so ive already been home for a week and a half but wanted to post these pictures now that i'm ready to do it. i was really sad to leave rome but now i'm ready to post some pictures from our goodbye dinner at la limonaia. i'm not going to write an entry with this one cause it'll make me too sad. but here are the pictures anyway.





































and of course i got stuck in london overnight which was an absolute nightmare. and as much as it was awful and the worst experience in my life, it was still a free night in london in a swank hotel room that cost 200 pounds a night. here are some pictures of my hotel room.













ok well i guess thats it for this blog. i made this specifically for my semester abroad and that's over now. so...that's it.

as jesse's last day, she and i went out on the town to do some touristy stuff. we took the bus to the bookstore to sell back our books and then, from there, walked to la bocca della verità. it was a bit farther than we expected but we still got there on time and got to take a picture with it. there we are.


after, we decided we were hungry and improvised a bit and headed over to l'archetto, the spaghetteria. yeah we know it was lunch time, but it was our last meal out together and i found it only appropriate that we were both having the chanel spaghetti at l'archetto. after feeling like complete fatties, we walked down to the colosseum to see it one last time and to see the tree out there. here's a picture of it.


after, we took a stroll up via del corso to hit up a few stores and then came home so that i could turn in my paper and movie and chill with our other roommate. i don't have any pictures from last night mostly cause we were mostly just chillin and packing but it definitely was really sad. i said goodbye to my roommate this morning around 640 when her cab got here. i tried really hard not to cry, but i couldn't really help it. i'm also not worried cause i have no doubt in my mind that ill get to see my roomate again.

as for tonight, IES is throwing us a going away dinner at la limonaia...the place we all had our first lunch together. i'm excited to see everyone for the last time and to have an amazing 20 course dinner as IES always gives us. woot for being a fatty on your last day in rome.

sunday night a big group of us headed out to the olympic stadium to watch the soccer game. this weekend, AS Roma played Palermo. the game was so so much fun especially since Rome kicked ass and they REALLY don't like sicilians. there's nick and justin outside of the stadium.


and this is some pregame fire.


here's a picture of me, steph, and melissa at the game.


and here are the two teams all lined up before the game started.


this is the game now in action.


this is the palermo section. they were given a small section in the corner and were instructed to stay in their seats after the game ended and all of the roma fans were gone. there were all kinds of things being thrown including fires and firecrackers.


this is now the palermo section after palermo almost scored. the riot police showed up and did not leave.


this is one of the fire bombs thrown into the palermo section.


there is some guy in front of us flipping off the palermo section after we scored.


melissa and justin with their goal faces.


steph and me.


waving the flag after we scored.


domenico. i forget exactly what his comment was on this photo but it had something to do with getting little sleep, taking drugs, and then getting hit by the ugly hippy stick.


theres stephanie with the field.


penalty kick where totti scored. woot.


this is me and my roommate at the game.


and this is the crowd singing "grazie roma" after we won.


gotta love the calcio<3

i thoroughly enjoy IES people and IES Rome.

we headed out to the vatican to do some souvenir shopping and see the square for the last time before heading back to the united states. the square was really cute esp since they erected a tree that is almost as tall as the obelisk. here are some pictures of the square and jesse and me in it.




so then we took the train to piazza di spagna and saw this cute little choir of italian children singing english christmas carols with accents and messing up some of the words. so cute though.


so then last night we started in the apartment and then headed out to cheap bar to meet all the other IES people. here are some pictures of us in our apartment.




and at the bus stop.



on the bus.



in piazza navona.


at cheap bar.
















rock castle.






after rock castle, meredith, lauren, jesse, and me headed out to club sin in testaccio and had a friggin blast. there were a bunch of IES people there that we ended up hanging out with and meeting all these italian people too. i dont have any pictures from sin...but it was quite a good time. as per usual, i fell down the stairs...so we all know the night was complete.