Tuesday, September 30, 2008

My life at Agape



Even though many of you were able to see my photos and hear stories of my village while I was home changing my visa I thought it a good idea to post a few of my favorites for all to see and to be immortalized on the interweb. So here we go. Here's a brief photo journal of what happens in a day at Agape.




In the morning I wake up to a view that looks something like this. I generally take a few minutes pinching myself to be sure that I really live in that place. After I've convinced myself that it's real I Happily walk down to enjoy breakfast with the other residents, campolovoro, and campisti




After breakfast we all get to work...



There's always alot of work to be done at the center sometimes there is cleaning...





Sometimes there is work to be done on the center itself...

But always there is cooking to be done.







After cooking is finished and on the days that there is no camp all of the workers head outside to enjoy a nice lunch al fresco.







After lunch we all take a long break from all of the work and it usually looks a little like this...










After we have a nice nap in the sun it's back to work for the afternoon.



And we do the whole thing again for dinner.
It's a good life I have in Italy

A long over due update

I'm so sorry for the lack of posting, I promise I will be better about it this time around. As I'm sure most of you know I was offered a residency position for a year at Agape which I gladly accepted. I'm headed back to Europe for a year and couldn't be more excited. This time around I will spend 10 days in London visiting some friends and hopefully taking a trip to visit my family castle. You can see more info about the castle here http://www.btinternet.com/~whittington.castle/ I'm really looking forward to this trip. I'll be the first person in my family in at least 3 generations to have visited the castle. Not only will it be amazing to see this piece of family history but I'll also be able to cross of one of the items on my life to do list. It makes me feel quite accomplished. I'll be sure to post photos after the trip as I'm sure all of you will be anxous to see them. Please continue to send me news from home as I won't be making it back to the States until at least mid June of next year.