GL Week last

     Uhm well its the last week and the only thing I'm glad thats over is the blogging, reading, and paper writing. This place is aw inspiring in every way and I am not happy that our time is coming to an end. This week talking about Mr. Ripley was interesting. He was a very interesting character dynamic in every way. I liked how he finally accepted himself at the end of the book. He didn't like the change back from Dicky to Tom but the amount of character growth he showed by the end of the book was very interesting. It apply's slightly to us in Italy. At first we were not happy with how different the city made us feel and now after 2 months we are much happier.
      Then managing to see the pope twice was very cool. The papal audience was being so close to him was like being close to a celebrity. I asked my cousin who was more important in italy the Pope, Republic President, or the Prime minister he was fast to voice his opinion and say the pope. Anyways it was funny that his German accent was so thick that we could not understand his English. I remember thinking that he was still speaking in Italian when he was supposed to be speaking English. Anyways it was inspiring to see such an important figure who could speak 7 different languages. Then when the pope was changing the crown on Mary by the Spanish Steps riding in the Pope Mobile was so fun to watch.
     On to the American Cemetery which was one of the highlights of the trip for me. 23 sets of brothers lost at war where laid to rest in this cemetery. For me the monument to these brothers was very inspiring. Arm in arm those men in the statue stand in honor of there country. While walking I realized that it is even possible that there could be three or more people from the same family resting there. It made me realize how lucky I am to be so close to my brothers. Even though we are living in different parts of the United States we take time to send funny emails to each other and other none sense. I could not imagine loosing a brother let alone two. I don't know what I would do.
     Speaking on family this weekend was very interesting for me and my family. We made family trees and ate... and ate... and ate some more... and then ate again... then drank some wine. By the end of the day you could have swore that we had all know each other for years. Giulio and I had so much in common from the TV shows we watch to sport interests. The craziest part was how much a like he was to my whole entire family. We all are the exact same people leading different lives in different worlds. Even my cousin Rosemaria was just like us, she is a pilot. We all love flying and my brother Joe is a aerospace engineer. The whole weekend was amazing partly because the fact that even though we were complete strangers we had so much fun together. I really cant explain it because there are no words to use.