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This past weekend has been a fun one! One of my suite-mates was proposed to on Valentine’s Day, which was exciting, and it was fun to see all the Valentine’s Day festivities in Italy going on everywhere. On Friday I had a field trip to the Church of the Four Martyrs, which was really cool- the frescoes were painted with the legend of Constantine, the result of one of the most infamous forged documents in history. The picture is of the cloisters at the church, where the Nuns lived- one of the few places we were allowed to take pictures, and also rather beautiful. We were allowed into the crypts below the church, where the four martyrs were buried, and explored them for a little bit. Rome has a lot of catacombs and crypts, but the surreal feeling when you enter them never gets old for me.

Afterwards, I went and met up with Amy at the Spanish Steps. It was really cool- I haven’t seen Amy in years! I saw on Facebook that she was studying in Italy, messaged her, and we decided to meet up on Friday. We had a fabulous lunch in Trastevere, walked around the city for a while, then met up with some of her friends at the Roman Forum. It was really fun, I gave them all a grand tour of the area, and I must say I was a pretty good tour guide- I’ve been learning a ton about the art, architecture and history of the area through my classes, and I know how to present things in a cool and interesting manner. They said I should become a tour guide as a side job while I’m here and make a little extra cash, since I’m so good at it! I’m multilingual and everything too, so who knows?

Saturday was relatively uneventful, one of my suite-mates and I ran around the city looking for a Judo place she could join for a few months, though everyone kept telling us the street we were looking for didn’t exist. Afterwards we decided to just go to the supermarket and stock up for the next week, ran some errands, then came back and cooked dinner and watched a movie. Today I’m getting caught up on homework and projects for school- or at least trying to!