A New Direction

Ottobre 3, 2010

Today Aneta, Sasha, and I were supposed to meet at "The Space", a cinema in Piazza Repubblica to go see the Julia Roberts film, 'Mangia. Prega. Ama.', at 16.00. I got there a little early, checked my email at McD's and found Aneta there as well, she skypes with her former host family, who are now in New York, as often as she can. It came time to meet and go to the film, but we couldn't seem to find Sasha. Apparently, something had come up and so Aneta and I watched the movie together. I enjoyed the movie, I didn't get all the details since it was in Italian, but I got the big points. Aneta said she thinks she would have enjoyed it more in English as well.

After the film we went for a 'passagiata', a walk down the streets. We covered a lot of ground. We went from the center of Roma to the Pantheon, to Giolitti, near Trajan's Column, to Fontana di Trevi, Campo di Fiori, Piazza Navona (my Rick Steves knowledge of certain sites was useful in these places ;), then we went to Piazza San Pietro, she took me to her old neighborhood, Trastevere, a beautiful panorama of Roma near the Spanish Embassy, Piazza Garibaldi, and all over... She even took me by the Bambino Gesu hospital, just so I'd know where it is, but I doubt I could easily find it by myself. Probably the coolest thing we did though was when we were somewhere near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, we happened to come across the home where Julia Robert's character lived in the movie! It had the same tiny door, the same giant call button selection, the same terrace that over looked the alley between the streets. It was a little different, like the terrace didn't have the greenery on it, there was some construction inside it (yes we opened the door and looked inside) but other than that, it was exactly the same... the street signs and everything were all original and still there, and I thought it was very interesting. Fun times.

Giolitti's was delicious, a little over priced, but the Carmelleta con fighi... was amazing! Sweet and smooth, and this time, they were a little more generous with the serving size as opposed to last time... miniscule at best, but they were kind of swamped with customers then too.

After a long walk up, down, around, across, and through Roma, we called it a night and headed to the Termini to catch our respective buses back to our homes. Aneta had to start classes in the morning and I had to... wake up? Ok, yeah, let's go with that. I found a McDonalds closer to my flat than the Train Station, it's around a 15 minute walk. 10 going there since it's mostly down hill. ;) So until the internet actually decides to function properly, I'll start to become a 'regular'.

Duck Dodgers was right, the time machine worked, he is now in the 20th century, 1955 to be exact, and is lost amongst poodle skirts, slick hair, leather jackets, and fun music... what ever will he do?


~DANCE BREAK~


Iggy and Shirley help DD back to his broken time machine and with the power of Rock and Roll, send him back to the 24 1/2 century.

(I hope your dance break was as much fun as mine... it consisted of 'Grease's: "You're the One That I Want"')