Italain Arch Presentations, Part Due

Remember way back when at the beginning of Rome, I made a post about going to Roma Tre, the architecture school, and listening to their grad student presentations? No, didn't think so, but anyway... We went back to show them our interpretations of the same project. There wasn't a lot of time to give the presentations, so Lisa and Beatrice had to choose only a couple projects to present, and our was one of them. So we presented. However, right before we were supposed to present, we found out that nobody at the school had a computer that ran powerpoint 2007, so we had to mad dash our way back to our apartments, and borrow someone's computer who had it...stressful! But in the end, everything was ok.

Free Gelato Day!

After presenting our Aqueduct Mapping, that we worked long and hard on, we all went our for some free gelato from a little shop on Trastevere.

Our line was out the door, 32 people, one tiny shop, you do the math.

We were allowed to any gelato we wanted, up to 5 euros worth. Some of them got pretty big...

Joe and his gelato

From left: Lindsey, Maiko, Evan and Lyndsey enjoy their gelato

Susan and Lewis and, you guessed it, more free gelato

Jessie's gelato, molte grande

From left: Dan, Joe, Mary and Diana and their gelati!

so excited about gelato!

I got some frutti di bosco (mixed berries), kiwi, ananas (pineapple) and fragole (strawberry) gelato

Trevor + Amy + gelato = love.

Tuesday Blues

Today was studio from 9am-4:30pm, then Italian class from 5pm-7pm, then home to eat, then more studio, then a couple hours of shut eye. It was pouring rain all day. Maybe that was a good thing, to distract me from wanting to go outside, forcing me to work all day on mapping the Aqueduct walk. Its due tomorrow, and then it will be on to finishing up the next project. 23 days left in Europe.

Just Another Manic Monday

Itinerary:

6:00 wake up
6:10 shower
6:30 dressed and eating breakfast
7:00 packing up my things for school
7:45 arrive at school
8:00 print some of my work to be put up on the wall for the director of Knowlton (OSU Architecture school) so she can look at some of the work we have been doing through this quarter during her visit to Rome.
8:30 continue working on Architecture: independent study project, travel log, mapping of the Roman Aqueducts
12:00 go home and rescue Adam from our apartment (he locked himself IN this morning- can anyone say "fire hazard?") and eat lunch
13:00 head back to school
13:30 keep working in our studio space on projects listed above
15:30 head home, go to grocery store
16:00 put food away, get online and check email
17:00 go over to the other 9 person apartment, and meet with group to discuss our aqueduct mapping
19:00 back in my apartment, working on yet more Architecture stuff
19:30 eat dinner
21:00 more architecture
21:30 pass out.

Pantheon Pentacoste

We have been waiting for this day since we arrived in Rome, the chance to see the Pentacoste in the Pantheon. However, when we arrived, an hour before Sunday services even started, they weren't allowing any tourists to go inside, only people there for Sunday mass...so, we said we were there for mass, and they let us in. Downside? We had to stand through the entire ROMAN Catholic mass. It only lasted an hour, not too bad. Then we were there, in the middle of the Pantheon, for the end of the service, when they dropped hundreds of thousands of red rose petals from the oculus. Bellisimo!

See the rose petals in the beam of light from the oculus?

Awesome.


This went on for at least 5 minutes



SOOOO many petals!

Then they dropped the rest all at once

Firemen standing guard as people rush to the center of the Pantheon to catch petals

view of the center from the floor...a sea of rose petals

And for your viewing pleasure:

A song sung during mass in the Pantheon: