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Alright I knew it was coming. Knew I'd have to write about it eventually. I avoided it last night due to jet lag, this morning because of sheer laziness. But it's gotta be done. I gotta write an entry about Rome and all its strange glory, about being away from America in general. God, it's a weird feeling. And I've already told the story in its entirety twice now, so I doubt I'll be telling it again, at least until I get in touch with Alex. But for now let me just tell all of you to go to a foreign country if you ever have any sort of chance.
Because you will never, ever, EVER understand anything about life until you do. It's true. Not until you've been so sleep-deprived and jet lagged on a thirteen-hour flight you can't talk, gone a week without air conditioning, ice, or anything cold, run across a street in fear of your life because traffic laws don't exist, stood in the Colosseum and just stared, looked at ancient Roman porn in Pompeii, ordered something to eat with strange money in an entirely different language, watched beggars crawl up to you on their knees and beg you for some kind of mercy because they see you're American, had your leg molested by a fat man on an overcrowded bus because he thinks your teacher won't notice, flown over the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon in one trip, drunk Italian wine and soon regretted it, listened to Germans speaking and realized they sound like they're blowing their nose at you, stepped off a plane and realized for the first time in your life that not a single word in the vicinity is in English, that the air smells different, the sky looks funny and somehow older, and everybody can tell within seconds you're a tourist...until you realize and do all of that, consider yourself not fully developed. Then go. Go and see everything. Then come back and tell me about it, becuase then you'll understand what I can't describe.
For visual documentation and such, go here: http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y261/rainbow307/rome
It includes pictures from Pompeii, the Colosseum, the Vatican, the ancient Roman forum, city streets, views of Europe from our plane, the aforementioned porn in Pompeii, and my wonderful Latin teacher goofing off. There's also videos of the subway, the Colosseum, and the Vatican (in which my goofy Latin teacher's voice kinda dominates).
Let me say on a parting note that I am thrilled about seeing the lot of you in less than a week, but the thought of getting back on a plane makes me wanna hurl. xp
Brittastiq · Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 06:39am · 2 Comments |
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