Thursday, May 13, 2010
Fantastic Trip to Italy!!! (and plans for the rest of my time here in Europe)
I just got home to Granada from a fantastic trip to Italy with Alan. It was so beautiful! We went to Rome and saw the Vatican, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and more. That city is incredible. It is just indescribable how it feels to stand in the center of the whole Roman Empire....wow so amazing! And then we went to Naples where we ate (every day for lunch and dinner haha) the best pizza in the world! It was so so delicious. :) Then we went to Herculaneum, climbed to the huge huge crater of Mount Vesuvius and saw the gorgeous view of all of the Bay of Naples, and then Pompeii! I have lots of pictures of this whole trip that I want to show you, I am SO excited to come home this summer and see you at the Ranch and sit down and show you lots of photos from my year of traveling here! Pompeii was fascinating and just overwhelming. We saw the bodies of humans and animals frozen in time from the ash, and the whole big city that was just destroyed, and yet simultaneously preserved for 2,000 years! I also appreciated all these Roman and Italian ruins much more because I am taking a class here at the University of Granada called Arte Antiguo en España, so ancient art history in spain. Right now in that class we are studying Roman arquitecture, and how that can be seen in Spanish villages during the time of the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. So I am learning about the Roman urbs, or city, and so it made visiting these ruins so much more interesting to me since I am learning about it! Then we went to the Amalfi Coast for a day, we took the bus along the steep, gorgeous cliffs of the coastline, with the aqua Mediterranean ocean glimmering below us. Beautiful, just stunning! We had very fun weather for the time we were there; the bright sun was shining through these dark, foreboding clouds which made for awesome pictures, and then we just got dumped on during a quick but strong rainstorm, and then it let up and the sun came out again. Fun! Then we took a flight from Naples to Venice, where we spent our last two days. Venice was so cute. It really did feel like an adult Disneyland, riding on the waterbus Vaporetto down the Grand Canal and just watching these amazing buildings and churches and museums float by us... We got lost wandering the tiny streets and canals, and found some great gelato and capucchinos along the way :). Then the next and final day we took a waterbus to the island of Murano, where the world famous Murano glass is made. The glasswork is phenomenal, just gorgeous, all the different shapes and sizes and styles they can make, all beautiful.
It was an amazing trip! I love Italy and am so glad I got there, I have wanted to go for so long! It was everything I had expected. And oh how I miss the pizza....
Now I am back to classes and getting caught up and starting to study for finals and work on class projects. I have finals through June and early July. Tyler and Barbara are coming to visit me June 15, I am so so excited to show them my city! :) Then my last final is July 5, and then I have three weeks on my own to do whatever I want before I fly home to the states! All my friends and roommates and Alan will already have left, so I will have some time to do some solo traveling which I love to do and am really looking forward to. I don't have set plans yet, but I am dreaming about doing a solo Scandinavia trip! Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm....!!! I would love to get up into the north, and it would be great in the summer! So that's what I'm thinking... :)
It has been an incredible, absolutely unbelievable year, however I am really looking forward to coming back home to California. I am really excited about this fall in UCSD. As you know, I will be living in International House which will be a great atmosphere. I also just signed up for my classes and am really stoked! The two classes I am REALLY super excited about are these, check them out: Archaeological Anthropology of The Ancent Mayan Civilization (I have always wanted to study this! Ever since I saw Mayan ruins in Mexico as a little kid, like age 7 or something!), and Psychology of Animal Behavior (ahh! this is a subject that has fascinated me for so long! yay!). So I have a lot to look forward to when I go back to UCSD!
It was an amazing trip! I love Italy and am so glad I got there, I have wanted to go for so long! It was everything I had expected. And oh how I miss the pizza....
Now I am back to classes and getting caught up and starting to study for finals and work on class projects. I have finals through June and early July. Tyler and Barbara are coming to visit me June 15, I am so so excited to show them my city! :) Then my last final is July 5, and then I have three weeks on my own to do whatever I want before I fly home to the states! All my friends and roommates and Alan will already have left, so I will have some time to do some solo traveling which I love to do and am really looking forward to. I don't have set plans yet, but I am dreaming about doing a solo Scandinavia trip! Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm....!!! I would love to get up into the north, and it would be great in the summer! So that's what I'm thinking... :)
It has been an incredible, absolutely unbelievable year, however I am really looking forward to coming back home to California. I am really excited about this fall in UCSD. As you know, I will be living in International House which will be a great atmosphere. I also just signed up for my classes and am really stoked! The two classes I am REALLY super excited about are these, check them out: Archaeological Anthropology of The Ancent Mayan Civilization (I have always wanted to study this! Ever since I saw Mayan ruins in Mexico as a little kid, like age 7 or something!), and Psychology of Animal Behavior (ahh! this is a subject that has fascinated me for so long! yay!). So I have a lot to look forward to when I go back to UCSD!
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