GL350 Blog Week 2

Its been two weeks now and let me tell ya, this past week has been all over the place. I had two not so great experiences with riding the train. Its hard adjusting to not being able to drive my own car and relying on public transportation. On Tuesday, we had a free day where we could go out and work on our walking tours. So Gabby and I headed out to our spot and wandered around for a while. It was getting cold so we went back to Termini and we were looking at the sign for what train we had to take back to campus. It was weird because we had planned to take the 14:23 train but all the signs had 8 am times. We kept standing there waiting for the times to change but it never did. I looked over to my right and saw another board with the times on it and it said that our train was bin 18, one that is 400 meters away. I looked at my watch and it said 2:23, which was the time it was suppose to be leaving so we sprinted to the train, just to see it pull away. We were heartbroken mostly because it was cold out and when we walked back to the station, it started to rain. ): 

Then two days later, Gabby, Katie Dodds and I decided to go to Termini to buy a few things and we took the 14:23 train back to campus. It broke down about 5 minutes from the Campino stop and we were stuck there for about 45 minutes. They kept saying announcements over the intercom but it was all in Italian and we didn't understand what they were saying so we were able to figure out that we were all getting off at Campino and another train was going to come get us. We waited at the station there for another 20 minutes before the train finally came. Once we got off the train, it started to pour on our walk back and by the time we got back, we were all soaking wet and we missed carving pumpkins.

With my experiences from this past week, I would have to disagree in a way with Barzini when he says that Rome is the best place. In the Smiles book, Jane Alison talks about Ovid and how he gets exiled from Rome and he asks if he can take Rome with him. Ovid loves the city and thinks it's the end of the world that he has to leave. Overall, yes I love Rome but when we had issues with the train, I wanted to go back to the U.S.