Tivoli

Ciao rigazzi!

Today was Saturday in Italy and a few of my friends and I took a day trip to a little town called Tivoli. I think it was northwest of Rome and it took about an hour to get there on the train. And the best part was it only 2.30 euro round trip! The ride up was really pretty once we got out of the city. Everything was really green and rolling hills and cute little towns built into the sides of the mountains. Once we got to Tivoli we immediately found the national park slash forest looking place called Villa Gregoriana. (unfortunately we had to pay 5 euro to get in but it was totally worth it) The best part was all of the waterfalls, and they were gigantic gorgeous waterfalls. It looked very similar to the greenbelt in Austin except that there were neat really old temples and caves and monuments all over too. My friends took a lot of pictures so check those out once they are up on facebook.

On Friday night we finally found a successful aperitivo! It was called "somethingwithanF and somethingwithanF". It was super packed because it was the best place ever. We bought drinks for 6 or 7 euro and there was a gigantic buffet with pasta dishes and rice dishes and cous cous and salad and bread that you could eat as much as you wanted! The food was delicious and it was a really good deal.

I decided against doing the internship because my advisor here said that it was difficult to take the Italian class I am in and do an internship at the same time since my Italian class is a lot more work than the other Italian classes because it is 8 hours a week instead of 4. So officially now my classes are...

Intensive Italian
Baroque Rome (art history)
Forma Urbis: The archaeology of Ancient Rome
Rome as a Living Museum

All of my other classes start this Monday the 12th and next weekend IES is taking us to Pompeii on Friday-Sunday! Except none of my friends with cameras are coming on that trip because they signed up for a different one so I will have to find a way to take some pictures of that... I'll work on it.

Ciao!