Phase Two...or is it Phase Three? I don't know, I don't do phases.

I have approximately one day, 11 hours, and 27 minutes before my departure Sunday morning. I'm pretty excited to go, but it's going to be tough leaving the dog. Just about everything I need, I have, and I'll probably start packing things up and crossing them off the list tomorrow night.

(Duncan)












De Rebus Quos Facio (Concerning the things which I am doing):
The Rome program in which I am participating is more like a big field trip than a traditional "study abroad." The University of Washington owns a building in Rome, the Palazzo Pio (http://depts.washington.edu/roma/about/hist.html) where it hosts various programs. The Architecture, English, Business, and Art departments (among others) will all have students studying simultaneously at the Pio along with the Classics Department. I will have a pretty full schedule while in Rome, between a Roman topography class (M/W/F, with a field trip outside Rome every Friday), a class studying the Roman Triumph (T/Th; the Triumph was essentially a large celebration held in honor of a conquest or some such endeavor...we think), and a Latin tutorial (we will be reading and examining Ovid's "Ars Amatoria," which means "The Art of Love," and is essentially a guide to picking up girls in ancient Rome...and don't worry, thanks to the equal opportunity movement prevalent in the late Augustinian period, Ovid was considerate enough to write a sequel for girls).

This was mostly just a trial run, and I think the site works fine and I understand how to do everything (picture uploading took me a while). This should be fun.

Vale, amici. (Good-bye [lit., "be strong"] my friends)