Last Day of Italia

After 15 straight days of roaming Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples, we finally come to an end in Buja. We started the day by visiting an Italian school, however, this school is not the ordinary school you'd think of. Forget the history and english classes, this school is a trade school, a school that provides vocational education. Here, students are taught the skills needed to perform the occupations and careers they desire. Students, aging from 10 to 17, here are taught things from rewiring electrical circuits to assembling cars and motorbikes. It was truly a unique experience to visit a school without the usual the classes, but with factory-like rooms full of machinery.

Next, we followed Franco who was leading us towards a castle. We got to the area of the castle, but could not find any parking spaces, and the ones we did find could not fit the two bulky, white vans we had. After about twenty minutes of stressful strugglin', we decided to cancel the trip to the castle and go straight to the Carrefour (supermarket).

John, Franco, Zayd, Madeline, Mackenzie, and Emily arrived twenty minutes earlier than the vans did. During this time, some of us used the desperately needed wireless internet and played on the flat-surfaced escalators :3. Once everybody arrived we were all instructed to pick out out foods for lunch and breakfast for tomorrow. While most people got wimpy little sandwiches, Zayd and I ordered a humongous 14inch 8 euro margherita pizza, along with two sprites. And for breakfast, Baked Ritz Crackers. While waiting for the others checking out, I, with the assistance of Zayd, clawed out a red Nike soccer ball from the claw machine on the first try. Then we head home to the villa.

After devouring our delicious lunches, John thoughtfully created a random drawing that assigned each of us two house chores ranging from brooming the balcony to cleaning the toilets. Luckily, I was assigned to clean windows for both my chores, (sooo easy). So yeah, the rest of the afternoon consisted of us cleaning, eating, and sleeping.

Then for dinner we ate at the same restaurant we ate at on the night of arriving in Buja. Unfortunately, on the way to the place, we lost Mama Mumf and the students in her van. Luckily, Dr. Stewart and John found them in one piece back at the villa. After finishing out last Italian meals, we headed out to eat out last gelato. Then Franco invited all of us to his place. He graciously offered all of us snacks and drinks, including some grappa. It was getting late, none of us wanted to leave, but eventually we all said our goodbyes. What better way than to end our trip with Franco.

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