Decided to try to go to the Montessori Schools* so found out the direction to Via Poli where you have to go to get the ticket for admission. Got there but found the secretary was only in from 4-6. The young English girl to whom I gave the address got her card of entrance and went off without saying a word to me.
Then I looked at the shop windows, went to Pension Cargill and asked about rates for next winter, went to Cook’s and got a letter from Margaret and rode home in the no. 14 train. After lunch I asked Miss Wood what to do and she advised going to St. John L.*
I rested till 3 and started about 3:30, reached the church at end of train 16. Went all around the church and into the vault and to see the beautiful cloisters.
Then took the no. 8 car to Piazza Sylvestro [Piazza San Silvestro, A] and walked to Via Poli [B]. Saw the secretary, a pleasant man and am to get a permit for myself and two friends to visit “a poor school”, walked home up Via Corso Victor Emanuel [Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, C]. It was crowded so you had to walk in the street part of the time. Took me ¾ an hour to walk home.
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It rained this afternoon not very hard. Dressed for dinner and went into sitting room and read The Daily Graphic.
*Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952), the first female physician in Italy who was an Italian educator known for developing the Montessori method to teach young children. She introduced the method in Rome in 1907
**Probably St. John Lateran
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