Today was an action packed day. We began the day by doing a service project. We cleaned up the side of a road by using hoes, shovels, plastic bags and heavy duty gloves in the town of Pyrgos. The roadside was overgrown with weeds. These weeds weren't any normal kind of weed but weeds with 4 inch thorns that could pierce through armour. We worked for about an hour and made quite a difference. We then went into the town and walked around through the narrow paths and among the hillside homes. From there we went back to the port and took a boat to a small island which is part of Santorini, swam at the beach and had lunch. After that we took the cable car up to Firo, had some free time and then got on donkey's for a tour of the caldera. It was quite an adventure for all of us. We then came back to our hotel, had dinner and then swam in the pool.

Hello again, I am lucky to have internet access again tonight! I am sitting on my balcony overlooking Santorini. Today we got up very early, 5:15am and took the ferry to the island. It took 8 hours but was a beautiful journey. Some of the delegates made friends on the ferry. The boy in the picture is from South Africa. After arriving in our hotel, taking a quick swim in the pool, we headed off to the beach(about a 10 minute walk) and had dinner. Afterwards we stolled home after walking for a while on the beach. The sand is black and very hot during the day. Tomorrow we will be getting up at 6:30am, heading off to the cable car and a service project. Afterwards we will be taking a boat to riva beach and that back to the main island for a donkey ride to the top of the caldera. We are all very excited. We will be staying at this hotel for 3 nights but the

Hi everyone, last night everyone went to bed early and got a great night's sleep. We started the day learning how to cook Greek food at a restaurant and the students cooked lunch for all of us. It was delicious. After that we were off to the Acropolis. Here are a few pictures from our day. Tomorrow we get up early for our ferry to Santorini. I'm not sure if we will have internet there or not.

Hi everyone, seven days to go and I'm already having trouble sleeping because I'm soooo excited. I hope everyone had a good time at the picnic. Look for an email regarding the reunion. Make sure your parents know how to log on to this blog so that they can follow our journey

Welcome

January 10, 2009

Hello everyone and welcome to our blog. While January in CT seems far away from July in Europe, you will be amazed at how quickly the months go by when you are anticipating such an exciting adventure. This blog will be a place where we can post questions, information and pictures about our journey. While we are traveling we will use it to send home messages and stay in touch with our families. Please feel free to post sites that you look into while learning about our destinations. Check out this site http://www.walledtowns.com/wtfc/towninfo/austria/friesach.html to learn more about the town of Friesach, Austria. Let me know what you think.

Lisa