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The Best City Camp in Sicily
Today began my last camp this summer, and the camp director claims it's "The best city camp in all of Sicily." The camp is taking place at a resort with a luxuriously large swimming pool that we get to swim in twice a day, and our lunch consists of the same food the regular guests enjoy. It's fantastic! On the unfortunate side, there's little space free from distraction to work with the children on their English, but they're having fun and are crazy for the pool!
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Francu u' Piscaturi
... stand with live seafood including squid, mussels, clams, and prawns. We also met Francu u' Piscaturi, or Francu the Fisherman, a close friend of Giuseppe's. Francu owns a quaint restaurant very close to the docks and serves what our camp director describes as "fantastic" food. Apparently Francu is famous in Japan because he has starred in a Mediterranean cooking show there. Luckily, Laura was more prepared for our adventure than I was and she let me borrow her camera.
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Possibly My Favorite Place in Sicily...
Cefalu is beautiful!!! My host brother, Paolo, took Laura and I there today and it's just spectacular. It's a little fishing village popular among tourists, but it's clear why! There's a cool church built by a Sicilan king to honor God after he survived a shipwreck. The beaches are sandy and the water is clear and blue. The shopping is cute and interesting. And, it's in the shadow of La Rocca (the rock).
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Quanti anni hai?
... said, “Ciao! Quanti anni hai?” (hello, how old are you?). She was with another girl and a little boy, and they realized we were foreigners right away and tried to speak to us in English, but didn’t know much. But, in the conversation we learned their names: Ester, Francesca, and Francesco, that they’re eight years old, and then we played catch with them. Ester told us, in Italian, that she liked speaking to us because then she could tell her teacher about it!
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No Work, All Play
... the President of ACLE. He had been in Palermo checking up on a new City Camp when the President asked him to take us to our new host family. He, along with his eight or nine year old son, and two teenage girls, all wearing matching ACLE t-shirts, decided to take Laura and I on a little tour of some churches. So… off we went, a bunch of Italians in matching t-shirts followed by two sweaty, tired tourists in travel clothes, into two different churches where two different ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Club Costa Verde


