Sicily

Sicily was amazing!!! WE took a overnight cruise ship from Rome to Palermo Monday night. We only paid 50 Euro for tickets, where the ship had a resturaunt and a huge lounge, and a night club. It was funny there was only six of us and when we entered the night club, now get this, we were the only ones there.......HAHAHAHAHAHHAAH...."WE WERE THE ONLY ONES THERE"....HAHAHAHAHHAHAH........awh man it was so funny ..."we were the only ones there"...Hahahahhahah!!!!!.......(sigh, tear wipe)......I guess you had to be there! (Dude, I wrote this pretty late at night and I was cooked, I was going to erase this but I figured I'll leave it anyways)

So we got to Palermo, stayed there for two nights in the old town of the city by the market place. On the second day we went to the beach in Mondelo, next to Palermo which was gorgeous. Thursday we took a train through the country side of Sicily south to Agrigento where we went camping at this campsite on the beach. It was cool we met these college students from France, 43 of them, who were camping throughout Sicily. They were actually going to all the cities we were going so we saw them for the next few days. But that night in Agrigento, after hanging out in the city, when we got back to the campsite, the French people had a beach bonfire going on, we pretty much crashed their party and hungout with them for a bit. It was crazy everywhere we went, a lot of the pepole we talked too, we were able to do a little evangelizing. When ever anyone we'd meet throughout the whole trip would ask me what I was studying in Rome, it would open the door to talk about the school and about the mission.
The next day we went to the Valley of the Temples, which were Greek ruins, pretty cool, it was a beautiful day that day. Then in the afternoon we went to the southeast part of Sicily to Siracuza, which was also beautiful, and it was dope because it looked like an old pirate's port. The night life was poppin', there was more than a few Americans we met who were studying abroad out there. Then we went to Taurmina on the north eastern part of the island, which a rich touristic town on top of a hillside. The place was beautiful, the picture I took doesn't give justice to the feeling you get of being there and experiencing everything. It was nice, since it was still Easter, (did you know that the Church celebrate Easter for eight days, from Easter Sunday to till the next Sunday, They call it the Easter Octive, 8 days) everyday I wanted to make sure we at least had one real good meal, so we pretty much ate like kings at the best resturants recommended by our guide book. I made sure we took pictures of the meals before we ate the food instead of after, because it looks better. From Taurmina we could see Mt. Etna which is an active volcano. Before the trip Jean-Francois, was telling me how he wanted to go take a tour of the volcano, and I wasn't at all interested at first, because I just wanted to take more time relaxing and taking it easy on the vacation. But as soon as I saw smoke coming out of the mountain, it looked so cool, it brought me back to when I was in second grade and I had this desire for science class to make a papermashey volcano that would errupt and spit out fake lava. We didn't get a chance to take a tour a of the volcano, but I'll see it next time when I go back to Sicily.
But to end this post, I've got to give thanks to the Holy Spirit for guiding us on the trip. It's crazy because all three of us Jean-Francois, Matteo, and I are very strong minded persons, but there was no arguing or disagreements in our disicion making during the trip. When it would come time to make a decision we stop and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us, and so the whole trip felt like it was paved, everything went smoothly. We had the best time!!!