Today we went to see the Coliseum and the other ruins around it. It\u2019s so hard to explain what it is like in the Coliseum, but for starters it was defiantly smaller than most pictures make it out to be. Not in a bad way but in a \u201chuh I wonder how they did navel battles\u201d type of way. It still was big but you could tell they wanted all the people that went to be able to see in some way. \u00a0I found it interesting that all the signs in the Coliseum had Italian and English translations under it.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the case for a lot of Rome so it was really cool. I\u2019m guessing the English tourism is the main selling point for the Coliseum so to make it easier they have translations.\u00a0 Even though we went to a lot of ruins there were one in particular that really had me awe struck. It was Julius Caesar\u2019s resting place (grave). It was simple but I found it very wonderful how the people of Rome still put flowers on his grave. That amount of respect is so, in a way, touching that I had to take a picture of the place. You cover him in like 15 minutes in most history classes but you never are able to truly understand how important he was to the Roman people unless you see his burial with new flowers on it. It\u2019s so fascinating to see that people are often giving him flowers like he is a family member. But unfortunately I am unable to show any of my own pictures due to technical issues with my camera, where all my pictures were erased. It\u2019s a shame but the memories that I have are what\u2019s important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we went to see the Coliseum and the other ruins around it. It\u2019s so hard to explain what it is like in the Coliseum, but for starters it was defiantly smaller than most pictures make it out to be. Not in a bad way but in a \u201chuh I wonder how they did navel … Continue reading Day two: where did all my pictures run off to? by Christian Bean<\/span>