Just Rome-in' Around.

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Finally, after a horrible weekend of cramming my studies to take 5 mid-terms in 36 hours, I was finally free. We took a train to rome Thursday night and made it to Rome around 7. We checked into our hostel, which turned out to be some guys apartment he turned into a hostel and went out to paint the town red. We woke up the next morning and did what was called the "Caesar Shuffle" where we visit the Colosseum, the forum, capital hill, the pantheon, the spanish steps, and the trevi fountain. They were probably built by aliens cause they're outta this world! Just kidding... but seriously they were cool! We basically did Rome in a day. We finished out night by going to the Hard Rock Cafe where we had real American food and free water with ice. Crazy. Matt and I split a burger and an appetizer with chicken tenders, potato skins, and buffalo wings (mom you didn't read that). We also had ranch! It's funny the things you take advantage of. The next day we woke up and went to Vatican city and say the cathedral, however, there was about a 2 hour line so we decided to go into the Vatican museum instead where we got to see all this art and paintings done by famous artists including Leonardo Da'vinci. We saw the Sistine chapel which was smaller than I expected but no less incredible. We met up with my friends from Chapman, and we chatted for a bit and went back to our hostel and packed our belongings to head to the airport. We got to the airport and made our flight on time! Time for Ireland!

Chocolateers

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Pompeii, Sorrento, and Capri

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So I have officially decided that it is the photoshopping pictures that has prevented me from updating my blog. So I will write about it, then add photos later. Cool! Sometime in october I went to Pompeii, Sorrento, and Capri. First in Pompeii we walked around the city and say what they excavated thus far. We got to see how they lived, worked, and everything else. It was surprisingly a huge city with streets and crosswalks and a colosseum and 2 amphitheaters. We saw some of the people who died, which was wierd cause you could see their bones in some of them. They probably weren't happy campers that day. Later we went to Sorrento where we checked into our hotel and went to a traditional Sorrento dinner with salmon, some desert, and a rice dish. It was really good. After that we went to this little store where we tried the different kinds of limoncello which is this think lemon alcohol or something. Then we went out and painted the town red. The next day we woke up and sailed on a boat to the island of Capri all while singing "I'm on a boat!". That's actually not true, but I did say that. We took another smaller boat to take a tour around the island and got to see the green lagoon, a famous rock formation and 1 of the 7 wonders of the world, the blue lagoon. Unfortunately due to weather we couldn't go inside. After, we took a tram to the top of the island and walked around and went to this viewing point off a cliff. We walked a little further in search of a beach, which according to our guide was a 20 minute walk. We found a beach but found out it was a nude beach, so we walked for another 40 minutes and finally found the beach where I swam in the Mediterranean sea for the first time. That was neat. We left the beach and made our way back, stopping to get a canoli and some gelato.

History shmistory

I woke up this morning, walked to Italian class, then got some coffee and a pastry since Italians don't eat breakfast. Then I went to my art history class where we proceeded to go to the Santa Croce church built in the 13th century where Michealangelo and Galileo were buried. No big deal.

Kinder Bueno

I woke up saturday to another text message: "Corey! Come to Siena with us today!". That sounds like fun. With my camera all charged up I met up with a whole group of people and we went to the train station and once again, barely made our train. Luckily this time I had my ticket validated. After our train party we made it to Siena. It's nice when there's so many destinations that are within 2 hours of where you live. Siena was only 1 hour. We made it and had no Idea where to go. Word on the street was that we go up the road and then go up the hill. I'm glad we got such detailed directions... Turns out there's more than 1 hill in Siena. But let me be the first to tell you that getting lost in Italy isn't so bad. Getting there is half the fun right? Totally true. After walking around for a bit and taking in the view overlooking the city (since we were on one of the many hills) we used our horrible Italian to ask for directions. We took quite a big detour but it was nice. We finally made it to "the sink" in front of the church and sat down for lunch. The waiter didn't like us much. I don't know why. Some Italians are so grumpy. Once we had lunch we got some gelato and walked to the duomo. It was probably the coolest duomo I've seen so far. It had pink and white marble and really cool architecture. We tried to go inside but it was 15 euros and no one wanted to pay that. Maybe next time. We walked behind it and sat down for a break on the steps then continued through the streets. It started to rain a bit but it was really hot so it was a nice break. We eventually found this steep street we walked down that overlooked more of the city. That was neat. The sun was about to start going down and we were all pretty tired so we walked back to the train station. It was hard to get back though cause everyone told us to take a bus cause it was too far to walk. We finally made it and just in time because it started pouring rain. I was also introduced to Kinder Bueno candy bars. It's like a kit kat but with Nutella. Best thing ever. This was when I wasn't starting to feel well, but everyone was going to club space so I went too but I was turned down at the door because they thought I was Italian and wanted to let the international students in first. Then I went to bed. The end.