon because i am not very good at understanding italian or sign language, but it was still really cool. i liked it a lot. and it was so cool to see how God did provide for me a friend who knows sign and a place where i can be around sign again. yet another illistration of Gods provision.

the dysons are my friends

yesterday was really fun. jenelle and i got the train out to rayleigh, essex, which is right outside of london. it was very green and spacious. it reminded us of lancaster. martin (mr. dyson) picked us up from the station and brought us back to his house. his wife, baryl, made us hot tea. then martin took us out to their HUGE garden. it was sooo amazing. we couldn't believe it. it was like a dreamworld of magical gardenness. thier garden was one acre. it was filled with all sorts tree houses, plants, ponds, pathways, fountians, secret passagways, rope climbing thing, soccer field, "wendy house" (play house), barbque, summer house.....it was amazing. so then, it started to rain, so we went for a drive around the countryside...it was really nice. then they took us to two english pubs. they were so cool. they looked like they were out of a movie. very rustic and with lots and lots of character. after that it was around dinner time so they took us to this cute british resturant. after dinner we went back to their house for more tea and then martin drove us back to the train station. what a wonderful couple.

thanks a lot for your comments. they are always so encouraging. i miss you all.

<3

cheers

man.....london is really cool. i really like it. yesterday and today jenelle had to work all morning and afternoon, so she gave me a list of things i could do and a map. i have been having tons of fun exploring the city. yesterday i did lots of shopping on oxford street, and today i went to the national gallery of art, and the courtauld institute of art. i got to see lots of great paintings and such. it was fun to be by myself and walk around. tonight me and jenelle went to a creperie and had delicious creps.

so i called martin, my friend that i met on the plane...and he was really excited to hear from me. tomorrow me and jenelle are going to take a train out to the country so we can visit him and his wife. we are really excited. they are so cute.

london

well, i have safetly made it to london. i love it here! there are a lot of american things here that i really missed...it feels refreshing to hear english and be able to understand signs and such. everyone dresses really cool here and i love hearing english accents. today me and jenelle went to camden and walked around where there was lots and lots of really neat shops and food places. it was really fun. tomorrow we are going to go to westminster abbey, the london eye, and big ben. my camera broke! that is bad. but i think jenelle will take pictures and then i can just get them from her something.

my favorite part so far was on my flight to london. we got to sit wherever we wanted on the plane. i saw this really old english couple, and i thought they looked nice, so i sat with them. i was definatly right. i ended up talking with them the entire flight. they were so sweet. they even bought me bottled water on the plane. they helped me figure out how to get to livelpool street station, where i had to meet jenelle. it worked out soooo well, because i had NO idea where i was going. after the flight, they walked me to the area i had to go. then after we had said our goodbyes, i went and waited in line for the bus i needed. then i heard someone shouting my name, and i turned around and it was the old man, martin. he was like "are you ok?? do you know where you are going? " and i was like "uhhh....yeah, i think im ok" and then in his awesome english accent he was like "ok, we'll be keepin a beety eye on you!!". haha, and then....he came back AGAIn while i was waiting and gave me their phone number and address in case i needed help or something, or if i wanted to visit them while im here. they were so nice! they are retired and live in london. they travel the world a lot...i got to hear all about their adventures. so me and mr. and mrs. dyson are basically best friends. haha. i told jenelle about them, and we might try and go visit them out in the country area. the dyson's are just one example of how i have felt God's love and protection. he has been so faithful in providing me the things i need and more. before i talked with martin, i thought i was supposed to go to liverpool, the city...which is very far from london. but, thankfully, i was pointed in the right direction.

midterms

this is midterm week. i have been very busy trying to get things done. the bad news is that i still have 2 tests to take, and 2 crits to get through....the good news is that in 3 days i will be on spring break. friday night i fly to london to spend about 9 days with my cousin jenelle, who is studying there. so that will be really fun. it will be so nice to be with family.

i can't wait to post pictures of my sculpture project. sarah and i did a collabrative piece in which we completely covered, from floor to ceiling, a closet sized space in our studio with the paper we made. its turning out really cool, we are almost done with it.

happy valentines day!!

what a great valentines day it has been so far. the best suprise ever was when i got to school and found a dozen long-stemed white roses from my dad. he is the best. we have a tradition that every valentines day he delivers me a rose. even when i was away at school in philly, he drove there to give me one. he said he really wanted to come to rome, but it wasn't very practical. so instead he sent me 12 roses! how wonderful. i had a lot of fun making valentines for my friends and putting them in their mailboxes. me and my roommate rebekah are "roomintines". so i made little cards and put them around different places for her to find throughout the day. it has been a really fun day so far. i only have one more class, then i am going to go home and try baking some cookies.

happy valentines day !!
<3 <3

what i miss...

things i miss most:

-24 hour stores
-walmart
-my family and friends
-eating breakfast at my grandma weaver's house
-playing with cousins, especially gabbie
-going to panara with darlene on sunday mornings
-driving sophie (my car)
-american cooking
-wawa
-crossway church of lancaster
-my caregroup
-having an electric stove/oven!!
-baking in my kitchen with normal baking supplies
-watching tv/movies
-the majority of my wardrobe that i left at home
-being able to understand people when they talk to me
-BIG beverages
-american coffee!!! i will never take my coffee maker for granted again....
-non-polluted air
-extra polar ice gum (thanks for sending me some family!!)
-portable coffee...they dont really have to-go cups...its very sad
-a bigger variety of cereals
-having snow to play in

don't get me wrong, i really love being here. but there are definatly things that i miss. those are some of them.

thanks to my mother for the package....i can never have enough gum! and also thanks to darlene for the letter. it definatly brightened my day.

also, on a more serious note....i want to ask everyone to keep alivia haughery and the haughery family in your prayers. if you don't know them, they are a family from my church who have a daughter, alivia, who has some form of leukemia. she is going to have a blood transplant soon. even if you don't know them, please still remember them in your prayers. if you want to see how she is doing you can go here: http://www.aliviarachelhaughery32005.blogspot.com/

super great weekend

me and sarah had a really good weekend together. all of our friends were away on trips, so we hung out together. on friday we went to a market and walking around exploring the hidden steets in rome. we found lots of really cool little shops. on saturday we had a "nothing" day. we spent the whole day basically in bed and watched movies, ate potatoe soup that we made, crocheted, wrote, and read, and things like that. it was very relaxing and refreshing to slow down for a day and enjoy doing fun things. then this morning we got up and went to church.

it was a really good message this week. the head pastor is away in paris, so one of the other pastors spoke. he is italian, so instead of having an italian translator, there was an english translator, which was an interesting change. we talked about Galatians 5, and the battle that takes place between the works of the flesh and the fruits of the spirit. the pastor refered to the isrealites a lot, and compared our lives as christians to them and their tendency to allow selfish desires to overcome the amazing things that God had for them. it becomes so easy for us to "settle" for what we are comfortable with. we grow content in our ways. and we don't allow ourselves to see that God might have something far better in store for us. we have to surrender our own desires and trust that God knows what we want far better than we do.

after church, sarah and i got coffee and walked to school. we spent about 3 or 4 hours tearing books and newspaper into little tiny peices for the paper that we are going to try and make. my fingers are sore. but i think that it will be really cool.

today is darlene and nate's one year anniversary! congradulations to them!! <3

cobblestone streets

ted, alastair, and me. i was having a better time than i appear to be having.
zeke, me, emily, and bridget eating a yummy dinner


today is a full day. i had to get up early this morning for sculpture class. my doilies are coming along slowely but surely. i am in the midst of figure out how i will install or present them. i think that i am going to do four series of them. my sculpture class is 4 and half hours. usually that seems like forever, but today it went fast. me and sarah spent it in our studio listening to music and working. then, i studied for my italian test before taking it at 2. i think i did alright on it. after that i went to printmaking (actually i am still techinically in my printmaking class (i needed a break)) i reprinted my drypoint, and it came out sooo much better. so that was a relief. after this class i am going to walk home, get some dinner, then a bunch of people are going to the racheal whiteread opening. she is a sculpture who is famous for casting negative spaces in plaster. so that should be fun. then i am spending the rest of the weekend with sarah doing various fun things.

one of the highlights of my week was recieving a fun package from my aunt diane with lots of exciting things in it. thanks aunt diane! <3

there are two things i forgot to mention before. one thing is that there was 9 people at bible study this week! we are growing every week. i know the numbers aren't important but it is so exciting to see God bringing more and more people to our group. also HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful brother cj. he turned 16 on monday. yaaaaaayyyyyy....

my apartment

this is half of me and rebekah's bedroom (its really hard to photograph rooms)

we have some sweet tiled floors

a handle on our doors into the living room

this is piazza del popolo. it is a 5 minute walk from my school.

this is the pantheon

i really like our tiles.

this is our hallway. this is what you would see right as you walk in.

part of our living room.

another part of our living room.

the big bathroom.

as you can see, i have been really blessed with an awesome apartment!

i had a wonderful time in florence. i saw sooo much art, it was overwhelming, but it was an amazing experience. i had a lot of fun just walking around the city with my friends. the highlights were seeing "David" by Donatello, and the Doumo by Brunaleski (sp?). it was huge. i will post pictures of my trip eventually. on saturday night a group of about 9 of us got to have dinner with our professor. it was really fun. he bought all of us wine and appitizers. he calls appitizers "nibblers". he is british and has a really stong english accent. he is one of my favorite professors.

this week has been slow moving. but i am excited for this weekend. my roommate, rebekah, is going to dublin for the weekend, so my friend sarah is going to come over and we are going to do fun things all weekend. one of those things is going to be making paper for our projects we are working on, so that should be fun.

traveling

i leave tomorrow morning at 6 to go to flourence and seinna (i dont know how to spell those places) it will be a weekend trip with my art history class. i am really excited. so i wont post until next week. thanks for all of your comments...it has been so cool to hear from all of you at home. i really appreciate them!
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finally photos!!!!!!

here are FINALLY some pictures.....some of these i took, and some are my friends. i still can't really get access to my all of my own photos, so i just took some off of my friends online rome photobucket thing....there are many more i would like to eventually post, but some is better than none!

at the airport (me, rebekah(my roomie), and zeke (my housemate))

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the spanish steps

me and my girlfriends at todi

our seven hour layover...

the colosseum at night

the victor emmanuel statue or as we call this building, "the wedding cake"

one of the vatican fountains at night

the vatican at night

the vatican at night

vatican

our school enterence....i know its exciting....

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roman ruins

roman ruins


conor in our kitchen!



this is a statue of marcus arrillius (i dont know how to spell his name)

this is my apartment from the outside...we are the second floor