So a couple weekends ago I had a fieldtrip to Rome with my Roman Empire class. Our teacher is extremely interested in the subject and very knowledgeable (thankfully) and so he was a great person to go on a trip to Rome with. He showed us nearly everything that still exists of ancient Rome in Rome today. The only bad thing was that, since he was trying to fit so much at once, we weren’t able to stay very long in one place. On our own, Erin and I went to pretty much every other site in Rome that we hadn’t covered on the trip. We went to the Vatican, Piazza Navona, the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain. Unfortunately it was two days before Palm Sunday and fairly late in the evening, so St. Peter’s Basilica was closed, but we were able to see the set up for all the people who would be coming to see the Palm Sunday mass there. The next day, we headed to Ostia Antica, a well preserved ancient Roman city. We have a paper due for that class relatively soon and one of the options is to write about one of the buildings we observed there, but I am doing my project based on a Roman document, so Erin and I were able to just walk around and enjoy the ruins. After that, our teacher took us to Ostia Lido, the beach town of Ostia, for lunch.