TUESDAY - MARTEDI - IN ITALIA

Breakfast as usual - the same food - with delightful company. Phyllis reviewed the activities for the day.  We then to the van with Phyllis, Lisa, Jeri, and Michael and were on our own merry way to school. Jan stayed back at the hotel to tutor Carmen and Marco for a three hours session, while Jeri went with Mariella for a grammar class.Then we changed the sentences with opposite meanings. Lisa worked on her bag of card tricks, while Michael answered the their questions about university costs.

From there three of us went to another class and presented ourselves with our short biographies. Michael told them that he taught calligraphy and demonstrated it on the blackboard.  He wrote in calligraphy, the names of those who correctly  gave the exact population of NYC and the USA.  Phyllis worked on English Vocabulary by having them each give a word for each letter in the alphabet.

When the class ended, Phyllis, Jeri and Michael were driven to the Monopoli Tuesday  market.  They returned to the hotel to rest weary feet for an hour and then were off to lunch, with Phyllis leading Jeri, Jan and Michael in a death March to the Cafe Napoli for sandwiches and salads with two ice teas for Jeri.

Grace and Phyllis joined us ate and then went next door to tutor two ladies from the mayor’s office.  The rest of us walked back to our hotel to get ready for our tutoring sessions to cap off a full day.     

But, oh we still had a special meeting followed by our daily group session and finally dinner.  Rita was enough to drop by before we ate dinner with her son,Victorio for a chat.  After dinner, Lisa and Michael brushed up on the salsa, swing, merengue and cha cha.  We had a full day.