Ciao!
This is my first experience with blogging. This is actually my first experience with a lot of things. I am in Rome. La Città eterna! The eternal city. This past week has been completely chock-full of new experiences that have gotten me completely out of my comfort zone. I could go on for days about where we have been and what we have seen, but I think for now I'm just going to concentrate on one important aspect of being in Rome. This aspect is the lack of historical significance I feel as a person while being in this eternal city.

My life in America has been a bit on the dull side. I haven't seen a whole lot or experienced a lot. I've been in the same region for over 12 years. Coming to such a big city is completely daunting in itself, but coming to the most historically significant place in the world gives me more of a feeling that I have no historical background or no sense of how much there is to still discover about this world I inhabit.

In the past nine days, I feel as though I have seen so much. I have seen Michelangelo's David, the Colosseum , the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps... I could go on forever. In all of these experiences, our guide Susan could go on and on about all of the history about each place.

The one place I have felt a certain insignificance to myself is when we went to the Colosseum. This is a place I only have imagined in my head as a place of battle and historic entertainment, so when I saw it my reaction of feeling so small and so insignificant was very much expected. Being in a place that is so large and is 2,000 years old is a daunting concept to grasp. Being in a place that held the bodies of the most respected Roman Gods and Kings and looking at my insignificant self and my lack of experience and history is why I feel so out of place, but also so grateful that I could notice this, and make the decision to experience more and to not stop here in Rome, to open my brain for places all around the world so I can soak up all of the history and knowledge I can.

Till next time... Ciao.