Thursday, March 19th
Today we took the early train into the city for our group
tour of the Rome Aqueducts! Our tour guide Margarita, was very knowledgeable
and lead us on a great tour of the Parco degli Aquedotti, the Park of the
Aqueducts. The Aqueduct Park is a public park in Rome that is part of the
Appian Way Regional Park, which means it is a protected area in Rome. We
learned so much about how the aqueducts were built and how they work, as well
as how they were targeted by barbarians over the centuries because destroying
the water source to Rome was the one way to take the city.
After the Aqueduct tour, we went to our homestay
orientation. As a part of our Global Learning class, we have all been paired up
and assigned to a host family that will be housing us all of next week! We will
be having breakfast and dinner with our host family as well as staying at their
home every night. We will still have class and a few site visits during the
days next week, but aside from that we will truly be living like Romans do! It
is both exciting and a little scary, however I know it will be a great
experience for all of us to get the real feeling of Italian culture in Rome.
After spending the beautiful day in Rome, we came back to
have dinner on campus and had a progressive euchre tournament before we all
went to bed. After our euchre games were over, I got all packed and ready to go
to Sorrento for the weekend! We leave tomorrow morning, and I could not be more
excited!!
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