थे अर्तिस्तिक मिन्ड्स ऑफ़ रोमा!

Ok if your wondering why the title is in Hindi I'll let you know I have no idea why. My computer just got a funny idea to write in Hindi from now on! Good luck trying to find out what this post will be about:)
The artistic minds of Roma! There! I gave it away!
Well as many of you know, I recently returned from Rome with my Italian family! It was very nice, raining and inspiring! The city part reminded me a lot of all the other big cities I've been too, New York, London, Paris, big, with a lot diversity of people (which I've missed a ton!) and pretty dirty haha. I'll tell you my favorite part right away, I ATE CHINESE FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the most exciting event since I've been here! You may think I'm insane for missing Chinese food while I'm in Italia! The country with the best food! But all I can say is that, coming from Seattle where there is every food you can think of, and I eat most of them, its been difficult for me to have a strict diet of only Italian food for the last 2 months and for the nest 8! So yea, it was really good Chinese food too:) Then my host mom was super sweet and saw how much I liked it and went out and bought me spring roles and Indian and Chinese rice making things, which were all really yummy!
Okay now here comes my rant of how beautiful the art was!
Oh my god! There is no way I could capture the feeling or the passion I saw in the bodies and faces of the statues, or the realty of the painted faces, the power in the horses muscles, and the brilliance of the architecture.. I was mesmerized every moment I walked through the streets, for there was history everywhere! Like the colleseo, it was just so grand and graceful, but at the same time rugged and strong, I loved picturing all the people who had been here to appreciate it, when it was first built for gladiators and the millions of tourists and movie makers, etc. who had come to see one of the most famous buildings in the world. And to think that most of this magic was all in dedication to God, all through history men, women, and children have done miraculous things for this man they have never seen, and I was able to see some of the results of this dedication! I might not completely agree with the motivation but all I know is that what I saw in Rome makes this world an even more beautiful place and I hope everyone could at least appreciate the mastery and history a fraction of how I feel about it!
This trip just made me even more interested in art history then I already was (close to obsessed).
Then there were the musicians, who actually made me think I was in Paris a little bit with their accordion music. At one piazza there was a jazz band that I was taking photos of and the man tipped his hat to me for the picture, which absolutely made my hour! Haha!

Well ciao for now!
Much love and thanks,
Kali!