Last Night in Italy  .....

Well, it is 10:30 p.m. and it is my last night in Italy.  Yesterday the group of volunteers had a private tour
by the Presidente of the schools...similar to our Superintendent/Principal/Director....he has all of those jobs.
He is a historian and author of books about the Monopoli area and he wanted to take us around and explain some of the sights.  It was a very nice tour....pictures to follow this.

The night before we went to dinner in the piazza at a nice little place.  But before dinner we went to a concert that a man in our hotel had asked us to come to.....Ensano Jazz....we thought, oh, great, should be really good.  The guy had an extremely low voice and said he would be breathing fire, etc.  We get to the church in the piazza where the concert is scheduled...we sit near the back....the concert starts with this man that told us about it....OMG it was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen.....I can't even describe it.  He was making all these weird singing, screeching, low, high, crazy noises with his voice.....so now Kellie, the 21 year old, is hysterical, Ginny, sitting beside Kellie is holding it together.  I am beside Ginny and can't look at either of them or I would lose it.......since we were having a hard time controlling ourselves, we decided to leave so we wouldn't disturb any one.   It was just the funniest thing......I guess art comes in all forms.....

After we got back last night from dinner we went to the pool bar and had a few drinks with some other guests that we had met at the hotel while we were there....had a lot of laughs.

Everyone has gone on their way....Ginny and Kellie flew home early this morning to Massachusetts and Ohio.  We dropped Michael at the Brindisi Airport earlier this morning and he is on his way to Pisa and then Florence for 11 more days.  Gail dropped me at the Hotel in Brindisi where I have been spending my last day.  And Gail, our team leader, went to Lecce for another week of rest and relaxation.

It was a nice vacation and a learning experience for me interacting with the students for the last two weeks.
It's nice to see how other people in different cultures live their daily lives.   There are so many beautiful places to see.  The people in this region of Italy are so curious and happy to talk to Americans and they just love our country and what we represent....it is really refreshing.  When you talk to people on the street and they ask where you're from....when you say the USA, they just light up....it's really nice.

Well, I need to get some sleep because I have to be up really early for my flight back......I hope you all enjoyed my trip to Italy .... I enjoyed sharing it with you all!!!