Pompei

So this weekend was my first field trip to the southern parts of Italy! On saturday morning I woke up at the crack of dawn (actually it was still dark out) at 5 am to walk to the bus which we left on at 5:30. I am still experiencing some jet lag so since I was so excited to leave for the weekend I didn't fall asleep until 3 am. Needless to say I was exhausted but I got some sleep on the 5 hour bus ride until we reached Pompei.

The sight of Mt. Vesuvius was incredible, it's so big and I remember learning about it in a few of my geography classes. We started off on a tour by one of my professors in the ruins that was hit by the volcano eruption years and years ago. It was very very hot but it was such a beautiful day and all the ruins were so interesting to look at. I saw so many things I've seen in pictures in lectures before and heard about, it was really cool to put two and two together and experience it in person.

We got pretty silly after an hour and a half (of what was a 3 hour tour) and were dancing around in the ruins which was a lot of fun. At one point the large group of us were in a tomb and there was another tour of elderly french people behind us who were extremely disrespectful to my professor and were making fun of us americans, saying "you americans don't even know what country you're in". We just laughed and kept saying "where can we get some american fries and how far were we from new york?". Even our professor said he "hated the french". It was very amusing. There were also a ton of stray dogs running around and at one point I guess one of the dogs were racist because we saw it barking and scaring an african american family which was the same dog we'd been playing with earlier. It was bad.

But nonetheless by the end I got an amazing freshly squeezed orange juice slushie and headed off for Sorrento.