Friday was an awesome day! Class was really fun we had free time in the middle of the day to hang out and shop around if we liked. Then we had dinner at the Vatican and had a tour of the Vatican Museum, which includes the Sistine Chapel.
While at the Vatican Museum we saw so many ancient paintings and artifacts that I can barely remember any of them, my mind was overfilled with all of the amazing things they have packed inside the museum. My favorite part, though, was for sure the Sistine Chapel.
Before we went in, our tour guide gave us a brief lesson on the paintings inside. It’s crazy to think that there were so many hidden messages, symbols, and even people in them. Michelangelo put himself in two of the paintings in the Sistine chapel, one showing him as a normal man in his 30’s and the other depicting him being an old worn out man in his 60’s by being nothing but empty skin that was being held by another man.
Our guide also told us about the cleaning of the chapel and how they had left certain spots to show how dirty it had become, so I made it my mission to find them all. I was able to count 27 of them but I couldn’t get the actual number of spots from any of the staff or tour guide. I was very drawn in to a painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of God giving life to Adam I don’t know why I was so intrigued with this one but I found myself staring at it for several minutes, just taking in all the detail.
That day in class we discussed multinational corporations. I never really thought of their influence on the culture of the country they’re in or how they can manipulate the government in some of the third world countries. I am very much more interested in finding out more about these company and how they treat their workers in third world countries that don’t have set wages or time limits and other laws that protect Americans from being abused by their companies. Multinational corporations are good for third world countries, too. They can help raise the economy and bring people out of poverty, but they can most definitely treat their workers better.