A Weekend in Roma

I had a fantastic weekend In Roma. On Saturday, we went to the national museum of Rome. There, they have sculptures of the Roman emperors. They tried to make them realistic instead of perfect like the greek sculptures. So if someone was bald or had a big nose, they showed it. The museum had a giant bronze sculpture of the goddess Minerva (Athena.) I took a picture with a flash accidentally, and the guard yelled at me. I think the picture came out great though. I also really liked the mosaics on the top floor of this museum; they showed stories of different greek and roman myths. On Sunday we went to the synagogue. We had to walk a long way on the Tiber river, but it was worth it because it was really interesting to learn about the history of the Jews in Rome. There was a lot of security around the synagogue because of threats of violence. We learned about what happened to Roman jews during world war 2. The nazis demanded that roman jews pay them five kilos of gold. When they raised the money and gave it to them, the nazis still rounded up Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Some priests and nuns helped hide them, but others tried to force them to convert. We also learned about how the pope last year came to the synagogue to meet with the head rabbi.