Today I went to the market in front of the UW Center apartment and bought some noodles and vegetables.
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Colosseum inside
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Me in front of Colosseum | Me at the Forum | Gladiators | Tasty water in Roma |
I went to the Forum and saw statues of Julius Cesar and Augustus, another ruler of ancient Roma. We walked to the Colosseum where the gladiators fought. They fought 11,000 animals in one year and killed them all. Then we went back to the Campo di Fiori where we live and then we had lunch and then I did some homework. In Rome, there are ancient water spouts everywhere and the water is tasty and clean. Oh yeah, I forgot I had pizza for lunch. It was so thin. Pizza in Roma is really good. I have had it twice. I haven’t had spaghetti yet but I will soon. It is daytime here and night time in Seattle and there is a huge storm, and I mean huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trevi Fountain. If you throw a coin over your shoulder into it, you will come back to Rome.
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San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane
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Santa Maria degli Angeli
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Santa Maria Maggiore
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Today we went to the Trevi Fountain and three churches. The first one was called SAN CARLO ALLE QUATRO FONTANE. The second one was called SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI. The third one was called SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE. And then we went back and got some pizza and then went back in the apartment and ate it on the deck. For dinner I had cozze, which means mussels, and bacalla, which means fried cod in Italian.
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The Ara Pacis
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Me in the Ara Pacis
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Carvings on the Ara Pacis
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A building with weapons carved on it
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Today we went to see the ARA PACIS museum. It’s an altar for Augustus, for all the wars he won. It was a sacrificing place. They sacrificed animals there. Next door was a building that had weapons in stone on it.
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Hadrian's Villa
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Me at Hadrian's Villa
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Villa D'Este, Avenue of 100 fountains
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Villa D'Este, fountain
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Me at Villa D'Este with George and Maeve
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Me at Villa D'Este with Maeve
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Villa D'Este fountain
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Me at Villa D'Este with Toby, one of the teachers' dog
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Today we went to the town of Tivoli and looked at Hadrian’s summer palace. It was huge. Hadrian died in 132 AD. We also went to the Villa d’Este and saw statues and fountains. There was a fountain that plays an organ at 2:30 every day.
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Me with Italian soldiers
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Me next to a tank
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Aircraft carrier model
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Frogman
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Bocca della Verita
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Today we went to a really cool Italian military show at the Circus Maximus. This is where they used to have chariot races. I got to go inside a helicopter and a tank. I saw real torpedoes and I saw frog jumpers, which means that they jump out of a plane and land in the water. Then we also got to put our hands in a thing called the Bocca della Verita, which if you tell a lie, it bites your hand off. In the afternoon, I climbed the Spanish Steps. 137 of them.
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Biking on the Via Appia Antica
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
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Santa Maria in Trastevere, ceiling
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Santa Maria in Trastevere, altar
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Santa Maria in Trastevere, mosaics
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On Sunday, we rode bikes on the Appian Way outside of Rome. It was made from Rome to England, it stretched that far. It was really bumpy. It was made out of big and small stones. In the afternoon we went for gelato. My favorite flavor is lemon. At night we went to church at Santa Maria in Trastevere. I couldn’t understand it but it was like a regular mass at school. They were speaking Italian. My parents give me change for my pocket before we go out every day so I can give it to the poor. They make me sad.