Friday, August 4, 2017

Stories from Sicily: Presentations and the Tradition of Singing Karaoke

Today we are reintroducing our friend Christina Coon for our blogpost.

A view of the castle, church, and convent (on the far right) as seen from Nicotina in the square.
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Today, we are coming to the end of our field school experience. We worked all morning on our final presentations, which was pretty stressful, but it was nice to kind of have a chill morning without anything scheduled for us to do as a class. My morning consisted of not having to set an alarm to wake up, then I went to get coffee with Chase and Alexis. I got my two cappuccinos so I felt twenty times better after my caffeine. Then, until about 4:30 pm we worked on our presentations. 

Pasta with mushrooms and meatballs 
Students settling in before their presentations




Once 4:30pm came around, we sat in a circle and just made it super casual so it was not as stressful as I thought it would be. I went third so I could get it out of the way, and it was nice not having to worry about repeating things. We had presentations until about 8:45pm because Chase took 32 minutes. Then we had dinner which was sausages and left over pasta which was soooooooo good. 


Christina presents her findings and observations about the mummies, the crypts, and what she learned in the field school 
Sausage!
To end our night, we went down to Nicotina with Dr. Reinhard, and got some yummy gelato. After that we went to the Karaoke Bar, which was a very good time. Dr. Reinhard and Alexis sang Time of My Life, which was awesome! Me, Tommy, Kylie, Ruth, Maggie, and Emily sang some Spice Girls, which was super fun because I love the Spice Girls. Then, we sang Beauty and the Beast, but we were supposed to sing How Far Will I Go from Moana, but it got mixed up with Haley, but we still sang in the background. We did not do as much today as we have done other days, but it was a super fun day and ended it with Karaoke with some awesome people!