The first lectures of the summer began today, and they went rather well. We discussed The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, after that we had a 3 hour break which will be ending soon. A few of us walked up to The Pantheon, The Trevi Fountain and the surrounding area to grab some lunch and just take another look at a part of the city we had not been to yet. The Pantheon is an amazing structure. The outsides of some of the buildings here are nothing noteworthy, until you step inside. The outside of The Pantheon, minus the pillars, is nothing but gray stone. Massive, nonetheless. Once inside it seems to come alive with hundreds of people all looking up at the amazing ceiling with its opening to the sky. Trevi fountain is also very interesting, but we'll talk more about that later this summer. For the next few hours we will be viewing Italian neo-realist films and then heading back to our apartment where we'll be hanging out, doing some work, and possibly dinner with the girls. Ciao.
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