Obviously, i’m not going to be the next Michelangelo or Botticelli, but for what I lack in sketching I make up for with words. In this post I am going to just be talking about “things I saw”, specifically the Colosseum and the house where John Keats died.

 This picture is of one of the entrances or gates into the Colosseum. Our guide told us that roughly 55,000 people came through the gates in just 10 minutes time! Each gate has their own roman numeral above the entrance. I thought this was really cool because even back then there was some sort of order system to break up some of the chaos.

 So not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think this is one of the best photographs I’ve ever taken! YAY! Next to the Spanish Steps in Rome is the place where the poet John Keats died. On the house there is a plague that reads, “the young english poet John Keats died in this house on the 24th of February aged 25”. Behind my drawing is the actual house and the gray box is the plague. It was so surreal to be sitting next to his house, as well as slightly fangirling over the fact that I was sitting on the same steps Audrey Hepburn did in Roman Holiday. I  could have sat there for hours.