Rome Korean Hostel

... government since the last real King of Italy abdicated in 1943. Silvio is king now, owns the largest private broadcasting companies and controls all the public ones. Soccer and game shows with big breasted women account for most of the TV programming. News is for Albanians.

The place can be so profound and so trivial. Piazza Navona, an oval laid out 2000 years ago as an arena, and occasionally flooded for battle re ...

... to try my luck with whoever was setting off first if I ever come again. 30 mins later and we were off. Driving in there did seem to be a number of ruins - although quite how old they are, I'm not sure.

Small cars were very much in evidence - Smart cars parked sideways. Lots of scooters were parked but I didn't see many on the road till I saw a convoy of about 20 weaving through one of the back streets all wearing the same silks covering their helmets ...

... Italy!) Had lunch at a place near Campo di Fiori, was down a little cobblestone alleyway and was really hard to find, but ultimately worth it! The waitress spoke no English and our fellow patrons were all locals seemingly on a long lunchbreak. I just said 'Sono vegetariano' (not even sure if that is gramatically correct!), but she nodded and returned with a plate piled high with steaming spaghetti with a tomato and basil sauce and loads of ...

... the situation here in Rome, we only had ONE opinion throughout the quarter...that of our professor. She has a different agenda and I now realize that my creative idea got squashed into something that had to be practical, and had to be a retail space that could SELL, and my furniture designs had to be practical and not too expensive. BORING. So it turned to ****, what can I say? I am happy to say that what I walked away with is the knowledge ...

... Argentina ruins) and random little places on our way to all these places. I am constantly fascinated by the juxtaposition of famous works of architecture like the Colosseum and the Pantheon with the modern aspects of the city (i.e. cars, vespas, buses, metro). It amazes me that so many Romans see these buildings every day on their way to work or school or whatever. Of course, at the end of our VERY ...

... very nice hostel. Quite cramped and dirty. On July 10th we went and did tourist stuff. We walked to the Colosseum and took a guided tour. It kind of stunk but we got some good information from it. We then walked to the ancient palaces and meandered around the ruins for an hour or two. It´s cool, but to be honest ancient ruins only excite me so much. At night I had a party bug in me so we went to the Old Station ...

... down the restaurant. Alison is a fascinating woman, who is a hippie of the sixties and who in the seventies was the first female manager at Johnson and Johnson, on her way up the corporate ladder to be the big boss. But after having to do the dirty work and fire people when so called "downsizing" started happening, she realized the corporate world wasn't for her. After firing the first three men and crying along with them, she quit. She now owns a number of companies ...

... are not on a journey to live in luxuries lap. We need a place to rest our heads at night and a few drawers to store our clothes.......this will suffice just fine. A few pictures on the walls and it may just feel like home. Things are going to be different in Italy.....that's what this whole thing is about....leaping outside that comfort zone, and existing within it.....being both inspired, and at the same time terrified, by the unknown.

... so starving. Monday, we walked all over the city seeing all of the sites in Rome. We saw a former Bowdoinite for the second time (first time in Vernazza). We attempted to go see Vatican City, and on the way there an old blind woman latched onto Audrey´s arm and proceeded to chatter on in Italian. We finally figured out that she needed help crossing the bridge, and eventually got her there. She was cute. There were so many people going to ...

... my knife work. The chef was almost amazingly quick with his knife and I wanted to be taught how to do it. I tried and was doing so well after some pointers from him, unfortunately I then decided to add a last minute ingredient to the recipe - part of my finger. I had slipped or something or my attention was diverted by smart **** comments from fellow class-mates, and I had cut my finger. At first I thought it was just ...