Sunday, May 31, 2015

PACCE

Today we cleaned up Rome. I was so surprised at how dirty the city truly was because I am more concentrated on the buildings and trying not to get hit by a crazy driver that I am not paying attention to all the stickers on the poles and the piles of garbage on the ground. I was mainly pulling stickers off the poles and there was an excessive amount of pointless stickers on poles and posts. I find it sad the Romans do not take pride in their city and want to have it clean. I believe they should use cleaning the city as a form of punishment as they do back in America. It was really cool to interact with different people who had different feelings on what we were doing. I had one lady who spoke very broken English say the town was filthy and she was happy we were doing something about it. On the other hand I had an Italian man not so happy that I was cleaning the posts off so it was interesting to get both sides. I was also photographed a lot and several people starred like they had never seen anyone do any cleaning before. It was an amazing experience!
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  1. UnknownMay 31, 2015 at 3:43 PM

    I agree it was an amazing experience. Even though tags are embedded in their culture it is still cool to see the possibility of change.

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  2. UnknownJune 1, 2015 at 12:38 PM

    You're so right that all the stickers are completely pointless! They were the same company over and over again. Clearly that type of advertising is ineffective and I was happy to clean it up!

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  3. UnknownJune 2, 2015 at 2:18 PM

    The varying reactions that we got from both locals and tourists were very interesting. Mostly everyone was happy that we were cleaning but some people were rude or awkward about it.

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  4. UnknownJune 2, 2015 at 2:53 PM

    I was glad to see many people happy with what we were doing and even heard a few ask how they could get involved and were very excited to help out. It was great to see people want to improve their city, even if it is just a few so far.

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  5. UnknownJune 3, 2015 at 3:32 AM

    While I was removing stickers, I was talking to one of the locals about what the stickers were for. I was very surprised to find out that they were for a moving company that is owned by the Mafia!

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