I am back in rome and feeling much more relaxed and recharged though I haven’t gotten a night’s sleep in almost five days but I still feel pretty upbeat. It hasn’t rained on me in two days, a record for this trip. Rome is even more beautiful than I remember it and possibly maybe have inched its way up to my favorite place I’ve been. Maybe only because it is beginning to feel familiar and i can walk the streets and know where I am. I like that. Also, probably because i am surrounded by people who feel like family so that adds to the warmness of the place. Everything here is so old, it’s mind boggling to think about and the colors of the buildings make it look like magic hour, every hour.
As for the lack of photos lately, I’m still taking them but I think I wil wait until I get home to finish posting them. I need break, or just want to enjoy the rest of my time here and plus, i mean, I’m going to want to have SOMEthing to show you when i get back that you all haven’t seen before.
I get back on wednesday, our flight is out at 10:45 Rome time. I think that means I’ll be home wednesday afternoon or so. heeeck yeah, I am so ready.
after the lecture we went to an old building that has been taken over by squatting artists. every inch of the place is covered in graffiti, art wares for sale and gallery space.
our first night in berlin, after we slept all day, we went to a lecture on how climate change will affect the city of lagos in nigeria. it was pretty interesting to see the difference between this sort of event in the us and in germany. turns out the people were staying at are into activism and the sort, the girl does some support work with greenpeace, so it was nice to have a little in common with our hosts as opposed to karl’s cousins who may have been the polar opposite of me, hah.
while waiting for our overnight train to berlin, karl and i passed the time by playing war in a german irish pub. it was the only card game either of us could remember to play besides texas hold em poker. it elevated into a pretty exciting game with this triple-war hand for the possible win for me.
our next day in frankfurt karl and i just walked aimlessly around the city for hours and hours in- take a guess- the rain! we visited the cathedral there which is one, if not the only, building that was left standing in the city after world war two. In the lobby of the church there is a picture of the devestation from the war, rumble everywhere and right in the middle of it all is the church standing there tall and untouched. its surreal.
