Hello! How is everyone? I am doing fine. My aunt and uncle came to visit us. Yesterday we went to get gelato at our favorite gelato place. We started to walk home when a flutter of black dots in the sky caught our eye. They were the starlings! So we hurried out onto a bridge over the river where we could see lots of starlings in the sky. The little black birds live all over Rome. At dusk, just before they settle down for the night in the trees, they fly in flocks and create amazing swooping patterns in the air. They just look like a cloud of black dots and they are amazing to watch. Their flight patterns are called “murmurations”, maybe because they murmur to each other in the air. They were noisy! My uncle’s hand got pooped on.
We just came back from Pompeii, Naples, and Sorrento. They are all in the south of Italy. Pompeii used to be a town but now it is made up of ruins. About 2000 years ago a volcano nearby errupted and covered the whole town and all the people in hot ash. Then some diggers started digging and found the ruins of Pompeii, but nobody lives there now. We had a fun time.
Then we went to Naples. There are lots of busy rushing cars and busy walking people. They say Naples is where pizza was born. We had fun there too!
Then we went to Sorrento. It is a little town by the water. There are lots of stores along the sides of the streets with lots of good smelling lemon stuff. Limoncello, lemon candy, lemon soap! The reason there is a lot of lemon stuff is because there are lots of lemon groves around. I bought lemon soap. I love Sorrento! And even though we had some bad weather, we all had fun on our trip.
We are having lots of fun in Italy, but we are going to head home in about 4 weeks. When we get home I am going to miss Italy a lot, but I will also be happy to be home.
Fun Italian word: Limone (lemon).
-Violet
We just came back from Pompeii, Naples, and Sorrento. They are all in the south of Italy. Pompeii used to be a town but now it is made up of ruins. About 2000 years ago a volcano nearby errupted and covered the whole town and all the people in hot ash. Then some diggers started digging and found the ruins of Pompeii, but nobody lives there now. We had a fun time.
Then we went to Naples. There are lots of busy rushing cars and busy walking people. They say Naples is where pizza was born. We had fun there too!
Then we went to Sorrento. It is a little town by the water. There are lots of stores along the sides of the streets with lots of good smelling lemon stuff. Limoncello, lemon candy, lemon soap! The reason there is a lot of lemon stuff is because there are lots of lemon groves around. I bought lemon soap. I love Sorrento! And even though we had some bad weather, we all had fun on our trip.
We are having lots of fun in Italy, but we are going to head home in about 4 weeks. When we get home I am going to miss Italy a lot, but I will also be happy to be home.
Fun Italian word: Limone (lemon).
-Violet
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