The last two weeks have been filled with travel. There was the week-long school-sponsored bus tour of the Peloponnese, the highlights of which included Olympia (ran the track), Messene (best archaeological site I've ever seen), several Mycenaean palaces (a tablet was found in one which read: we have sent troops to the north because they are coming. the palace was destroyed soon after that was written), Epidauros (a sanctuary to Asklepius which had a fully preserved Greek theater), and Delphi (holy water of Apollo is so refreshing). Sparta sucked like a lone Persian warrior facing a Phalanx of red-cloaked semi-nude warriors.
After a day of rest and laundry in Athens, I went off to Rome, saw the Pope speak (his face ominously cloaked in shadow, but otherwise soft-spoken and kind of friendly seeming), hung out in the Vatican with Decimus and a friend from the program, spent lots and lots of time with Claudia (pulcherrima), chilled in the Colosseum, went to the Forum (nothing funny happened on the way) and generally had a Roman holiday sans Audrey Hepburn. Now I'm back, resting, recovering, and catching up on correspondence (and homework). Proper posts are in the work, along with pictures, but that will all come later!
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