My Final Blog

So here it is. My summer in Rome has come and gone. I vividly remember sitting in Vermont on March 10th with my dad and brother (we were on a ski trip) and commenting that I had exactly two months until I left for Rome. Well, it came and it went again. It is Wednesday afternoon here in Rome (Wednesday morning for those of you back home) and we have just finished class for the summer. Tomorrow I will finish packing, say my goodbyes to friends that I made and then Friday morning I board the plane at 9:45am for the 11 hour flight to Chicago. Once there I have a layover for three hours and then it's back to Pittsburgh where my brother and mother will be waiting for me. The point of this post is to remind you all again what my purpose was this summer. I specifically looked at three areas this summer and those three areas are what comprised a majority of my blog entries here. I looked at photography in Rome by showing some of my own shots, looking at other peoples shots and also looking at equipment. I also spent a lot of time on Viale di Trastevere, which is the main road in the town we live in. I checked out many different coffee shops and restaurants and reported my findings back to you all. Lastly, I spent a lot of time at the various water fountains in Rome. Whether they be drinking fountains or monumental style fountains, they were all enjoyable. This summer was full of so much excitement that I am not sure what to expect when I arrive in Pittsburgh at 6:45pm on Friday. Hopefully things will be the same as when I left. I am looking forward to sharing stories with my family and friends and we all promised that we would keep in contact with one another as much as humanly possible during the summer and the up coming fall semester. I feel like I may have made some life lone friends here, and I hope that I am right. For now I would just like to say thank you. Thanks for reading this and for commenting on it. I made a personal promise to myself that I would be back to Europe within the next five years. I hope I can keep this promise to myself. I'll see you all soon. Ciao.