Daily Updates
Week Two: Oct. 4
Today was our second day in a row off from academics, but we still managed to fit in our three R’s: resting, writing, and robbery. After the long night of celebrating birthdays (Cordelia’s and…ahem…mine) and welcoming Paige, many of us decided we were deserving of a long night’s slumber. So sleeping in a little was the order of the day. And yes, sleeping until 9:30 does count as sleeping in here. But with the impending due date of our second paper, we couldn’t very well spend all of the day in bed, as wonderful as that would have been. So the vast majority of us spend the vast majority of another lovely day in Rome hard at work analyzing the painted tombs of Etruscan Tarquinia. A few of us also managed to find time to perform research for our ISP projects today too. Notably Myung-hee scoured early imperial female busts at the Capitoline Museum, Joanna trekked to the Baths of Caracalla, Katherine studied early Christian mosaics at the Vatican Museum (after stopping briefly to take a look at the bones of St. Peter in the necropolis below St. Peter’s Basilica), and Maya perused sourcebooks at Dartmouth’s Roman library and classroom facility. This afternoon Professor Ulrich and Elizabeth led an optional sojourn outside Rome to a public park and the site of a few Aurelian aqueducts. Sarah, Ariel, and Karen took them up on the offer. One other note. Tonight Matt, Sarah, Courtney, Brian, and Maya went out for Chinese food, and Maya and Courtney ordered some rather sketchily translated items: “bean crud” and “rice woodle” respectively. Both were very good.
04 October. Waiting for the metro on our way to the aqueducts
04 October. The Roman metro, one of two lines
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. The aqueducts
04 October. Waiting for the bus back to the Sole