Two posts in one week? I must have something very important I'm avoiding....

It's true. I have a lot to do, and little desire to do anything. I had a good last week of classes, it contained four field trips, an oral presentation, and a quiz. Now I have three finals and a final paper and I'll be finished with everything in less than a week! I leave a week from Sunday and a week is a rather small unit of time.

This semester has been wonderful. I hope that from my stories and pictures everyone has gotten a small sample of what I've experienced. I've been so lucky to see the things I've seen and visit everywhere that I have visited. What's even more amazing is that I've had a lot of wonderful people visit me! My mom, aunt, and cousin, Sofia, Jodi, Valerie, and this weekend I have the pleasure of seeing Sarah and Amy who are visiting from Salmanca and Aix respectively. We had a delicious dinner last night and spent time discussing the similarities of Spanish, French, and Italian. Our little table was filled with a strange combination of those three languages as well as lots of English.

Today (instead of rewriting my paper... whoops I guess there will be time for that later tonight) I went to meet them at St. Peters and by chance we saw a papal address! None of us are Catholic so we didn't realize that this Friday was a holy day of obligation. It was fortunate that we were there because we got to see the pope from his window and hear his address. It was one of the cooler things I've seen in Rome. After we had lunch we went into St. Peter's (no lines!) and looked around. It's truly magnificent inside. Alright time to get some things accomplished before dinner. Enjoy the pictures:

Guarda, e' il Papa! (I circled the Pope's window in red for you.)

St. Peter's Basilica




Dome of St. Peter's



Tomb of St. Peter



Amy and Sarah with a view of Rome in the background.