Days 4-7

Hello everyone, Today was my eighth day in school, and I already want for summer to come back, so I can start sleeping in again. So what’s new with me, you may be asking yourself. Well, lets see, I’m waking up at 5:45 every morning. I might have a new puppy dog. My kitty is no longer sick. And last but not least I’m sadly waiting until “The Invisible” comes out, so I can watch it. But I know that you don’t really care about all of that, you’re just here to see what happens on days 4-7 in Europe, so here you go.

Day 4

Today we participated in an environmental project, involving sea turtles, at a turtle rehabilitation center. We had three rotations to go to. On the first rotation we got to see most of the injured sea turtles at the rehabilitation center. Volunteers worked there feeding and washing all of these injured turtles that had been injured on rocks, on boat propellers, or any other way they could have gotten hurt. On our second rotation we all played a game to show us how hard it is for baby sea turtles to make it to the ocean alive. In the last rotation we shopped around a little bit in their gift store, all the money spent there goes to help the injured sea turtles. Later that day, after we went to the turtle rehabilitations center, we went to the Epidaurus. There we got to see the world famous, well preserved 4^th century Amphitheater. Our guide ended up talking one of ambassadors into getting up on the stage and singing for us, and she wasn’t just singing in front of us either, there were tons of other people there to.

Day 5

Today we went to Olympia. We didn’t get to go on the field though, because all of the workers that worked there were on strike. We were all happy enough though imagining all of the naked men running around out on the field. We later took an all night ferry ride to
Italy.

Day 6-7

We went to Pompeii today, and got to see all of the amazing sites located there. I took several pictures of two victims, from the Mount Vesuvius eruption, there. Later we climbed all the way to the top of Vesuvius; it took almost two hours to climb to the top. It was very hard, it was a steep slope the whole way, and the ground was very sandy so we were all slipping the whole way up. We ended up losing four people on the way up, who had to go back to the bus. We all probably had a pound of rocks in our shoes. When we reached the top, we were in the clouds, we saw everything: the shorelines, the houses, stores, everything. It had to be the best day of the whole trip.

This is one on the many turtles at the rescue center

This is another one of the turtles

The city of Pomeii

The top of Mount Vesuvius
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 Vally by Pompeii

 The city of Pomeii

 The Amphitheater

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