The Silver Lining

This week has just flown by. I remember Monday, first day of classes back from break, thinking on my way to school how it felt like it was mid-week. Yesterday rolls around, and somewhere in the 5 hours I between classes, I realized I only have one class left before my weekend begins. It felt like only moments before that I was on my way to my first class of the week.

Got my midterms back this week. I was so confident when I walked out of my Middle East midterm. I thought I got no less than a 95. Prof. said he graded them quite brutally. I wound up with a 92.5 :-)

Italian will probably require a little more effort to remain in the A- range. I'm just clinging to it at the moment. Photography... well, I have no idea if anyone has any grade in there at all so far. But I have a pretty good idea how I'm going to do.
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If I were to describe the stage we're at in Rome right now, I'd compare it to midlife crisis, maybe. Now that we're at fallbreak+5, it's started to sink in for everyone that we only have 5 weeks left. We had been in a routine of going out to the same places in Rome, and we were past the initial excitement to explore Rome. Now we're once again filled with enthusiasm to find new bars we haven't been too, and see all the sites we still need to see.

Today, Gwen, JD, and I attempted to find Appia Antica. We made it to Porto San Paolo and walked from there. Turned out to be a bit of a walk, but it was nice. We stopped at the Catacombs of San Callisto. Neat place. We saw a mere fraction of it. I guess it covers 33 acres, and goes 4 levels deep. We only went down to the first two levels, and covered no more than 1/2 an acre.

When we were done, it was late afternoon already. Thanks to the hour fall back a couple weeks ago, it meant we had no more than an hour left of sunlight. But it was a beautiful day, and the best time for great light, as you can see by the picture.