Today we woke up and it was cloudy. So, being the smart person I am I brought my umbrella and my really good rain jacket. However, neither helped when it down poured. I mean torrential rain and it was thundering. And we still had our two and a half hour class outside, huddled under umbrellas, even with the wind blowing rain at us. It lasted a good twenty minutes at a time with it being very heavy rain so that we couldn't even hear what he was saying and were all to cold and wet to care to be honest.
At one point the girl couldn't even finish her presentation the rain was so loud we had to run under trees just to continue class. And still we couldn't go into the classrooms despite being rather close by. Also, our shoes soaked through and so did our pants, our bags were soaked through and no one could take notes because we were holding umbrellas and even then my notebook was still damp. Even when the rain let up the wind was still cold and we were all really wet by that time. It was miserable. Granted after class we went home and changed and i felt just dandy...until I opened my backpack. My books and notebooks were ruined. It looked like they had been dipped in water and all my walking tour answers that I meticulously wrote out very neatly were in there. I mean pages and pages of work now smudged and wet. The book I paid like about 50 dollars for (our text book) is now water stained and my camera was wet as well. I turned on the camera and it went on but I am nervous, it was a gift from my dad.
I really just wanted to cry because there was no need to keep us outside when we were so close to the school (a ten minute walk) when the rain was so severe and lasted so long. My shoes which I THINK were waterproof got so soaked I wont be able to wear them for at least a day until they dry.
I went back to the apartment and made myself a p b and j but was still in a bad mood so I had nutshell on bread. I bought it because its a whole euro cheaper than peanut butter not realizing its basically chocolate spread. And its GLORIOUS. Its like, chocolate...in peanut butter consistency. Granted its probably horrible for you and doesn't go with jelly, it somewhat soothed me. I also then took a nap. I'm feeling better but that doesn't erase the water damage to my things. I am going to have to use a damaged book and notebook for the rest of the program. And the other part is its going to rain for a few more days and it will be the same, we will be outside for hours in it. Plus don't forget every day we have walking tours to get done. Luckily I used Sunday to get today's and Wednesdays done.
One of our assignments is to go see the Sistine chapel, which is good BUT we have so little time to do these walking tours I hate it being rushed. And it is part of the museums at the Vatican, but our professor told us you cant do the museum in the order you want, you have to go through two and a half hours of stuff before you get to the Sistine chapel. Isn't that crazy? They have a route you have to take through the museum and it's so crowded you just march along behind people until you finally get to what you want to see. Which is annoying.
Sorry this has been a huge rant, but it really needed to get out! As for what we saw we barely saw much today and I learned virtually nothing because of the condition but I suppose Ill mention it:
The Colosseum
The arch of Constantine
Remains of the temple of Venus and Roma
Remains of one of the Gladiatorial schools.
It was kind of neat to learn about gladiators, who were actually slaves because they were dispensible and often didnt last over ten years, either fighting wild animals or each other- basically they made their owners money the better they were at fighting, like a race horse or something. People bet on them and trained them and then had them fight. I know its pretty disgusting that they were so expendable but it was totally normal back then because slavery was the norm.
For Italian we were supposed to go to a place and see how they make gelato but that got canceled which is also sad. I hope we reschedule, I was looking forward to an interactive field trip lesson. Ah well. We have tomorrow off for the Italian version of the fourth of July- haha. But if it rains we wont get anything done, so pray it doesnt everyone, PLEASE!
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