Day 7- July 21
Today, I spent the day at museums and a famous street of Rome leading to the Memorial to Vittorio Emmanuel. We went to the Palazzo and Epigraphico Museums, where famous sculptures were stored, along with other artifacts. I saw sculptures of gods, mosaics, and the armor of Aeneas (left). I wanted to bring back the tickets from the museums, but Italy doesn’t allow tickets to be kept by large groups. I also had my first taste of Italian pizza today with my friend Connie Cheung. We toured around the area by the museums and stopped at a Ristorante Pizzeria. Since we were rushed for time, I had to inhale the artichoke-egg-ham-mushroom pizza, one of the best pizzas I’ve ever had, in 5 minutes. We had to stuff the pizza in our mouths while running across the street back to the bus, dropping bits of eggs and bread on the road. Fortunately, we made it back to the bus. We headed back to the campus to have lunch, which almost everyone was too full to eat, and studied for a pronoun quiz in the afternoon. I didn’t have to study too hard for it. After taking the pronoun quiz, I attended a class on subjunctive uses and then translated Pliny’s letter to Tacitus about the Vesuvian eruption with some friends.
I attended a translation lecture afterward dinner and spent the night with some friends, playing ping-pong and jamming away at the piano.
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