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By William Marte (Queensborough Community College)

Today was probably the best day in my opinion so far. We went to visit the Coliseum today, which was one of the places I was looking forward to seeing. I felt very fortunate when I went inside because I thought to myself, “wow, how many people would so much to be in my shoes right now?” I also thought to myself the many people that have a love for history and never get to see a place like this except for television and pictures. It made me feel very lucky to be where I was at that moment. While at the Coliseum I learned some pretty interesting things like women fought at the Coliseum (against midgets). Also interesting to me was that men as young as 16 would put their life on the line to fight in matches at the Coliseum. Today, we also went to the Palatino, a place near the Coliseum, where we got to see where some of the Roman Emperors lived. I was really amazed by the architecture and how many of these sights are still up thousands of years later. It made me realize how smart people were years ago that they can build sights like these. It’s no wonder that
Rome had so much power 2000 years ago. Overall today was good and I am looking forward to continuing on with the trip and getting back onto the baseball field.