We’ve been here for three days now, but it hardly feels like
that because everything has been such a blur. It’s going to be a pretty busy
month though, so I suppose I’ll have to get used to that feeling. In these
three days, I’ve already been stuffed with so much Italian food that I have no
idea what to expect at the end of this trip. I might come back to the US a
hundred pounds heavier. I might even come back a wine snob (but I doubt that).
Even though we live in the city, today we were able to
travel out to Barumini and see an area of Sardinia that is much more rural. Accompanied
by our archaeologist tour guide and translator, we went to some of the Nuraghe,
which are ancient structures that are scattered across Sardinia. I had read
about these before coming here so I was pretty interested to see one up close
and personal. It consisted of a lot of spider webs and some extremely steep,
narrow stairs, but all in all was pretty neat.
We then picked up a second tour guide, who brought us on a
hike where we could see these miniature horses that are indigenous to Sardinia.
There are only 700 of them left on the planet, and all of them are running around
on this island. We also saw about a million sheep, which, theoretically, is
only one-fourth of the sheep population on this island- as it turns out, sheep
outnumber people 5:1.
Tomorrow we start class, which will be interesting but
(maybe) a little more boring than what we have been spending our time doing so
far. Personally, I’d like to go back to the beach, but I really can’t complain,
considering I am where I am…
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