Getting ready for Rome!

February 22, 2011

I decided to end up going to bed early last night because I was so tired I didn’t feel productive studying, and figured I would rather wake up early this morning to study. I woke up two hours before school to have plenty of time to get ready and study for Italian, and possibly read over some Roman Achievement notes because the midterm in that class is quickly approaching! In class today Miss Frizzle talked about the different sights she would be taking us to on our Rome field trip which is this weekend! It was really interesting and I’m excited to have a personal tour guide that just happens to be our teacher…this also means that I’ll hopefully be able to sneak a picture of her on the trip so all of you can see what I’m talking about when I say she looks like Miss Frizzle.

Class ended a little early which gave us a little time to study again for our Italian test, but hours of studying still wouldn’t have prepared us for the test…when Gloria handed out the tests I just stared at it like it was in German or something instead of Italian. She wanted us to tell the meaning of verbs from Italian to English and from English to Italian which were verbs we hadn’t even studied yet, nor were they in Chapter 3 which was the chapter our test was SUPPOSED to be over. Oh well. I tried my hardest, although it was the most confused and blindest I have ever felt going into a test. I was just glad to get it over with and eat my packed lunch in the cafeteria before it would be time for us to pack up and head over to the statue of the fake David in Piazza Signoria for art history class. Today and Thursday we are going into the Uffizi and having on-site lectures both days. Going into the Uffizi was nuts because you had to put your bag through a scanner and walk through security and you couldn’t take water into the building, nor were you allowed to carry bookbags through the museum, so I had to check my bookbag at this desk. Once inside we walked up a ton of stairs before we finally started to look at paintings, which I must say are definitely worth the hassle of getting into the building! The paintings are just beautiful and the majority of the ones we looked at and discussed are religious paintings, typically of Mary and Jesus.

Before class one of the comm. girls, Tessa, asked us if we would want to go to Tijuana tonight for dinner..the Mexican place I went to a couple weeks ago. I decided I wouldn’t mind going to get a margarita or two, but I didn’t really want to spend my money on food there, so I made rice for dinner out of a packet which I guess had mushrooms and saffron in it (so says google translator). After I ate we made our way to Tijuana and we were sat at a table which was a reservation for 25 people…I had no clue so many people were coming! I ended up getting a cranberry margarita and then a verde margarita which was basically the typical lime but was sweet instead of salty. Bria and I ended up splitting some chips with salsa and cheese and the salsa had jalapenos chopped up in it, so it was super duper spicy, but I loved it! I ended up leaving the restaurant and heading back home to try and get my pictures on my computer so I could start putting them up for people to see, as well as doing a little reading…but I ended up showering and heading to bed after doing just a little work because I still wasn’t caught up on my sleep from this weekend!