Italy: Rome

This is part of a series of posts of my trip to Italy. 

Rome was our first stop on our trip to Italy. The trip I went on was with my school. I applied to Italy because I’ve always wanted to go there and I studied four years of Italian in high school. It was a group of 20 students and 2 professors. This was my first time overseas.



Our flight was about 8 or 9 hours (I watched a lot of movies on the flights because I didn’t have my music or laptop with me). We left in daytime in America and by the time we got to Rome, it was morning there so everyone was exhausted our first day.

I love the way the houses look like in Rome. I did this journal entry while in Rome. As part of our class, we were supposed to keep a journal of our experiences. I also decided to add sketches in my journal entries.




Rome was nice, but there was a lot of noise and traffic everywhere. There were also motorcycles everywhere. One day I liked was when we went shopping to this marketplace.


This was the Elephant and Obelisk sculpture by Bernini.



We went to all the basic famous sights, like The Colosseum, Sistine Chapel and Vatican. The Vatican was a lot of fun to visit. The top photo was a fountain located in St. Peter’s Square.



On one of our last nights, I went down to the Trevi Fountain with a couple other people. The Trevi fountain is the biggest fountain in Rome, designed by Bernini. It is traditional to toss a coin over the shoulder which means the thrower will return to Rome one day.

Check back next week for more photos from my trip to Italy. Have you ever been to Rome?