An Epic in Several Parts with No Plot

PART ONE: Annie and Becca get lost looking for a fountain.

We followed the map to the place where the map said the fountain was that we were supposed to find for class. Instead we found a cliff.

There was no fountain in sight. A waterfall might have been suiting, since it was a cliff, but there was no waterfall either.

PART TWO: Annie and Becca climb down a large hill which they may have to climb back up.

Becca made me walk down the road on the hill, and half way down I realized that if the fountain was not there we would have to climb all the way back up again. To imagine this hill, look at the photo I have posted on the right hand side of this blog of the Basilica di San Domenico. See how the basilica is on the top of a cliff and there is a road that curves downward on the left side that may or may not look like a hill of death depending on the angle of the photo (it is, if you can't see it. Every time I have walked over the bridge over it in the past I have felt sorry for the people who live on it). There is a road behind the buildings under the basilica that curves up the hill the basilica sits on top of. It is probably steeper than the road in the photo. The fountain is between the hill this photo was taken on and the hill the basilica sits on.

PART THREE: Annie and Becca find fountain

We found the fountain, which I described yesterday, I believe. It was very pretty, really, in all of it's simplicity. We also found a tiny fountain that resembled a water fountain near by and decided to take a picture of it to show our class to tell them as a joke that it was the fountain we were presenting on.

PART FOUR: We climb up the hill you can see in the picture

that's about it for that part.

PART FIVE: We regain the energy we lost by eating dinner with our homestay family and their son, Fabio, who does speak English and seems eager to use it. Fabio's son is the one grandson I have not met yet.

PART SIX: Annie writes a presentation and Studies for an exam.

Boring.

PART SEVEN: Annie takes exam

and hopefully makes an A

PART EIGHT: Annie eats a Watermelon

Yes, that's right. I did it. It was dessert and so I ate it. And I really liked this one too. It was very flavorful, unlike most other watermelons I have eaten.

Right now half the group is in Venice and some of the other half are going to the beach tomorrow. I plan to stay here, buy a sketchbook and draw.