Scavenger Hunt

I really feel like this whole semester is a Scavenger Hunt for everyone. Each one of us is looking for something specific in this Rome Program. There's people that are keeping their eyes open for the best bars, the best and/or cheapest alcohol, others looking for the quietest places to read all the books and to study, or searching around the city just to find the best way to go back to campus. There are some looking to find an answer to spiritual restlessness, some searching for their vocation, UDers out to find every single Saint's relics and famous churches... And of course we're all looking for the best places and ways to travel and get to everything we want.

There is just so much to do, and I keep thinking of how important it is to fear mediocrity and to battle it with passionate effort to make the best of each experience.

Going on with my little clever play on words :P, we did a Scavenger Hunt through Rome today. We all got into groups of 10, and were sent into the city using public transportation with a list of 80 + objects. Although the heat is still trying to get to us, it was really fun to run around the city with a sign saying "Noi Siamo Qui" (We Are Here) and to try to find everything we needed to.

Here are some pictures with captions of my team's findings:

Picture of the Swiss Guards

A Vatican Mailbox

Old Bridge Gelatteria (I don't know why my blog wont let me put this picture vertically)

A picture of a couple Kissing

A pidgeon

A Picture of a Fight (perhaps it is a little staged)

A boat on the Tiber River

The Obelisk in Piazza del Popolo

A nun.

Fountain in Piazza Navona

We were able to get 27 of the things on the list :D Which means we each get 5 euros for the CapBar on campus :).

ps) we didn't have the proper attire to go into a church so they gave us large white pieces of cloth. Maggie was told she needed two, and ended up looking like a walking sleeping bag inside the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.