arrivederci america: Timeless

Here is my blog post I did for the Auburn website about our journeys last week if you're interested!

We went to Ostia Antica, Etruscean Tombs, Montecassino Abbey and Pompeii. The weather was not so good for Ostia Antica or the tombs but we toughed it out. It was suppose to rain the day we went the Abbey and Pompeii but the Lord gave us some sunshine for a lot of the day. It so interesting to go to these historic places and see into the minds of the people back then. As you will read on my Auburn blog, it really opened my eyes that just because it was another period of time doesn't mean they were any less smart than we are today.

I thought we were going to die on the way to the Montecassino Abbey. It was on top of the biggest mountain I have ever seen and Marco (what I've named the bus driver) was just going a little too fast for my liking. So I was in the very back praying the whole way up there! It was like it the tiniest gust of wind blew, the bus could have been knocked off the side of the mountain. But we made it safely, thank you Jesus! When we got there I was expecting to see Monks just everywhere. That was definitely not the case. Those little guys were no where to be found! So I kept asking the tour guide their whereabouts and all she would say was that they were in a specific area. So we got to the Abbey (the church) and Tommy, our faculty member who is here with us, said Meaghan there's a monk! So I turned to look as fast as I could and the little man was like a flash of lightning. He was just this blurred image that darted across the church. I was very disappointed. But don't get disheartened because I saw one in the gift shop that sold chocolate the monks "supposedly" make - even though it has a picture of the coliseum on it. My trip was then complete and the chocolate was wonderful!

Pompeii was beautiful and so much bigger than I had expected! They had so many thermal baths which is like our sauna today. They loved those things! It was so neat to be in these places that are so old and historical! Here are some extra pictures...

Jess and I at Montecassino...the wind was a little crazy!