In Rome

Weather is nice here. Sun is shining. Wore T-shirt and Jeans yesterday and will do the same today.

The old part of Rome is smaller than I expected. It took only a couple hours to see the Coliseum, the Forum, Capitol Hill and the Panthenon. I bought a book on Rome, so I willgo back and visit these places in more depth.

At the colliseum there was a person who had staged a protest against the Italian president regarding jobs. He (or she) was sitting about 75 feet under one of the archways with signs attached to the colliseum. The police had courtioned off the area and had inflated this 20 by 30 foot air mattress under where he/she was staying.

Maybe because it is so small.. but yesterday was a bit funny because I kept running into people I met before. First I ran into Aho and Emily who I met in Amsterdam on the street near the hostel. Then I met Sylvia who I met on the train. Then I walked onto a set for a Roberto Begnini movie (from Life is Beautiful) and watched him drive a car back and forth (he looked pretty bored and frustrated). On my way back to the hostel I met Mohammed (an online SE from EA/NBA) and his wife walking on the street.

Today I am heading over to the Vatican and Vatican City.