OMG how AMAZING is this city? Rome to me was the cherry on top of the cake of my Erasmus. I loved it so much I even got sad I didn't chose it in the 1st place to do my Erasmus there.
Coming from Lugano to Rome was the strangest funniest thing ever! As everything is so quiet and calm in Lugano, as soon as we arrived in the city of Rome we got the sense of crazy all around (And I Loved It!!). When you're in Rome you know. There's no way avoiding the rhythm of the city and you have to move with it or basically someone will run you over!
I had never seen anything like this, but Italians are actually INSANE! They cross the streets wherever they want, whenever they want and the cars and scooters drive in a way I couldn't quite understand (all I could think was I could never drive there cause I would hit another car in 5 seconds or even hurt someone).
Coming from Lugano to Rome was the strangest funniest thing ever! As everything is so quiet and calm in Lugano, as soon as we arrived in the city of Rome we got the sense of crazy all around (And I Loved It!!). When you're in Rome you know. There's no way avoiding the rhythm of the city and you have to move with it or basically someone will run you over!
I had never seen anything like this, but Italians are actually INSANE! They cross the streets wherever they want, whenever they want and the cars and scooters drive in a way I couldn't quite understand (all I could think was I could never drive there cause I would hit another car in 5 seconds or even hurt someone).
I ate pizza (AMAZING PIZZA) but i'll confess I didn't eat any Gelato (because I really don't like Ice cream...I apologize for that). I walked the same streets over and over again - within the time I had which wasn't much -, I took a lot of pictures, I got my map in my hands most of the time, I moved in the city by metro, bus and tram, I got a fine for not having bought the bus ticket, I ate amazing carbonara (my favorite food so far), I ate the best Greek food EVER (a giant cooked patatoe with cheese, bacon and Gorgonzola), I stayed in an area that was not that nice at night (far away from the center) and sometimes I got scared, I've learned more Italian in 6 days in Rome than in 3 months in Lugano (and the reason this happened was because here people are alive! They go on the streets talking to each other, making funny gestures, yelling if they want to, and you learn a lot by hearing, and since in Lugano nothing like that happened because they are all so civilized and calm and lovers of their personal space, I didn't really hear that much Italian - except in classes of course). I learned how to curse in Italian (the word "cazzo" came home with me), I walked a lot to go see the pyramid and it was being repaired (so I didn't see anything), went to the Colosseum and half of it was being repaired as the Arch of Constantine. Apparently every important monument in Rome was being repaired while I was there, but I didn't care because I was having fun and loving everything. I went to Fontana di Trevi about 5 times (this was the place I came back more often, I don't know why. It was always field with tourists, like hundreds of them all the time, but I loved that place, so whenever we wanted to rest, wait for someone, or didn't know where to go, Fontana di Trevi was the place). I got in EVERY single church or basilica I could find because they were free. I went EVERYWHERE and walked pretty much the entire map of the city. I was so sad when I had to leave!
I got home with a twisted ankle (yes this is another thing about my travels: I always come home with something broken, twisted or hurt), bought a lot of gifts for my parents (and myself) - way too many, but this is another story! - and for the longest time I just wanted to say how much I loved Rome.
Whenever people talked to me, after arriving in Portugal, and asked me how my Erasmus went, I didn't wanna talk about it, I had nothing to tell about Switzerland at that time, all I could say was that it was nice but Rome was awesome!
I got home with a twisted ankle (yes this is another thing about my travels: I always come home with something broken, twisted or hurt), bought a lot of gifts for my parents (and myself) - way too many, but this is another story! - and for the longest time I just wanted to say how much I loved Rome.
Whenever people talked to me, after arriving in Portugal, and asked me how my Erasmus went, I didn't wanna talk about it, I had nothing to tell about Switzerland at that time, all I could say was that it was nice but Rome was awesome!