Turin and Roman Through Italy: Back in Roma for the last few weeks

Scary thought: in 16 days from today, I will be on my way home. Ahh! The time is flying by and our finals are rapidly approaching and there is not enough time in each day. Christmas is coming and Rome is starting to show it. The streets all have lights hung up in between the buildings and little trees on the walls. There is even a huge Christmas market in one of the major piazzas. They have lots and lots of candy stands there with donuts and other Italian treats. There are also stands with Christmas ornaments and random little trinkets. Plus a carousel and game stands. Its like a little festival/carnival every day . Plus at night when everything is lit up its really cool to see.

One of the candy/sweet stands in the christmas market

mother church of the Jesuit order we visited during class

Wandering through Rome one day walking back from our history class, there was a huge mass of people that was cutting off traffic in half the city. This was one of many recent strikes that local students are starting to respond to the education system here. Sounds like there are quite a few issues they have to work out.

huge crowds of students blocking the streets

Saw another really good looking pizza place! Theres too many to try them all, but Im going to do my best haha.This time I got a pizza with salmon, clams, shrimp and anchovies. So awesome. I love seafood and pizza so its the perfect combo.

Huge and delicious

We got the chance to go to a church by Richard Meier about 15 miles outside the center of Rome. It was pretty unique and I had seen in published a bunch of times. Basically 3 shells create one side of the church. It was pretty impressive, and a lot better than the other Meier projects we saw.