Today was an interesting day; there was actually a long break between class and the tour for that day. Though I have to admit that I was kind of disappointed that we had no more classes in the morning, I really did enjoy the conversations we got into. After class the day was nice, we went to look at a bunch of different shops and vendors that were around so I was able to get a real feel for what it was like during the day in Rome. I enjoyed walking around and looking at the people move, there was a huge difference between the tourist and the residents. The residents were more go go go and the tourists tented to look around more. It led to an interesting thought, how much of my own home town do I not notice.

When I’m back I should try to look at where I live in the eyes of someone new to the States, I may gain some perspective. After the shopping we went back to the hotel, then to dinner, and finally to our tour of the day; The Vatican museum. Now I’ll be honest I really didn’t know what to expect from the Vatican museum, with everything else I had something to compare it too, like a movie, book, game, ect. Everything else we saw were things you’d see often in media but the Vatican museum was something that I didn’t see in media very often. So it was a nice surprise when I walked through it and saw things that I didn’t know the Vatican had. For example the map room was awesome, I love how it was the Vaticans way (in the older days) of saying “these are all the people that will come to save our us if you try to do anything stupid like attack us, so behave yourself”, they didn’t play around back then. The one thing that was really awesome though was the Sistine Chapel. It was at the very end of the museum and was worth the weight; it was so cool looking and had such great art work that I really enjoyed being their looking at it. I find it funny though that Michelangelo didn’t even want to work on it but did an amazing job none the less, he just could not really do much wrong when it comes to art could he?