Hey all.
How is it already the middle of November?! I feel like I just landed in Rome yesterday. Nothing much new to report…A few weekends ago we ventured up to Verona for a day and had a great time. There's a Roman amphitheater there that is amazing — it's a little smaller than the coliseum in Rome but is much better preserved; you feel like a Roman just being there. We also saw the House of Juliet (made famous by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet). Although there wasn't really much to see (just a balcony overlooking a courtyard with a bronze statue of Juliet in it), the gateway through which you walk was filled with thousands love letters and wedding photos that people had pinned up on the walls as they passed by. Classes are going about the same. Our language skills are definitely improving (slowly but surely), but it's still just as hard to understand what's going on in the lesson.
That's all for now – I've got to finish packing for my trip to Spain! More to come when I get back…