Pescasseroli

8am Saturday morning is the time that Isaac and I started our transfer from Milan to Pescasseroli, in the Abruzzo national park, just outside Rome. We took two trains and two buses and finally arrived at 6pm in the evening, to a cool, fresh breeze and wonderful mountains surrounding us. The evening was spent settling in, meeting and preparing for the following day. 

This camp was different to all my other ACLE camps that Ive done because this was a summer camp and not a city one. In Summer camps the children live, breathe and eat with you in the hotel, so you have camp from 8am-11pm and you start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. We had activities like mountain biking, horse riding, swimming, tennis and Frisbee (ofcourse). We had siestas and shower times, with evening activities being soccer matches on tv for the eurocup, bracelet making, bingo, talent show, Mr & Miss Pescasseroli, bbq and disco night. My favourite was definitely the cross-dressing Mr & Miss night, where the boys actually looked like legit girls! 

In the meantime, I changed my flight to leave from Rome instead of Milan to Japan because I was now alot closer to the Rome airport. We taught the kids the lyrics to “waka waka” and dance moves to a mash of songs like ai se eu te pego, cotton eyed joe, waka waka and the macarena. Our final show was on Saturday when the parents came to watch and then take their kids home after. We went into town that night with the new tutors and I left the following morning with a host family. It was so sad to leave Pescasseroli and the lovely weather....because when I arrived in Rome, it was 40degrees! I stayed in the ACLE Rome flat and did my washing finally, walked around a bit, bought lots of fruit and chocolate. Also went into the centre of Rome to watch the soccer game on some big tvs with the rest of the Roman population, and also met up with Jono. I sat on the floor in a supermarket chowing some free wifi and now I sit on the floor in Dubai airport doing it again, before I leave for my flight to Japan! Woohooo!!!