A Quick Jamaica Account

Hey everyone,
I just got back from a missions trip to Jamaica yesterday. It was an experience that I am never going to forget. My relationship with Jesus Christ has exponentially grown stronger. I'm sorry that I can't write much, but I only have today because I leave for Italy very early tomorrow morning. I will write about that and more about this when I get back.

Here is a picture of my team and me.

Were back home already

Hey everyone,
I'm back in San Diego. I liked Italy just like I always do. The last place we stayed was in Umbria, right outside of Assisi, at a place called Brigolante. There were two kids there named Niccoló and Leonardo. They were both younger than me but I still had a good time with them.





These are Leonardo, left, Niccoló, middle, and me.






And this is their mom.

Their place was really nice, although it was raining most of the week. One of the days we went to a cooking lesson at one of the ten best in all of Italy. I had a great time.


















Then another day we went to our friend Judith's house. She made and lunch and we all had a good time. She has been my friend since we lived in Italy and she is a really good cook too. Several years ago she helped me with my drawing.

That was all our last week in Italy. Now I'm back home.
See you next time.








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My Newscast Project

Da due o tre settimane sto facendo qualcosa per la scuola......Oooops wrong language. The past couple of weeks, I have had a social studies project to work on with a group. The project was a newscast from the past. We got to chose what we could do it on. At first we were going to do it on Japan, but then I thought about what I know about and what I can do. I then thought about doing the Renaissance, because that is when Leonardo da Vinci lived. I really like him and his inventions. I remembered that he was Italian and that I speak Italian. So, in the newscast, I start out talking in Italian. Great idea, right. So we got the script together and who each of the characters were going to be. I was, of course, Leonardo Da Vinci. We filmed at my house. When we were done, my Gramma had to figure out how we were supposed to edit the movie we shot. After a long long time of trying to figure it out, she finally got all of the clips that we wanted together. It looked good and she did a real nice job, thank you Gramma. There were a couple things that we needed to add and change, though. When she figured out how to edit it, she showed me how to do it too. The next day, my group came over, yesterday, and we finished it.Well, most of it anyway. We were going to put it on a DVD, but we did something so it would not go on. So after they left, I had to redo all the things that we did and more. When I finished it looked like this.





I hope you think it was good. We worked really hard on it.
See you later

Sant' Antonio

We're at Sant' Antonio right outside of Montepulciano in Italy, but, too bad we're leaving tomorrow. It's nice here. I've been coming here since I was 4. I love it here. Tomorrow we're going someplace else that also I love, Fattoria Viticcio.

I have two special friends here as you've known before--Sofia and Filippo.


Lately Filippo has been making me laugh, hard-hard-hard. I've been having a great time. Sofia and I get along very well and we laugh together. When I first came to Sant' Antonio we couldn't talk to each other. But, now, as you know, I speak Italian so we can talk with each other. And Sofia's doing a good job speaking her English. When Sofia and I are talking, she wants to talk in English and I want to talk in Italian--what, cosa, chi, who.

Two nights ago there was a big dinner here for all the guests that are staying here. It was really fun. The kids had pizza, pasta, meat and dessert. There's a lot of kids here from different countries but we all manage to communicate with sign language. Some speak English, some speak Danish.

We haven't been driving anyplace when we were here. We just stay here and relax and I get to play with Sofia and Filippo and other children. And everything you see is beautiful.

Yesterday I played with Sofia and Filippo all day. At lunch with them, Filippo made us all laugh. Then after lunch their cousin Olivia came. She's coming again today. We played hide and seek.

Then we went to Sofia's grandfather's palazzo--a really big house, a mansion basically, that's about 400 years old--in Sarteano. It seems about as big as a football field times two because of the upper deck. The ceilings have amazing frescos on them.

There were two boxer dogs and the female had puppies. They are so cute. There's one that looks like a baby Sofia's dog named Caio. I really want to take one home with me but we can't.

Then we all went to dinner and had fun and played. And then we came home and went to bed. It was almost midnight.

Here's a slide show of all that stuff I just wrote about.




See you in Greve.

Not Much Time Left

until I go to Italy. It's only about three weeks and three days. You can check on my sidebar and see even the minutes and seconds left. It is so cool. My Gramma and I took a long time on it.

We are leaving two days after school is out which is June 16 and we're leaving on June 18 and get there June 19 cuz it's a lot of time difference. We 're flying into the same airport as last time over in Florence (Firenze). It's a very small airport.

We've made a list of stuff that we are going to take to Italy but it's not going to be nine bags like last time. It's only going to be a hundred bags. Just kidding. I'm going to bring my roller blades. I am going to bring them because Camilla has roller blades, too. She is my sister (sorella) in Italy. There's a lot of space to skate with them.

While I am there we are going to have a double birthday party. Camilla decided that instead of having her birthday party for turning 9 (last November) to wait till I got there to have a double birthday party for me turning 10 and her turning 9. All my friends from school (scuola) and new ones I don't know will come to our party. We are going to swm and have a lot of fun. All the boys are going to get things here called Tech Decks in their goodie bags and girls are getting other things. Camilla, you're going to have to wait for what I have for you.

We need to start packing pretty soon cuz there's not that much time left--3 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes and 2 seconds.

Arrivaderci

Only Two More Months

I can't wait--I just can't wait. It is only two months from today that I get to go back to Italy to see all my friends. Then I get to stay there for two months. I wish we were moving there again so that I could go to school there next year. But, gramma and papa said we can't because the dollar is so bad and that I need to get my education here. I wish we could.

I can't wait to see Camilla and Tommy and all the others and Signora Franca and Sara and Bruno.

What I Miss About Italy

I'm back home but I still miss Italy. These are the things I miss:

• Signora Franca's lasagna
• Signora Franca's pizza
  
• Signora Franca's granddaughter--Camilla
• Signora Franca's dogs--Pimpi and Lenticchia--Camilla's dogs
  
• The street where I took walks
• Being free to roam by myself
• Gelato--I like after eight, puffo
  
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• Tommaso
• David--Big Statue in Florence
  
• Carlotta
• Silvia
• Francesca
• And all my other friends that were in my class
• La Cantinetta di Rignana
• The piazza
• Bruno and his bread that he gave me everytime I went in his store
  
• Oreste
• The Grog Shop
• Snoopy's
• Sara and Sara's Dad
• Crystal hunting
• Playing with Pimpi and Lenticchia
  
• Playing with my sister Camilla whom I really, really miss
• Making a tent and doing our homework together and then watching a movie
• Merenda
• Valentina
• My teachers
• Good school lunches--yeah!
• Snow--one day in spring
• The sunrise and the views
• Our apartment
• All our trips to places in Italy
• Sofia
• Nico
• Siena--the Palio
  
• Il Portico in the piazza--yummy, yummy lasagna
• Judith
• Giulia
  

But I get to back in 4 months for 2 months--I can't wait.

My Classmates and teachers in Greve.