This feels so surreal! I'm sat in the 3rd row of the auditorium waiting for the pope. The atmosphere is almost 'rock concert' like. 4 of our students have been chosen to greet him, Aris, Todi, Tania and Rebecca. I'm feeling mixed emotions, almost tears, but also a feeling of 'what am I doing here'. Not that I wouldn't have come, you really don't get this chance every day.
I wait with trepidation for his arrival at 10.30!
Different groups are arriving and entering playing as a marching band, others suddenly stand up and start playing. And a group of nuns were dancing and clapping
Now they are reading out the names of all the groups present here.
Now we are off on a sight seeing bus tour, many basilicas, starting with St Peters....
Just got into bed at 22.50, after leaving the guest house at 8.30 this morning! We have visited, 4 Basilicas, including St Peter's, St John Lateran, and St Mary Major. We will be doing the 4th main one on Friday, that's St Paul's outside the wall.
Then we stopped to look at the Colosseum and a 2000 year old roman road, after that we went to St Bartholomew's on Tiber Island, a martyrs church, and we finished with catholic vespers in Santa Maria in Trastevere after which we got fed at 9.00 O'clock.
It was a good day and I would never have done all of the sights without a guide, but it was definitely one church too many, or maybe one would have been enough! It was a bit of a case of seen one, seen them all!!!
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