My last days in Rome

 And... it has been A WHILE since I've taken the time to blog! Needless to say, My last month in Rome was action packed and filled with fun times, here is just a taste of the good times I had!

I am in two countries at one time!!! (The vatican and Italy)

My friend Jessie, who was studying abroad in Ireland, came to visit me for a week and I got to introduce her to cannolis at my local shop!

OH NO! I must be a liar becuase La Bocca Della Verita has eaten my hand!! (For those of you who are confused, you NEED to watch Roman Holiday!)

We made sure to check out the famous fresh market in Campo dei Fiori-look at all the Pasta!!

Jessie, a Roman centurion (notice the feather on the helmet), and I celebrate Rome's birthday- April 21st

Jessie and I headed to the Spanish steps to watch the sunrise! We made it there in plenty of time to see it rise, and in just enough time to disrupt a photographer snapping some shots. Soon he left though and we got to enjoy the popular spot all by ourselves and even have a devotional for almost a half hour.

A picture of me by the flowers on the Spanish steps, after the Easter sunrise service with my church, at a beautiful look out just down the road

Jessie and I headed to take some late night pictures at the Trevi Fountain

I got to hear a cello player playing in the favorite piazza near my school

One of the most UNREAL moments of my trip!!! I got to have a pillow fight with thousands of people in Rome, in the middle of a piazza/street which was next the the tiber river/the temple of Hercules, La Bocca della Verita, AND the colloseum- HOW COOL!!!

I finally made it to an Italian soccer game! unfortunatley, we didn't win- it was however, TONS of fun!!

Celebrating my last night with friends Diviya and Shaili

Enjoying Vatican city for the LAST time!

My last gelato in Rome!

My last weeks in Rome were jam packed with churches- for some reason my first three months were so filled with ancient ruins I failed to step inside and see the beauty in the many, many churches that Rome has- Luckily I was able to squeeze in a bunch of them! This one, called Santa Maria degli angeli, is one of the four major churches of Rome and I visited it with my roommate Virginia. This one I had visited before, however because I was built into a part of the baths of diocletian :)

My second to last day of Rome, I decided to be especially adventurous and I took a bus outside the city by myself, to see a famous Etruscan necropolis (city of the dead), which I couldn't get people to come with me to before!

Aren't the tombs so cool? I felt like you were literally walking down the streets of an ancient city which had been perserved, except it was built for the dead! Oh, yeah and it is also kind of fun that they resemble hobbit  holes!

My last days in Rome were some of my most enjoyable, as I made sure to squeeze in some of the things I'd always wanted to see as well as making sure to say goodbye to my favorite spots. My favorite new spot was a musuem- Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, a beautiful aesthetic expiriment in which classical pieces were placed inside and juxtaposed against Rome's first electrical power station. My second favorite spot was the Protestant Cemetary- a beautiful retreat in the middle of the city, which includes famous people including Keats, pictured above, as well as the Shelleys and Goethe.

So... wow, those are but a few glimpses of a few days, in a bunch of pictures- stay tuned for some of my reflections on my trip, coming soon!