This week is the most dreaded week of the semester: finals. I had my first, and most difficult, on Monday morning at 10am. It was Italian and it went.... okay. I guess we'll have to wait and see. After class I went home and slept because I was still exhausted from the weekend. On Tuesday I just hung out around the apartment and relaxed because I didn't have any exams.
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| Last night at Gilda with Reza, Dana, Nicole, and our favorite promoter Mike |
Tuesday night we had our CEA farewell dinner for our program. It is so weird that we're at that stage considering I keep thinking we're taking midterms right now, not finals. Anyway, CEA did NOT want us to leave Rome with any chance of forgetting about the amazing pasta here. In fact, after the bread and appetizer of fresh cheese and meats, they served us not one... not two.. but FOUR servings of pasta. Then gelato, of course. There goes any progress I had made on losing any sort of weight in the past couple of weeks. After our ridiculously large dinner, a bunch of us headed out to celebrate Italian Liberation Day, considering we had a break from exams and classes the next day. We headed to good ol' Campo dei Fiori for awhile before going to Gilda. It was so much fun having everyone together for one of our last nights in Rome.
Wednesday we all spent the day sleeping and studying all day. I had an Art History final this morning, so I spent the time writing a paper for that and studying the 50 different paintings, sculptures, and architecture we needed to know for that. It was exhausting, to say the least, but now I know all about Bernini and can probably give a personal tour of Galleria Borghese. I stayed at my friend's house until 3am studying before realizing I couldn't walk home alone that late and had to sleep on the floor. So comfy, not. The next morning I woke up at 7am freezing and walked home to my own bed before getting back up at 9:30 to start studying. Luckily, it all paid off because I'm pretty sure I passed my exam with flying colors.
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| new ear piercing |
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| Sally, Monet, Liza, and I with our piercer |
After our exam, we decided we need another break from finals (I never get this many breaks during finals week in Clemson...) and headed to the tattoo parlor. Don't worry mom and dad, I didn't get a tattoo! Monet got a tattoo she had been wanting for awhile, and Liza, Sally, and I got ear piercings. We wanted to get something to remember our time here, and we thought getting a piercing together would be a good way to do that. After all, I got my nose pierced in Barcelona and my second holes done in Destin... might as well continue the tradition ;). The piercing place was really good about sterilization and the piercer spoke English, which was a change from when I got my nose done in Barcelona.
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| Liza and I on our rooftop terrace |
When we finished with our piercings/tattoos we headed home to start studying again. On our way home, we had heard that we actually had rooftop terraces on our apartments so we went up to check. Um, wish I would've found out about these before my last week here. It was GORGEOUS. There are these huge terraces that overlook most of Rome. You can even see the mountains in the background. Now I can tell you where I'm going to be for the entire next week while it is high 70s here.
Anyway, it's time for me to get back to studying. I have my last final at CEA tomorrow, international marketing. It's so weird to think that this is going to be the last time I ever step in our humble CEA villa, and in a little over a week I'll be heading back to reality in the United States.
Speaking of reality, I just found out I'm working a double the day after I get home. Hellooooo culture shock of fried food and responsibility.
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