Alex Mancoll:
I'm very excited to be on this trip. I've always wanted to travel to Italy, and now I finally am getting the chance. Today is my 17th birthday, and I can't think of a better way to spend it. We are going to tour the Vatican museum today, and I am really excited.
Yesterday we went somewhere that I have wanted to go to since I learned about it in our sixth grade language roots class. I never dreamed that I would ever have the opportunity to do so, but yesterday we toured Pompeii. It was an amazing experience, and it was much nicer than I ever dreamed it would be. I was expecting just the remains of a few stones giving the general outline of buildings, but there was much more than that. There was full walls, and at times almost completely intact buildings. I could really picture what the city used to look like before it fell. There was even intact art on some of the walls. It was a beautiful place, and I am very grateful to have been given this experience.
Later that day we sang at a church in a city called Lenola. It was an amazing experience, and since the town was so small, they made us feel so special, as our appearance was a huge event for them. We then went to a very nice restaurant, where we ate a very nice meal, and sang songs for them. A group of Italians in the restaurant knew some of our songs, and they sang with us. It was an amazing experience. We met these people who can't understand our language, and we can't understand theirs. We then stood shoulder to shoulder, and just started to sing. Music was a unifying force, and it was so amazing to just spontaneously start singing, practically flawlessly, with a group of kind foreigners we had never met before. It was an amazing experience that I will remember for the rest of my life.
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