Today we said goodbye to Greece and hello to Italy! To start the day we woke up a little earlier than the other days in order to make sure we could catch the train to the airport and have plenty of time to make our flight. Mr. Whitson should try out for the Olympic speed walking team. Man is he fast! Just as we were about to board we were called back as the plane had technical issues. The delay was only 40 minutes and then we were on our way.
When we arrived in Italy we took a bus to Hadrian's Villa, which was very cool. Emperor Hadrian lived during a peaceful time in the Roman Empire, and was committed to keeping the peace, making sure his people were happy, and also creating his massive villa. Hadrian loved Greek architecture, and took a lot of those concepts and incorporated them with his own to create his dream vacation home. It was well preserved and the tour guides Taghreed and Alyssa did a great job. Afterwards, we began the long journey to our own villa 3 hours away. This place is really cool as it sits on it's own set of ruins (including a gladiator arena!). The accommodations are much nicer than what we had in Athens. They cooked us a phenomenal meal, including a birthday cake for Adam.
Tomorrow we get to go to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius.
Kamrom Vishteh & Nikhil Patel
Tesseract 9th Grade Students
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