The Roman Forum

On our first day of class, we visited the Roman Forum. This place was amazing. I felt like I was in some foreign land--like I had just stepped into history. I felt like I just came out of a time machine into ancient Rome. The whole time I was there, I thought of Jurassic park for some reason, and half-expected dinosaurs to pop out and scare the crap out of me.

Everything was so amazing and tall. I swore I was going to need a neck brace after all the looking up at monuments. (haha, I feel like I'm always looking up in Rome while I walk--at either tall bui

ldings or monuments or statues. And, consequently, I fall into holes(where there's a missing cobblestone) or trip over things. ) David did his presentation on the Arch of Titus. Good job! =D First presenter. I would've been so nervous, haha.

Oh, today, I learned that in ancient times, all the statues would have been painting in color and the marble, so Rome would have been SUPER colorful! That seems so strange and different from what I imagine Rome looking like--with all the white monuments and

statues. (I guess I don't have to imagine... haha, I'm here!)

Christine also did her presentation today on the Colosseum! It amazes me how the Romans built this thing. There was some crazy engineering going on here. Some of the architechture of this building are still engineering mysteries today! What! Ancient Roman Engineers amaze me! Apparently, they used to have water battles in the Colosseum. This highly confuses me.

I think this was the day we cooked our first dinner in our apartment together. Yay for pasta with peppers, onions, garlic, zucchini, eggplant and pesto!

Favorite picture of Shurui!

=D!!