BK's Travel Blog: A Day in Verona

Our first and only full day in Verona on 6/12 started by visiting the local hospital for another tour. When we arrived at the hospital we got a presentation from one of the pharmacists that worked there and then we got a quick tour of the hospital. During the tour we saw some labs, pharmacy rooms and the outpatient pharmacy. After our short stay at the hospital we got bused to the town center where we met up with Dr. Iannerelli a professor at Bernelli University where we would be our last 3 days of the trip. She talked to us about where exactly we would be staying and what we would be doing while we stayed in the mountains. At first is all sounded very overwhelming and we were not fond of the idea considering it was our last 3 days of the trip and we would be doing all this school work and not truely enjoying the gorgeous area we would be staying. However more on this to come. After our short meeting we had some free time and we went out in Verona for some lunch near the Anfiteatro Arena.

After lunch some of us went into the Arena while others wanted to go shopping instead. The arena was surprisingly well intact and is acutally still used to this day for concerts and plays. After our visit to the Arena we went and stopped at Juliet's House and the famous balcony. The walls around the area were completely covered in graffti from people leaving love notes. So much so that they started putting a white cover over the graffti and people were writing all over the new cover. We took the opportunity to leave our groups mark on the fresh new white cover. While we were there we each took our turn posing with the Juliet statue that stands in the courtyard next to the balcony.

We spent the remainder of our afternoon looking around the streets and market area. We walked along the river at one point and stopped in one church for a quick break from walking. By this time it was time to head back for dinner in the garden of our hotel. After dinner we headed back to the town center to hang out by the small park near the Arena. We sat and drank wine and Alyssa and Nicole decided to join the protest group that was there to prevent a road to be built through the park. We didn't stay out very late this particular night because we had plans to watch the Penguins game.

In order to watch the game that night we had purchased an internet card for 2 hours and planned on getting up at 3:30 am to catch the last period of the game to get a chance to see if the Penguins would win the Stanley Cup. Surprisingly 7 out of 8 students came to Josh and my room to watch the game along with one of the professors. So in total there were 10 people in our room at 3:30 in the morning to watch the Pens. Well to make a long story short the Pens won and we made a ton of noise and got 2 noise complaints, but we didn't care because we were checking out of the hotel the next morning or should I say 2 and a half hours by the time the game got over.