With the internship phase of my program nearing its end, I've fully settled into the full-time working life here in Berlin and resigned myself to only the occasional trip outside the country. Unfortunately, that means I have "only" been to Poznan, Warsaw, Krakow, Amsterdam, Budapest, and Münster ever since I returned from Rome and started my internship in early March.
No matter, I've been keeping myself busy, in part by resuming my highly promising handball career! After my first handball course at my university was agonizingly cut short due to the closure of the university gym, I had to make do without the physical, funky basketball-soccer mashup of a sport in my life. Until recently, that is - in Germany, a new university semester began late last month, and so a new weekly handball course at a different gym started up along with it! I came back in style, scoring several goals my first night back out on the court. I can't wait to bring my talents up to the big leagues.
And now, time to escape from the Alltag (daily routine) and time-travel back to late Febraury, when I was still in the land of my forefathers: Rome, Italy. My American friend Leah and I were wrapping up our brief blitz through Rome with a day at the Vatican, the world's smallest country, followed by a short trip to the Jewish district.
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| But first, some pictures I forgot to include in my post about our second day in Rome. This is another look at the Temple of Saturn, the oldest sacred place in rome (it was dedicated in 497 BC but later rebuilt) |
