Sorrento

Besides being drenched in the rain almost every day, Sorrento has been great. There was what seemed like constant rain and gray clouds, but at least there was lemons. The trees dotted with bright lemons added...um, I actually forgot what I was going to say. Anyway, I've liked walking down the ancient, narrow, rain soaked streets lined with lemon and orange trees in Sorrento. Although, when a car decides to come down the small street, we have to press ourselves against the wall in order for them to pass. I find it hard to believe how many people are crammed into such a small place.

 Pompeii was really interesting, except we were victims of the rain yet again and only had two umbrellas. But that didn't stop us from thinking everything was cool. I had done part of my school project on Pompeii, and then I was standing in the middle of it. I find it difficult to imagine that the ruins of Pompeii that I was looking at with my own eyes were two thousand years old, and that the stone streets that I walked on had been walked on by ancient Romans. On the street, you could see the grooves of the chariot wheels. When I look at the brick buildings, or the carvings on the walls, I try to picture the people creating them.....but I fail. I saw many similarities in the ruins compared to us today. There were snack bars, spas, administrative buildings, workout rooms, places of worship, and an ampitheatre where they held sporting events, except the sporting events today don't involve intentional death. The coolest and most interesting thing I saw in Pompeii was the ash casts of the people who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. To look at people in the position they were in when they died hundreds of years ago was really interesting. You could see the imprint of their clothes, and on one you could even see the face. There was even a dog. I think that sometimes people can forget that animals suffered too, not just the humans.

We went on a day trip to a small town called Positano. Although it was small in size, it was not small in the amount of buildings and people. But there was a small stretch of beach that was shielded from all that. I kind of felt like I was in the setting of Pirates of the Caribbean, although I was far from it. There were high cliffs and an aqua ocean. I swore I saw a ship with masts out on the sea. But what wrecked it all was the plastic bags, bottles, and garbage that was sprinkled along the pebble shore. There was also many skinny cats with dried blood and open wounds all over them. This, obviously, did not lighten my mood. Garbage and stray animals don't sit well with me on their own, but together they made a very sad situation, one of which I felt very helpless in. But I still enjoyed Positano, and Sorrento.



     

Yummo.

We're the Beatles, thought Val might like this.

Notice the sliver of ocean in the backround.

Me and Aria climbing Pompeii's ampitheatre.

This is me looking longingly at the sea, I really wanted to swim.

The view as we were driving to Positano.

In Mrs. FW's class, I learned that for every lb. of plankton, there are 5 lb. of plastic in the sea.

These are the ash and plaster cast of the victims of Mt. Vesuvius.

If you can't make out what this tangle of limbs is, its an ancient Roman dog.

The streets of Pompeii.

This is Pompeii's mini Colosseum. Its the ampitheatre where they held gladiator fights.