San Gimignano was our next stop which was a nice hilly town filled with pottery places so I of course had to buy some and luckily am having them shipped back home so they can't break in my suitcase on the plane.
The next day was a lecture day. We heard from two Italian speakers. The first class was about Italian schools. The speaker was an American who has been living in Italy for the past 44 years.She talked about how the schools systems were different. Italian schools are very different from American schools when it comes to structure, but similar when it comes to problems with students. Like in America, students are consumed by technology.
Our next speaker was extremely interesting. He is an Italian social worker and he works with Italian Immigrant prostitutes. We works with theme three nights a weeks. Along with a crew, he finds prostitutes and lets them know where they can get medical help and help for other problems as Well. He is rarely able to get women out of the sex trade because of the danger it would impose on the girls and their families. It is such a sad situtaion, but I am glad that people care enough to help these girls because otherwise they would be shunned by society.
Late in the afternoon, we went to mass, but first we took a hike in the woods. It was a really pretty hike and mass was very interesting. For evening entertainment we had a bon fire and told stories and played mafia.
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