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Published: October 29th 2005
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as the title of this entry should tell you, I haven't been up to a whole lot lately. I think I'm getting use to Rome, and so stuff that might have been exciting to me a month ago now just seems common place.
I did go and see the Pope. that's worth writing about. laura has this priest friend who scored us tickets to a papal mass. and this wasn't just any papal mass, oh no. it was a canonization mass, which means i saw five dead guys get turned into saints. pretty exciting. one of the saints was from chile, so pretty much half the population of chile was hanging out with us there at st. peter's square. and they were very pumped up about all this pope business. they made up cheers and yelled them at the top of their lungs and sang songs. they were a fun bunch of people. the mass was mainly in latin and italian or some other foreign language, so i don't really know what was going on most of the time. i stood up when everybody stood up, i sat down when everybody else sat down, and i listened to the pope.
i've decided i like this pope. he seems like a nice guy.
we went and looked at relics one day. i saw an identical replecation of the shroud of turin. i think all that is very fake. the picture of "Jesus" is way too detailed for it to be genuine, in my opinion. i saw the holy stairs, which are historically suppose to be some stairs that Jesus walked on. I saw some pieces of wood that are suppose to be from the holy cross, and i saw some nails that were suppose to have been driven into Jesus' hands. I do not know how real these things are, but I don't think it matters to much. Such things did exist, and whether they are preserved in museums these days is irrelevant.
laura turned 20, and me and keri threw her a party. it was wonderful. we went to our favorite chinese restaurant and bought a crap load of fun. chinese food here is really good and way way way way way way cheaper than italian food. you can get a really good, big meal (appetizer, soup, main course, extra rice, and drink) for ten euros or less.
i tell you what, thats quite a deal. and we bought sparkling wine and a delicious chocolate rum cake, which we did not share with anyone outside of our group and thus we each had a whole lot of cake. oh, and we went to this nice bar place that had a free buffet during happy hour. i was waaaaaaay more interested in the free food than in my drink, and i wouldn't have even bothered to get a drink if there had been another way to get stuff from the buffet.
lots of people are gone on trips this weekend, but dr. quinn threw a movie night party for the few of us still in town. it was a good time. he put out lots of ham and salami and cheese and wine and chocolate, and i brought some grapes and deviled eggs, and all this turned out to be quite a scrumptious spread. we watched the unusual suspects, which i had enver seen before and which i now love, and we watched red dragon.
so as you can see, nothing too exciting has been going on lately. this monday i may take a day excursion to
orvieto, a little town in tuscany that makes some good wine. otherwise, you guys will have to wait awhile before anything spectacular happens, but next month you will get to hear about venice, germany, and austria, and the month after that you'll hear about the netherlands. so just hold your horses guys. i'll become more amusing some day.
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Kim
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I MISS SARAH LABAUVE
The Italian people have kept you much too long. My life is dull and humorless without you. But, I guess I can last a couple more months, only on account of you having so many more cool things to do. Tuscany, Venice, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands...that's going to be awesome. Well, I'm headed out to go to a UBC service project. Geez, you think I would have learned by now. At least this time the word mystery is in no way involved. I love you!