Return to Rome

Today we took another train back to Rome, this time I chose to sit with the guides and a few of my classmates. When we got off of the train we went to the new convent we would be staying in and sorted out our rooms. Next we went to the Pantheon. The Pantheon is the most well preserved ancient Roman building in the world. Its gigantic and has a huge thirty foot wide ocular(intentional hole in the ceiling for light) at the top. Unfortunately no one was allowed to walk directly under the ocular because it had just been raining.

Next we came back to the convent and had some rest time before dinner where I noticed something quite funny. During dinner time in Rome there is often someone standing outside of the restaurant that they work in trying to wave people in. And when our large group walked by you could almost see the cash registers going off in their heads. The person who worked at the restaurant that we stopped at was very happy. As was the guy who worked at the gelato place that we stopped at. Also thanks to some kind of weird holiday that had been going on that weekend all of the girls had been getting into the museums and ancient cities free. So Don bought us all gelato with the extra money.

Also the showers in this last convent are very strange. They are simply shower heads attached to the walls. no tubs or shower curtains or anything.