Monte San SalvaTORTURE.

I thought I liked hiking until today. Brinberg, our program director, takes a very "learn as you go" approach to everything. We woke up this morning for a "stroll" which ended up being a 8 mile hike up Monte San Salvatore. I keep asking Brinberg when our fun little icebreaker/name game activity will be and he said this was it. I would have been happier with name, age and an interesting fact.... 

 On our way down we walked through the town of Marcote. Hands down the most beautiful houses and views I've ever seen. Houses here cost from 6-10 million and they have names! SO I started brainstorming and right now I'm between Casa Fiesta or LA CASA... open to suggestions/ LARGE money donations. 

All of the people here look like the girl with the dragon tattoo and there is a MAJOR language barrier which wasn't what I was expecting. Hopefully learning Italian soon but in the mean time I've been brushing up on my charades skills and speaking the little Spanish I know hoping they will understand!

Danced on the bar last night and am going to make it a goal in each major city (proud ma and pa?!). 

The trees here are super artsy looking and I'm convinced they're fake. -->

Something learned: Sometimes waiters put bread baskets on the table here and if you take some they charge you. Mean..