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Friday, May 8, 2009
Hi everyone. I'm in Rome, Italy where there is a lot of really cool "old stuff." In Rome, there is the Colosseum, which is where they used to have gladiators fights in ancient times. I learned that sometimes the gladiators would fight to the death. The ancient Romans liked to see blood and killing, but that was about two thousand years ago. They are really nice now and the Colosseum was almost completely destroyed because of an earthquake.


Friday, May 8, 2009
Hello everybody. For now, we start off in Rome, which is the capital of Italy. On our first day there, we had some great Italian food for lunch and went to the capital of the Catholic Church, the Vatican.
The Vatican is technically its own country because of how powerful the church is and that it follows its own set of laws and even has its own police force. We went on a tour of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. Once inside the Vatican we went to the art museum, where they had huge statues, paintings and accurate aerial maps of Italy from before airplanes were even invented.
The Vatican is technically its own country because of how powerful the church is and that it follows its own set of laws and even has its own police force. We went on a tour of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. Once inside the Vatican we went to the art museum, where they had huge statues, paintings and accurate aerial maps of Italy from before airplanes were even invented.

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