Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Since I couldn't sleep last night, I spent most of the day napping after getting up early with Tyler to go to the market. It was really cool! It was pretty much a street with lots of stands with just about everything - fish, produce, cheese, bread...I'm getting hungry thinking about it. Everything is local and delicious and I'm sad that I don't have something like that year round at home. And they're generous, too - we asked to try a piece of smoked mozzarella, and the cheese guy gave us little mini sandwiches with fresh bread, cheese, and prosciutto. They eat a lot of ham here and it's kind of tough to find other meat (except of course for fish since we're on the coast). It was sunny and beautiful, so I took a bunch of pictures of the area on the walk over to the market. After I finished my nap, I got coffee with Tyler (we got lost on the way and wandered around a lot of the town), and after messing around on the internet at school we went and got pizza. I love pizza here. I just got a basic cheese one and it was super delicious. After dinner we went home to get ready for going out and went to a bar that had been reserved for the night for their program. One of the kids did an acoustic set on the guitar, and then there was lots of drinking and dancing...lots of fun. Hopefully the weather will be nice for the rest of the time that I'm here.

Tyler, me, Cate, and Jenna at the bar

Fish at the market!

Street market full of food...mmm

View of Ortigia along an ocean walkway. Apparently when there are intense storms, the water comes up almost all the way up the wall (which was about 30 feet down).

Walking from the apartment to the ocean


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