Field Trip

The group left Wednesday to venture out to tour the World Food Program, which is centered out of Rome. It turns out that the student intern at WFP was actually a student from Auburn, so we felt the warm hospitality of the south right away. During a powerpoint presentation, Abby proceeds to sit in front of the large, round conference table, which seemed like a good idea at the time. This means that everyone else seated in the room had a perfect view of her face. Let's just say that Abby had a difficult time keeping her eyelids open. It was very entertaining for everyone...excluding Abby that is. Lunchtime rolls around and it is decided that we will eat lunch in the cafeteria. Yes, the dreaded word "caf-e-ter-ia." Everyone gets their plates filled with food and and we all one-by-one go through the salad bar happy because we will soon feed our starving bellies (learning about world hunger can work up an appetite). As we begin to eat we notice that the food just isn't as good as it looked. It was a bit depressing when I realized the smell coming from my fish was actually a stench and the lettuce from my salad tasted like cleaning supplies. So once again, one-by-one our group files to set our treys in the trash area looking very similar to the moment we got them. The sight of 20 treys of food going in the trash AT the World Food Program headquarters was actually a pretty sad sight. I felt like a terrible person throwing so much food away after we learned the statics of how many kids go to school hungry. Talk about feeling convicted!

After our lovely field trip at WFP, it was announced that we were now going to visit Hadrian's Villa to tour the ruins. So just try to picture a group of 20 girls dressed in nice, non-walking outfits showing up to tour this massive villa during the hottest part of the day! Within the first five minutes of meeting our tour guide, we knew it be be a long while before we returned to our bus. The tour was very interesting and we even attracted a young male who just happened to be touring Hadrian's Villa alone, who was also studying abroad. His name was John. Can you imagine the excitement he probably felt when he spied the group of 20 girls...I think he got the better end of the deal.