Agrigento.

so the last few days have been crazy in sicily. tuesday we went to a school that studied cooking and agriculture. weird mix...i know. well the part that is about agriculture has 176 students and only 10 of them are girls...crazy. we got to learn about cow sperm......yah. they did ultrasounds and showed us different stuff. we each got ultrasounds on our necks. i suggested they see my food baby. i figured it was big enough now to tell weather its boy or girl. ahah. sad....well anyways. then we went to a farm out in the country or caltanisetta. we had picked mushrooms that the students grew and we grilled that and some super fatty pig. it was delicious. well yah we went with a class of 17 boys. they never see many girls, never any new girls at that. it was a crazy afternoon. i wish i knew more italian. they found it funny to talk about us when we were standing right there. though i understood it, i didn't really know what to say...i don't think moni and i want to go back to that school again. anyways. after that i went out with my sister to a place called 7days. it is a little hangout where her and all her friends chill. they are pretty crazy. there was one, he was 15 and had such a baby-face and i just wanted to hug him. he was so interested and kept saying the few phrases in english that he actually knew. it was a good laugh.
the next morning we all headed out early. we were going to agrigento. that is a city about an hour away right along the beach. there are 6 of us total but yesterday we had 8. there is...Carmen-honduras, Christina-honduras, paola-brazil, michael-america, monique-australia, and me. yesterday we also had two girls from china...who's names i have completely forgotten. we hopped on the bus and headed for the city. our first stop was an old theater. then an old church. out front of the church was a man, probably just as old, who let me take a picture of him. so cute! moni was hungry, so we stopped at a little cafeteria and bought some stuff. to my surprise i found 5 gum. i was so excited i think i scared the cashier guy. i bought some right away. after some more pictures of the city, we hopped back in the van and went to the greek temples. very cool. we walked around there for about 5 hours taking videos and pictures. after that we went to a museum that had artifacts and findings from when the greeks were here. i took pictures of almost everything i could and the rest, a video. i am pretty sure i was some of the same pots in a slideshow in European history sophomore year, so i made sure to take lots of pictures. then....what we had all been waiting for, the beach. it was cold so we didn't swim, but it was still fabulous. we took pictures and videos and laughed and talked about our italy experiences so far. then we got some gelato and walked around the city. the shoes here are dominated by two brands. kawasaki...which is japanese and superga...which is itlian. they both kinda look like vans and almost everyone wears them. moni and i saw some kawasaki ones for only 20€ compared to the 50€ superga ones. so we bought them. she got blue and i got bright yellow :) when we showed the other girls, carmen asked how much they were. when we told her, she got a mad look on her face. she also bought some last week...for 80€. we just laughed. to top it all off. i had some super greesy, homemade, cheese pizza. DELICIOUS. greatttt dayy.
today. both moni and i wore our new shoes just for carmen. we went to the classical school and talked in a class then headed to a scientifical school where we went into a room with two different classes and got stared at for a good 30 minutes...awkward. tonight we are having pizza with AFS and we get to talk about where we come from and show pictures and stuff. so that should be fun.

quote of the day, "we can't go in the auditorium because the roof caved in." the scientifical school was a little run down...fabulous.

lovin life!
lizzie.