Modena

Darn, I missed journal-ing my journey on Monday.
I was too tired! We planted at least a hundred some little plant thingys...I never remember what anything is called; I will start putting a pen and paper in my back pocket at all times.. so I can write everything down! Anyways we did that and it was quite the work out. Wait! I think it was called Finnochi! Ok, then it was a pretty laid back first official day of work because this week is "Faire L'augosto"- that Italian holiday made just so everyone can have a break from the heat. Lucca, Lisa, and I went to Modena, met up with Irena, who is one of the worker's daughter, and we took a tour of the city. My legs are now sore from walking so much, but it's a pretty small town and it's cute! Yesterday the city was pretty empty and the free biking store was closed (it's closed until August 16).

Lets look at the city of Modena!


Irena says this is one of her favorite houses in Modena! This whole yellow house stretches out even longer towards the back for about 3 blocks! The grapevines that you see growing atop the balcony level are rare and one of the last grown in the 20th century! Sadly no one lives in the house because the two brothers who own the house are arguing what to do with it!....

This is a Roman Gothic church, one of the first of it's kind!
 And even though most other things in the town were closed for the Holiday, Irena said the priests don't take vacations, so we got to have a look inside.

 It says Jan here and there is a man sitting there trying to make a fire for the winter. This little picture thing is carved on the pillars next to the entrance of the church to inform the illiterate of the things they do each month...on top of this Jan carving is then Feb and so on and so on, the pic are different for each month.











I thought that this looked like Curious George but anyways this is the August picture, the month we are in now; so that is me working on the farm. 

 GELATO TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There were two of these spinning flavor machines....So many flavors i just chose randomly...

 I'm Rue! That's right, tree climbing in the park!
little kids climb these trees, since they are so easy to climb with all the sturdy branches. When I was up there, I got pretty high and I asked Irena if anyone ever died falling off this tree. And she said that of course no one had fallen, but once a man tried to hang himself from the tree...that's when I freaked out and rapidly started to descend the branches without even knowing I was doing so...









Anyways lots of free time after working in the fields, because we don't work when it gets hot so I've just been drawing some Italian stuff. This is a hand sculpture I saw somewhere and the bottom is the coffee maker I use to make awesome Italian coffee every morning!