Villa Borghese

School is getting better and better. I'm understanding more and more and I'm more conversant. I am starting to be able to communicate the basics, though I'm not great at using the verbs correctly. I'm going to my first private tutoring session this afternoon. I think I'm going to start by asking her to help me with the basics. When do you use essere vs. avere with the past participle. When do you use qual or quale or quello or quanto or quando or qui or qua, etc. etc. (so many q's!)

Here...Let me tell you about my weekend. Friday night was tame. In fact, I can barely even remember what we did on Friday! Saturday, Ryan and I went to the Villa Borghese. Afterwards we met up with the "gang" and went out drinking and dancing. Well, the dancing came as a result of the drinking in my case! It was fun. Many of the Italians are very friendly and delight in meeting up with foreigners and teaching them more about their language. Sometimes the words they teach you are bad, so be careful when repeating what they teach you!

Here are my pics from my day at the Borghese:

A cool temple in the middle of a little lake/pond.


The goddess in the temple


A shot from the side.


A cool fountain of a fawn and a maiden holding a little fawn up in the air. The water is spouting out of the rabbit's mouths.


A nice fountain in front of the Museum of Modern Art


And a nice surprise at the bottom!


Speaking of turtles. We went back to the pond and found LOTS of them playing around. I've never seen turtles so active!




















Well, these guys weren't in the pond, they were in the Zoo at the North end of the park. The zoo was pretty depressing. The animals didn't have great environments and were pretty sluggish. The bears seemed to be the only ones having any fun!