Today was my first day in Rome and after 11 hours of flying to get there and not sleeping on the plane, the only site I wanted to see was the bed but then I saw that Saint Peters Cathedral was 3 minutes away from us. That kind of made it hard to think about sleep. After we dropped off our luggage we went on a quick orientation tour, it was nice to see around the area and hear the Pope speaking to the public later that day. The crowd to see him was massive, it astounded me that one man can have such an impact on people, it was really cool to see all these people from different nationalities join to see one person. Though I couldn’t understand a single word the Pope said I bet it was holy and wise. After that we took a break.

When we were all settled in we got ready and went to Saint Peter’s Cathedral for mass. Now that was an amazing site, that church was so mind blowing beautiful and astounding that I have trouble putting it into words. No picture in the world can catch what it feels to be in there. It’s like the world around me was so much bigger and my world seemed to freeze. It was wonderful; I was astounded that this was built so long ago.  Just the sheer magnitude of the church is so jaw dropping that there is no way to describe it. After heading back to the room, me and my roommate Ben laid back and talked about everything we saw that day. Then after a nice conversation I slipped into a comforting sleep.

This trip is going to be amazing.