Week 3 by Kathleen Garza

This week we went Merida and I was very excited to see the structures that were on this trip. The first place that we stopped to see was the Acueducto de los Milagros. I loved the view and it was built to be able to supply water for the Romans. The next thing that I loved was the Puente Romano. It is said to be the second longest bridge and it is still very well conserved till this day. This experience has been great and the most incredible one was visiting the Roman Theatre. I remember back in high school learning about the Roman theatre and wanting to go to Merida, Spain to go to visit it in real life. When learning about it 5 years ago I was very interested in the culture and the story of how the Romans would perform their tragedies and comedies there by acting.  The way that they seat the people in ima cavea sections by social class, the highest class being the closest to the stage. The middle cavea being called media cavea, and the low class usually with women and their children is called the summa cavea.  Back then in the year that this roman theatre was built the romans did not usually like to go to the theatre but they ended up going and liking it for entertainment. For the actors it could only be men. There would not be any women actors. So the men had to wear masks to represent the women role in the tragedy or comedy. This was a great experience and I fell in love with the city. There is so much to see that has so much history in its structures. It was incredible to be able to see all of it.