Final week! Unfor­tu­nately this post will not be very excit­ing as most of what hap­pened was school-related.

Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 21^st, 2009

So begins the last day of classes. In the morn­ing we vis­ited the “Supreme Court” for Italy. Supreme court is in quotes because we actu­ally vis­ited the last appel­late court, which does *not* con­sider con­sti­tu­tional mat­ters, only facts of law. We went on a tour of the build­ing as well as vis­ited a court­room, the legal library, and lis­tened to a brief overview of the sys­tem by a few dif­fer­ent peo­ple.  In the after­noon we had our usual 2 hour ses­sion with Pro­fes­sor Lovell, then my group met for about an hour to work on our presentation.

Later that night Rachel and I decided to try and find some bur­ri­tos, but after wan­der­ing around all throught the city and cross­ing the river, we decided to just give up and have some pizza instead. We sat on one of the bridges over­look­ing the Tiber and munched on dinner.

Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22^nd, 2009

Class at 9:00am and then our group met at 1:00pm to final­ize our pre­sen­ta­tion. After work­ing for three point­less hours 4:00pm rolled around and we went down to the con­fer­ence room to lis­ten to two other groups before giv­ing ours. I talked about the Guar­ante and think it went pretty well over­all. Later that night we fin­shed off her Vodka (not a good idea) and spent most of the time annoy­ing every­one else around.

Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 23^rd, 2009

Final day of class! The after­noon was mainly spent clean­ing our apart­ment and start­ing to pack up, and at 6:00 the final two pre­sen­ta­tion groups pre­sented before we had a recep­tion in Prof. McCann’s apart­ment. It was our last get together a a group, and the food as well as the com­pany was excel­lent, as always. Later we went out on the Campo!

Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 24^th, 2009

For the last day of the pro­gram, Rachel and I went to see the inside of the Col­i­seum and Roman Forum. I’m not sure how I felt about both of these, as they were truth­fully a lit­tle under­whelm­ing. After­wards, we went shop­ping for var­i­ous things, and some of my finds were an awe­some A.S. Roma jer­sey (lime green) and a scarf.  I fin­ished pack­ing and we pol­ished away the last of the food left before we watched the end­ing of The Dark Knight and an episode of Flight of the Con­chords before going to sleep fairly late.

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 25^th, 2009

I woke up at 4:30am and said sadly said good­bye to Rachel before meet­ing Corddaryl and Dane out­side our apart­ment at 5:15 to go to the air­port. We took the 64 bus to Stazione Ter­mini and then the Leonardo Express to FCO. Once there, we had to down town a poorly marked path­way to the “Delta” check in, which was really a bus which took us to what seemed to be a ware­house. We went through some ini­tial secu­rity check before actu­ally going to another room with the check-in counter. After the counter we then went through secu­rity (a very pleas­ant expe­ri­ence… didn’t have to take off our shoes!), before find­ing another bus which took us back… to the main terminal.

My flight left at 10:40, and enjoyed the win­dow seat, as usual, to Atlanta. I watched the Dead­liest Catch, the new Star Trek movie, and Fam­ily Guy on the flight, and they decided to serve us “Pizza.”  Since our flight arrived half an hour early, we got to sit around in the plane until a ter­mi­nal opened up for us to dock at. Pass­port con­trol and cus­toms were fun as usual, and after breez­ing through these, I promptly went to eat some Amer­i­can food. There was only one Mex­i­can place in the air­port, and it was way out of the beaten path. So I set­tled for a local cheese­burger and sea­soned fries before board­ing the final flight home. Got back at 9:00pm, and basi­cally slept until 9:00am on Saturday.

And that’s a wrap.