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So we got up kind of early and ate some breakfast. Then we started for Pompeii which was about a 1.5 hour drive from the farmhouse. We got there and they had these huge lemons! HUGE! I mean, like as big as my head huge! It was incredible. I gave my presentation on Pompeii while we were waiting to get our tickets and that was really good. I thought it went well and that people thought it was interesting. I thought it was interesting. I wanted to know when the coliseum was built because a lot of the brick work was similar and I thought that was super cool. I was so excited to be there and see it all but I was so disappointed because there weren’t really very many good souveniers to get there. Oh, and my camera died about 1 hour into it. We were there for a total of 4 hours so that was super sad but Alaina took some pictures for me.
Then we drove back towards Paestum and stopped to see the Paestum excavations which were actually Greek temples. It was really neat to get to see the difference between those temples and the ones we saw back in Rome. We were done after that. No more class. She is going to check our sketches and maybe journals on the long drive tomorrow and we still have a test thing but for the most part we are finished.
My nose and allergies have been going crazy today. It was so sad, I was using my hankie like all day long and still felt stuffy. I took my medication that I brought but it just must have been a rough day. We came back and I unloaded my suitcase and repacked it. All of my clothes have this odd smell to them. I can’t wait to clean them all. My roommates and I went out for a walk and found some lemon trees. So they grabbed a couple lemons and we ate them like it was an orange. I am sure our faces were precious.
We had a group dinner tonight then and it was by far the best food. We had this bruschetta type stuff with bread and tomatoes and onions and stuff and—because we asked for some—we got some buffalo mozzarella cheese which is what this farm is known for. It was wonderful. Then we got these mozzarella stick things which ended up being mashed potatoes which was also spectacular. Then they gave us some pasta with cheese something and some sort of vegetable and then we got chicken. THEN it was time for dessert (I know, I am going to feel so deprived when I get back to the States) which was, of course, splendid. After dinner we went around and told our favorite memories from the trip. That was fun.
I have always had a bit of a thing for old buildings but now I realize that I have fallen in love with arches. It will be so lame to go back to the US where there are few arches and no old buildings—at least not compared to here. I hope that I will be able to go someplace with lots of old buildings and arches someday in my life. But this trip has been good for me. It gave me time to figure out my purpose for the summer and readjust my attitude. I am really excited to be back in the States and get started on the things I have waiting for me. I still have another 10+ days so I this will be my vacation but when I get home it’s back to work.
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