Day 5 Highlights

Overslept this morning, but since we have to wake up so early for breakfast/bus/class I was fine. We toured a "nursing home" this morning with Laura from CEREF (the organization thats doing our class). It was not a nursing home at all. Imagine 5 Greenwich Hospitals on a massive piece of property so big that it's like it's own town - that was the nursing home. It was absolutely gorgeous.

After touring the hospital we had lunch at our favorite restaurant. They cooked us pizzas in their brick oven. It took a while because they could only do so many at a time. Tomorrow they're making us chicken and pasta! Yay! Then we had a short quiz that was a little tricky because it was short answer so they could really go either way.

After class Jane, Sarah Fuller, Jess, Michelle (Sacred Heart) and Marisa (Catholic Univ. in DC) headed into Padova. We saw this Basilica that had a car parked in front covered in flowers. Curious we went inside, only to witness a couple being married. Jane got their 1st kiss in a picture - that's a keeper. Took tons of pictures inside there because it was allowed. We then wandered around this giant circle with statues, which was the main plaza. We made our way to the Basilica of San Antonio. Marisa and I had skirts on that didn't cover our knees (the other girls had on bermuda shorts but were allowed in). Marisa and I had to make an offering to San Antonio, and then we were giving basically an orange burlap sac (SEXY!) to tie around ourselves. First we thought we had to cover our legs completely but the security guard just explained that our knees needed to be covered. Since we had to "buy" that, we got separated from the group and were split into 2. We walked around (mass was going on there) but we completely missed the main point of the church - St. Antony's mouth/tongue/vocal chords. Apparently they were in a room but we missed it because we were looking for everyone else. Cameras weren't allowed inside for obvious reasons, but pictures would not do it justice. I have never seen anything so amazing and beautiful in my life. I'll have to search online to find some pictures. I also bought somethings for ahem someone who just had their anniversary/birthday 1 month and 3 days ago and got the same thing except it was in Spanish. wink wink (for those that get this - keep it a secret since I know she won't read this!)

We wandered in Padova after that in search of our bus. After looking at this pretty fountain with a statue of Mary in the middle, we realized we were at a hospital (possibly the one Dr. Gallo works at or the one we're going to tomorrow). We then got lost searching for our bus. We couldn't find it. We saw every bus (3, 11, 12, 13, 18, 22, 24) MULTIPLE times but none of our buses (A, AT, M). We even got on a bus on one side of the plaza, and got off about 1/4 mile down the plaza. We finally found our bus after a very nice ::cough cough: Italian woman explained to us that our bus has been coming the whole time and that we could have taken any of them. Sooo we immediately got on the next one.

We got back to the hotel 10 minutes into dinner, so perfect time. We were all so sweety though! It was 85 today, hot and humid like they've all been. After dinner we worked on our project which is due Tuesday.

Now I've got to finish up my postcards and head to bed. Since Carolyn said she thinks this is like GossipGirl...

xoxo,
Gossip Sarah

(Hi Aunt Joan and Aunt Marty!)