Rome: The Eternal City.
On Sunday morning I arrived at the airport outside of Rome. This just wasn't my first time traveling on a plane, but it was also my first time in another country and my first time in Europe. After eleven hours in the airports between JFK International in New York City, Dublin Airport in Ireland, and Fiumicino in Rome I could not stop myself from exploring the city despite my exhaustion.
For the next seven weeks I will be exploring and experiencing life in Rome, the city that has drastically altered history across several continents for thousands of years. There will be two separate themes to my blog: a theme and a location. Throughout my travels in Rome I will be examining the culture and rhetoric of life here through the city streets and the people who walk them, which is my theme for the term. Because Rome is an epicenter of culture and a huge tourist attraction it will be easy to identify rhetoric through the layout of the streets and what goes on in different areas of the city, as well as through the dozens of types of people who walk these streets every day. Specifically I will focus on Via Del Corso, as it is a central and historical location in Rome. It will be an adventure living for the moment and as Roman poet Horace's infamous words say I must carpe diem.
On Sunday morning I arrived at the airport outside of Rome. This just wasn't my first time traveling on a plane, but it was also my first time in another country and my first time in Europe. After eleven hours in the airports between JFK International in New York City, Dublin Airport in Ireland, and Fiumicino in Rome I could not stop myself from exploring the city despite my exhaustion.
For the next seven weeks I will be exploring and experiencing life in Rome, the city that has drastically altered history across several continents for thousands of years. There will be two separate themes to my blog: a theme and a location. Throughout my travels in Rome I will be examining the culture and rhetoric of life here through the city streets and the people who walk them, which is my theme for the term. Because Rome is an epicenter of culture and a huge tourist attraction it will be easy to identify rhetoric through the layout of the streets and what goes on in different areas of the city, as well as through the dozens of types of people who walk these streets every day. Specifically I will focus on Via Del Corso, as it is a central and historical location in Rome. It will be an adventure living for the moment and as Roman poet Horace's infamous words say I must carpe diem.
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