Day 6 - Rome V (Last fully day here)

Today we were scheduled to go listen to some lectures at the local university at their engineering building. I didn’t get my camera battery charged before this afternoon, so I only got a couple pics this morning with my cell phone camera. We got up and ready at 8:30am and walked over to the university, which was located closely to the Colosseum. When we arrived there, we met a one of the faculty, Dr. Stephania Arangio, who Dr. Erdogmus knew, and she with a few other professors and PhD students shared about their research that they have worked on and are currently working on. After this, Dr. Arangio showed us around their engineering building which the upperclassman students have classes in, which is off the main campus. She also shared a little about how the college experience, student attitudes, and universities in general were different in Italy from ours in America. It was very interesting the things that she said and talked about; it makes me very happy and pleased that I get to study at the university that I do. Then went and saw the church that is right next door to that engineering building which had a sculpture by Michelangelo. After that we went to lunch and took a subway to go see the main campus for Università La Sapienza in Rome. There campus is a small campus for the size of the university; they have around 145,000 students who go there and it was probably no bigger than UNO. It was interesting to just see all the students hanging out laying in the grass around campus. After she showed us around a little bit, we took the subway back to the Colosseum and walked back to the hotel. We talked about preparing for leaving tomorrow for Florence, and then we just relaxed in the hotel and I caught up on my journaling/blogging and just rested.

Then a group of nine of us went to a restaurant that we had the night where the other table spent 130+ Euros and we really enjoyed tonight. After we had finished our meal, we went to get gelato some stuff to drink and went back to the hotel. Some of us had decided earlier that we wanted to go see the Colosseum at night. So after we a little fun in the hotel, Kate, Jen, Brian, Cameron, Ariel, and I headed out. It was extremely cool to see everything lit up at night time. We captured some good photos of the government building we had seen and there were birds flying all around the top of it and were lit up because of all the lights. Then we arrived at the Colosseum and where we got some phenomenal photos of it and we had some fun just taking pictures. We also saw a couple getting their wedding photos done by the Colosseum. We were all laughing a lot, chatting, and having a good time. It was a very good way to spend the night in our last full day in Rome.