Thursday, August 2, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
Arrivaderci...
Ciao (from Linda),
Our GSE trip finished Wednesday evening with a wonderful dinner hosted by the Rotary Club of Venice. I flew home early Thursday morning. Amy, Jenn, Kendy, and Michael are extending their trip to visit other areas of Italy. They will be coming home on June 11, except Kendy who will be extending her trip even longer and coming home June 21. Have fun team!
I wish to personally thank the generous Rotary Club members of District 2060 and their families and friends who hosted us during this trip. I've brought home many fond memories of my time with all of you. Thank you for help in providing this incredible experience. I look forward to staying in touch with you.
I also wish to thank my team leader, Amy and team members Michael, Jenn and Kendy. I enjoyed travelling with all of you and the friendships we've made. I look forward to catching up with everyone when you get back.
Finally, thank you to the Rotary Club members of District 5050 and all the GSE coordinators who made this trip possible. Special thanks to Rod Thompson, Elaine Howardson, Bert van Dalfsen, Tage Cawley, and Rod McLeod. I look forward to seeing you soon to share my stories and photos.
See you all soon...
Linda Finch
Our GSE trip finished Wednesday evening with a wonderful dinner hosted by the Rotary Club of Venice. I flew home early Thursday morning. Amy, Jenn, Kendy, and Michael are extending their trip to visit other areas of Italy. They will be coming home on June 11, except Kendy who will be extending her trip even longer and coming home June 21. Have fun team!
I wish to personally thank the generous Rotary Club members of District 2060 and their families and friends who hosted us during this trip. I've brought home many fond memories of my time with all of you. Thank you for help in providing this incredible experience. I look forward to staying in touch with you.
I also wish to thank my team leader, Amy and team members Michael, Jenn and Kendy. I enjoyed travelling with all of you and the friendships we've made. I look forward to catching up with everyone when you get back.
Finally, thank you to the Rotary Club members of District 5050 and all the GSE coordinators who made this trip possible. Special thanks to Rod Thompson, Elaine Howardson, Bert van Dalfsen, Tage Cawley, and Rod McLeod. I look forward to seeing you soon to share my stories and photos.
See you all soon...
Linda Finch
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Ciao from Linda
Buongiourno!
We are in bella Cittadella. We weather is hot! The temperature is in the mid 30s (the low to mid 90s for our American friends).
We arrived on Tuesday after staying in Villa Franca near Verona for a couple of days. Time is going by so quickly it’s hard to believe we only have a week to go before our trip is over. We have had such an incredible time. We’ve met so many amazing people. The hosting Rotary clubs of District 2060 have been absolutely wonderful. They have gone above and beyond what we expected in terms of providing educational and informative vocational visits, rewarding and meaningful cultural tours, and hospitality that kindness in their homes. Grazie di tutti!
Today will visit Padova for a culture and history tour. Friday we head to Vicenza for the District Congress. Our final destination is Venice. We will be there for three days before I head home on Thursday, May 31. Kendy, Jenn, Amy, and Michael will extend their adventure and travel throughout other areas of Italy.
Ciao for now!
Linda
We are in bella Cittadella. We weather is hot! The temperature is in the mid 30s (the low to mid 90s for our American friends).
We arrived on Tuesday after staying in Villa Franca near Verona for a couple of days. Time is going by so quickly it’s hard to believe we only have a week to go before our trip is over. We have had such an incredible time. We’ve met so many amazing people. The hosting Rotary clubs of District 2060 have been absolutely wonderful. They have gone above and beyond what we expected in terms of providing educational and informative vocational visits, rewarding and meaningful cultural tours, and hospitality that kindness in their homes. Grazie di tutti!
Today will visit Padova for a culture and history tour. Friday we head to Vicenza for the District Congress. Our final destination is Venice. We will be there for three days before I head home on Thursday, May 31. Kendy, Jenn, Amy, and Michael will extend their adventure and travel throughout other areas of Italy.
Ciao for now!
Linda
Monday, May 21, 2007
VERONA
Well just spent four days in Verona and before that we were in Trento. As usual this will be brief.In Trento we went to the firehall and visited a couple of fabulous wineries. Yesterday we had a tour of the Ducaty factory and museum...how amazing, then a BBQ for Amy for her birthday. The day before we participated in a local run. 12,000 people. Linda and I did the 13 km and Kendy did the 5 km. What fun....but oh the hills!!!!!!!!!! Instead of a t-shirt we recieved a box of goodies...such as olive oil, pasta,risotto, juice and wine. Yes we got a bottle of wine. Better than a cotton t-shirt you never wear...lol. Then it was off to the beach. After a 1.5 hour drive we arrived at the adriatic sea were we baked in the sun. I would love to tell you all more about the castles and yaght clubs we have been to but no time as we are off to our next stay. Only a few days until the district conference were we will have the opportunity to see people again. Again sorry about our lack of entries and my spelling ...no time for spell ckecking and the automatic one is in italian...lol
Ciao Jenn :)
Ciao Jenn :)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
From Kendy...
May 12, 2007 (I know I am a few days behind, but we have been experiencing technical difficulties)
Kendy here, today is exchange day and we will be leaving the B&B of Ca'Milone in Conegliano to set off to our new region of Cortina d'pazzo. We were met by the Rotary President, Renalto and Daniella, a Rotary friend who is along to help us with translation. It was about 30-40 min drive to our first stop of Longarone in the Region of Cortina. Longarone is known for the Disaster of Vajont. If you get a chance it is definetly worth a "Google"
Vajont is the story of a massive disaster which claimed the lives of half of the towns inhabitants. Including, as we were to find out, Renalto's family. After the disaster he was raised in a nearby town and has returned to Longarone to live and work as an Architech. The way that he tells the story of the disaster and the towns rebirth is so passionate and you can tell that he feels like it is his duty to tell this story so no one will forget.
This town is unbelievable and has so much history, pain, and suffering yet so much rebirth. Our host Renalto gave us a tour of the town and let us see his office. He has one of the Olympic torches fom the Torino games and was a torch carrier.
Quick stop at the hotel to drop off our things and then it is off to the next stop. We met up with another Rotary member, Olga, and toured around in the mountains, visited the museum of Tizione, the famous painter and also his family home.
After a full day we are headed back to the hotel for a quick pit stop and then more touring and dinner.
Tomorrow it is off to the DOLOMITES!!!!!!
Kendy
Kendy here, today is exchange day and we will be leaving the B&B of Ca'Milone in Conegliano to set off to our new region of Cortina d'pazzo. We were met by the Rotary President, Renalto and Daniella, a Rotary friend who is along to help us with translation. It was about 30-40 min drive to our first stop of Longarone in the Region of Cortina. Longarone is known for the Disaster of Vajont. If you get a chance it is definetly worth a "Google"
Vajont is the story of a massive disaster which claimed the lives of half of the towns inhabitants. Including, as we were to find out, Renalto's family. After the disaster he was raised in a nearby town and has returned to Longarone to live and work as an Architech. The way that he tells the story of the disaster and the towns rebirth is so passionate and you can tell that he feels like it is his duty to tell this story so no one will forget.
This town is unbelievable and has so much history, pain, and suffering yet so much rebirth. Our host Renalto gave us a tour of the town and let us see his office. He has one of the Olympic torches fom the Torino games and was a torch carrier.
Quick stop at the hotel to drop off our things and then it is off to the next stop. We met up with another Rotary member, Olga, and toured around in the mountains, visited the museum of Tizione, the famous painter and also his family home.
After a full day we are headed back to the hotel for a quick pit stop and then more touring and dinner.
Tomorrow it is off to the DOLOMITES!!!!!!
Kendy
Sunday, May 13, 2007
New Fotos!
Michael here, I've put some fotos up (some of Kendy's) on the slideshow section of our blog (listed on the right) there is a mix of very warm people we've met and will hold deeply in our hearts. Rotary has opened a world unapproachable to a tourist, altough the feeling of community can easlily be grasped. We've visited some breath taking places, eaten until we can't eat no more, bouno café, and created a bond between our team that will carry on. The Italian Alps (Dolomites) are everything I've imagined since I was little, a dream fulfilled, although we only stayed for 2 days. We are off to Belluno domne which is close to our halfway point of the trip. Not a man of many words, so check out the fotos and whenever we have time and an iternet connection we'll add some more, also to include other fotos from the rest of the team. Bouna Notte, We miss you all! Hugs from Italy... Michael
Friday, May 11, 2007
BUSY
Ok I do not have alot of time and can,t find the right keys on this keyboard so bear with me. We are having an amazing time here and our days have been quite full of many exciting experiences. Dinner in a castle last night, museums , wine distillery, fire hall, police station, rafting, biking, grappa distillery, provincial park with historical and archeological sites. Sooo many amazing and interesting people. Sorry I don,t have time to give an acurate discription of our days. We are finally doing laundry and have found an internet shop. We haven,t had much luck with the internet so we appologise for not keeping up with the blog. Micheal is at a photo studio and there are 2 babysitting our socks so once we get a chance we will put up photos of our jouney so far. Ciao We must be going as we have our presentation to prepare for tonight.
GSE TEAM ITALY
GSE TEAM ITALY
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