Exploring Italian monuments in Rome by Austin Hart

 

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Today we went to see Trevi fountain and the Parthenon and a few other sights (mostly fountains). Unfortunately when we got to the Trevi fountain it was closed so they could do some work on it.

The Parthenon is huge and feels huge, unlike with St. Peter’s dome where I knew it was huge, but it didn’t quite look like it was as big as I knew it was.

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I can also remember looking at few different stores, and the few I took interest in were either generic types of souvenir stores, or ones that we already have back in the US. After that we all went to a plaza where there were a bunch of big screens hung up to show the game between Uruguay and Italy. The Italians that slowly gathered as the game went on didn’t react much for the most part.

Every once in while I saw a couple of them grab their heads when the Italian players missed a goal near the end, and some dissent could be heard whenever the referees made a bad call (mostly, if not all, against Italy). I could tell it was bad, and I don’t even know much about soccer. I can’t believe that the Uruguayan player, Suarez, bit an Italian player’s shoulder, and got away with it (even after the Italian player showed the bite marks).

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