THE 4TH OF JULY IN ITALY - WILL THERE BE FIREWORKS?

Thursday was the second day we rotated our teaching assignments.  Room assignments went very well. As is their habit, two of the girls were late and missed the discussion on the flag of the United States. The discussion on the flag and the US Constitution was due to the date being July 4th. 
After discussing the US Constitution, we dealt with the Italian constitution. I was a little surprised at how little they knew about their constitution. Then we compared the make up of Italy to that of the U.S. 
How do you celebrate the 4th of July in Italy - the same as in the US - with a picnic!  And that is exactly what Team 180 did.  We shopped for our picnic supplies:  pane (bread), salami, formaggio (cheese), pomodoro (tomato),  and of course, olives, chips and docce (sweets).
After returning to our hotel, we prepared for our picnic on the swimming pavilion. It was not the usual hotdog and hamburger picnic, and for that I was glad. Someone had bought sparklers and special mini rockets for a birthday cake. A little bit of misunderstanding delayed our lighting the sparklers, but all was well in the end.

Our Fire Works Display

Sun & Pannini Go Well Togethr

Best Pannino Yet

Life Can Be A Beach In Monopoli

We had a big treat for the end of the day, as we traveled to one of our adult students,Carmen's for a wonderful evening,  The evening climaxed with Marco - another one of our adult students - playing some classical guitar music and a bountiful dinner table.

The evening was so  good, we did not get back to the hotel until close to 1 AM .