A Week in Roma

Mi Dispiace, that is Italian for I am sorry. I am sorry I haven't been able to blog this week but I have been very busy. My mom's friend is in town who goes by the name of Jinny.
On Monday, we went to the Keats Museum. For those of you who don't know who Keats is, John Keats is one of the original British Romantic Poets. I really enjoy his poetry, so the museum was really interesting. He died in Rome, by the Spanish steps. The museum is the house where he died; they even have his bed. He was only twenty five. One of my favorite poems of his is Bright Star. Here it is.
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
...Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
...Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
...Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
...Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
...Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
...Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
...And so live ever--or else swoon to death.




On Tuesday, we did homework all day and then for a reward we saw my favorite movie of the year "The King's Speech." It had just won the Academy Award! We couldn't watch them because they were on at two in the morning, and we don't have TV.
On Wednesday, we went to the farmers market and got a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. 

On Thursday, we went to Antique Roma. It was an exhibit on some of Roma's Ancient artwork. Then, we got an amazing Nutella crepe in Piazza Navona. I really like the fountain of four rivers in Piazza Navona. Then, we went to Frigadarium where they take their already amazing Gelato and dip it in warm chocolate with a cookie on top. It is the thing I wait for all day. Today, the guy let us go back there and help him work on the gelato and we got to hang out and have big things of Nutella. It was so much fun. After, we went back to Saint Peters, so we could walk up to cupola again. The Cupola is 550 steps; it is so much fun.