Group Leader: LaTash King

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Additional Chaperone: Jennette Everett

Ms. King and I traveled to Italy with 10 Lively students.  We had the best time.  The focus of the tour was Sustainable Farming in Northern Italy.  We started our tour the moment we landed.  Our first stop was Turin, Italy.  We visited the Superga Hill & Basilica.  We did a guided tour of the city and then the students wanted to go to the automobile museum where we got to see a lot of old cars in pristine condition.   After Turin, we visited Cuneo.  The students loved it here because our hotel was in the city center.  Some of the highlights of our trip included seeing how a type of blue cheese was made at a local dairy farm, making pasta from scratch at a wine vineyard and getting to eat it for lunch (vineyard photo on the left), and visiting an olive grove to see how olive oil is made.  From Cuneo, we left for Nice, France.  We took a day trip to Monaco (2nd smallest country in the world --- only to the Vatican City).   We visited a perfume factory near Monaco and got to see how perfume is made.  

The food was delicious.  For our first dinner in Turin, we had a pesto pasta that was delicious.  We had our fill of pizza and pasta on most days, but we did enjoy an American night with burgers as well.

Traveling with my students was an amazing and memorable way to see Italy.  I loved that we got to go to cities off the beaten path and not just the big cities in Italy.   I enjoyed watching them all make the cheese and the pasta or shake the olive trees.  It was fun and engaging for them.