30 Day Challenge - Day 20

30 Day Challenge - Day 20

A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.

Benvenuto in Italia!

I already wrote about New Zealand, so Italy is next on the list of places to travel.

I actually studied Latin for four years of high school. I can't remember why in the world i thought LATIN would be a good choice, because I retained very, very little.

"Agricola est in villa." 

The farmer is in the farmhouse. 

Who can recite obsolete phrases in dead languages? This girl.

But what I actually DO remember is studying the roman empire. We translated roman mythology and learned things like if you were a gladiator that got a thumbs-up in the Coliseum... the crowd wanted you dead. (Doh.) So actually seeing the ancient architecture and ruins would be pretty amazing.

I also spent a LOT of time in college nerding-out in art history classes. Caravaggio, Mantegna, Botticelli... all four ninja turtles- Leonardo Di Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael... all famous Italian painters. It'd be nice to just hang out in a place with so much history and culture that stemmed from the arts.

My mom has said that she'd like to take my sister and I to Rome someday. I think that would be extra special considering how integral Italy was to our family's history. My grandmother and my grandfather actually met in Italy and were married there during WWII. My ninety-four year old grandmother will still tell amazingly vivid stories about her time there serving as a red cross nurse. 

So those are my, hopefully, out-of-the-norm reasons for wanting to go visit Italy.

(What? Wine? Ok. That too.)