Day 64 (5/24/11)

This morning I woke up and left for the Vatican to send out some postcards! I have heard varying reports on the time it takes for them to get out, so hopefully they will get there before I come home! After that adventure I stopped at the studio to get a bit of work done until a few of us met up to try to see Villa Giulia. We had to run back to the apartment first to grab some stuff, and this turned out to be our downfall. The most accessible means of transportation to get us there from Trastevere was by bus; sadly, most accessible also meant least effective and least pleasant. We spent about an hour on the slowest, hottest and smelliest (I tell myself that it could never be worse but every time it is) bus in all of Rome, so by the time we got there we were grumpy and had no time to see the Villa because we had to get back to class. We did get to walk through the Borghese Gardens for a little bit to try to find the Villa, but we ended up being unsuccessful so we walked back to the Metro.
When we got back to Piazza Spagna we stopped at McDonald’s for a quick lunch before heading to class. Today was our last day before the final, so we reviewed the past tense briefly, made up the biggest and best dialogues yet, and finished up by studying verb conjugation. After class our studio group left for the school to do some studio. On the way we decided to stop by the Trevi Fountain, which finally turned out to be somewhat calm. After a tourist picture of us throwing our coins in, we continued to studio. We ended up doing a lot of discussing about the models we had made already before making a new one. Our goal is to show these four to them tomorrow and make a final decision about our direction so we can really start to produce. After working for a few hours we came back home, I had my left over carbonara for dinner, and went to bed!