some more pictures! friends!

Me and Cate! She's becoming a really great friend!

Kaitlin and Amy - from UCSB

Me, Amanda, Ashley (San Francisco) and Anna (Chicago)

A picture from Pompeii that's not of a dog!

Not much news - I wrote a mythology paper today. Other than that it's been pretty slow around Roma! I'm going to make some olive salad tomorrow (with the lovely directions from dear Papa Dick - thank you!!!) so I'll take pictures. Because it's always funny when I'm trying to make food that doesn't go in a microwave.

Amanda is now 21 and all grown up. We all went out to celebrate on Saturday - very fun! On her actual birthday, the 18th, we watched T.V. all day and then got chinese food. So basically what we do at home :) It was nice to slow things down a bit. Doesn't happen often anymore!

Tomorrow I'm going to the Italian parliament with my Italian Society class, I believe we're going to sit in on a gay rights debate. Too bad I don't speak Italian well enough to be able to understand what they're talking about, because that sounds interesting.

Mom you'll like this one - I cleaned my room today. Swept the floors and everything. I think working at the zoo made me really aware of dirty floors and how much I dislike them (no, parents, my room doesn't count).

For the daily cute dog update, I saw a weenie dog today in a flower market in Campo de Fiori who was taking a little nap on its back amongst the flowers.

adorable.