And that terrifies me a little bit. I still have so much left to do! But this weekend was relaxed. Ish. Getting ready for midterms anyway. Yesterday we visited Castel San Angelo, which was nice. Had a magnificent view of the city, better than the Gianacolo Hill, because the Castel is situated in the city, so it's closer to everything. Pretty spiffy. I also got my first gellato. The first of many, I'm sure...
Tonight, we decided to treat ourselves to our first dinner out in Rome. We went to Piazza Navona and wandered, perusing menus until we found something that sounded like delicious for low prices. I can't remember the name of this place - probably because we weren't looking for a name.
We shared a plate of gnocchi al pomodoro
and filette di pollo con cariciofi (spelling may or may not be off) it was chicken with artichoke hearts. I -love- artichoke hearts. And chicken. And gnocchi.
So we enjoyed our meal, and as we were finishing our wine, the Hare Krishnas came!
They sang and danced and didn't really do much, except tried to pass out little pamphlets and these free chocolates to some people. It's as if some higher power knows that I have a project to do on music, and they keep sending this things to me. In Barcelona it was the social rally, tonight the Hare Krishnas. I find the Hare Krishnas a little bit fascinating. But maybe that's just me.
Carolyn left me when we reached Tevere, she went to school to study, I came back to the apartment. But the Vatican looked kind of fabulous over the Tevere, so I paused a moment
Pretty!
So, here I am now at my apartment. I should be reading my Paul Theroux book, but I'm taking a bit of a study break. And I thought I'd share where I live!
This is our living room. The doorway on the left goes into the room that I share with Carolyn. The doorway on the right splits into Adrienne and Anna's room and the bathroom (two separate rooms, no worries).
And behind where I was when I was taking this picture is our kitchen:
I think the dish drying mechanism is fascinating. In the lower cupboard on the right is the mini fridge, we keep our food above. We keep dishes elsewhere. And! A full stove and oven. <3 This is where I make all those fabulous meals...
Our bathroom, complete with European style shower and bidet! Also, the reservoir for the toilet being overhead makes me nervous sometimes. But it all works out. This is also where I do my laundry. In the sink and the shower. Because I don't have the patience to wait for one of the three washers in a complex for over 250 people to be free. Plus, it isn't even open 24 hours, so they're always in use! Yikes! So I just do it here. They get clean enough for me, anyway, and this way I don't have to pay at least 2 euro every time I want to do wash.
This is the bedroom I share with Carolyn. It might look small here. That's because it is. We have an "closet" with no drawers in our room. So our clothes are all in there, but not in a particularly orderly fashion. But it's not that important to me. The room is literally a foot wider than the beds. But I really just sleep there, so it's no big thing.
This is the view from the balcony that -is- attached to our bedroom. There are four buildings in the complex. Some John Cabot students live here, and some real people live here, too, but the rear two buildings are exclusively Temple, I do believe. This is always where I hang my laundry to dry, there's a clothes horse on every balcony. How handy!
Well, I should get back to that midterm prep stuff.... ugh.
Oh! Also, for those that weren't in the know, I have my two photo books to work on. One is a European perspective on music and dance (which seems to be coming along famously) but the other one is to be a Rome effort, and I was stumped for ideas (at least ones my professor deemed "deep enough"). But, now I am doing a documentary photo book on the Roman Cat Sanctuary. Hooray for me! I e-mailed them, and got a favorable reply, so I e-mailed with the dates I would like to visit. I e-mailed them 6 dates, hopefully they'll let me come for all of them. The more I can see the cats and such, the better! But that's something exciting of note.
Anyway, until spring break, my friends! And then I'm sure I'll be making multiple posts for each city. Paris, Brussels, Brugges (day trip! I'm psyched!) and Amsterdam. It's gonna be intense.
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