My weekend so far.

On Friday, our history teacher took us to see this church. That dome that you see is actually flat. An artist painted the dome on canvas and it was installed in the church. If you stand at the right angle, it looks like a real dome! Cool, huh?


After our walking tour on Friday, a couple of my friends and I walked around the Borghese Gardens before going to the Villa Borghese to look at some art. The park is so pretty!


I found Roman lilacs in the Borghese Gardens!! You can just imagine how happy this made me.


A lake right in the middle of the Borghese Gardens.


Villa Borghese: home to hundreds of absolutely beautiful paintings and sculptures. I went here with a couple of friends after our history tour and I fell in love with Bernini. They have 4 of his statues here and it is amazing to see how absolutely great he is! I could seriously stare at one of his statues for hours... I don't think that i could say that about any other piece of art. Amazing. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures anywhere in the museum, so I don't have pictures of his statues :(


This is why I don't cook... I absolutely love this coffee machine, but I forgot to put the filter on this morning, and this is what happened to the kitchen. It was absolutely hilarious, but it took FOREVER to clean up! The coffee actually shot all the way across the kitchen and stained our white walls. Oops.


We went to see Richard Meier's Jubilee Church this morning (Saturday). Gorgeous. BUT closed. It was like a scavenger hunt to get there... it took us over 2 hours (two buses plus one metro ride) the stops were so hard to find and we had to have a customer at a cafe lead us to the final bus stop! But we made it there and we looked around the outside, which was exactly how I imagined it (although there is a huge fence that closes it off from the community, making it look more like a prison than a church) I'm going back tomorrow morning to see the inside!!

This week I am off to Sicily for a field trip with my class and then I head to Spring Break in Barcelona, Brussels, and Marseille with Marty. It's going to be an exciting couple of weeks!