Wannabe-Renaissance Girl

I just watched Angels and Demons (with Tom Hanks) and it made me think about all the beautiful artwork and history in Italy and all the amazing minds who lived in the Renaissance. My History teacher this year is a total Renaissance geek and it was an awesome year going to class everyday and hearing him tell us these stories about the mind-blowing things that happened and came into existence during that time. Well, that year ended in June and so did those once-a-day Renaissance lectures. Watching this movie made me so jealous of him, he is a young guy with lots more to learn but he already knows so much. The places and things he has seen... I know I still have plenty of time to go to Rome and see these marvelous pieces of art that are hidden all over Europe, but I can't help but be jealous of him. He has an amazing memory so he can remember all of these things and spout them back out to us, his students, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to do the same. I want to learn and become someone, like him, who can use history to change the present. I want to influence the now so I can become part of the past who people in future generations will learn about in their own classes and leanr from. I want to be able to appreciate the past with enough knowledge to understand the past! Right now I just wish I could grab him and hop on a plane to Italy so I could learn all of these things!!! I hate having to wait around for school to start again in the Fall, knowing that I won't be learning about the Renaissance anymore. I wish I could have more of a choice in what I learn year-to-year in school. I guess that is what college is for, and my oh my am I excited!!!