Today I had my first Art History class, which was titled Cities, Towns, and Villas, and is actually more of an archeological class in which we tour around the city and learn the history of the monuments and the art from ancient Rome. Our first day included walking over to an area called the Circus Maximus, which is a huge grassy area where a large racetrack used to stand. While walking over there we started seeing a large crowd forming around the edge of the Circus. We then learned that the taxi drivers from Rome and surrounding cities, including Naples, were on strike and were protesting the government out in public. As we learned from our professor, striking is an art of the Romans and they always seem to be on strike for one thing or another. This is the way Italians accomplish things here, by force, which seems to be pretty universal for how they act in everyday life as well!
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