Headed to Europe...

But not quite yet!! I am going to Europe in June! June 6th to be exact! :) I was invited by People to People Ambassadors  to go on a 19 day journey to Italy, Sicily and Greece! So of course I said YES!!! After sending in recommendations and having an interview with two of the trip leaders, I was accepted! Whoo-hoo! I had passed the interview! Thank goodness! I was so worried about that. Now starts all of the meetings I have to attend and all the online classes and quizzes I have to take. At the first meeting, which was on Sunday, February 10th, we learned all of the rules and guidelines to follow on the trip as well as the laws and rules of the countries we were going to be visiting. The leaders then showed us many of the places and landmarks that we would be visiting. There sure know how to make us excited! Visiting Vatican City, touring the Christian Catacombs and the Coliseum, learning how to bake Greek wheat bread and make olive oil at a local bakery, trying our hand at pottery making, swimming and having fun at the water park in Pompeii, all that and much much more!! But we do have to do some educational things. It is an educational trip after all. We will have the opportunity to meet with either a Priest or a Nun from Rome and we will have the chance to ask them about their lifestyle and about the Roman Catholic Church. We will also tour the Italian and Grecian school and interact with the students and teachers. They will teach us the customs, dances and the ways that their education differs from American schools. I do not know everything that we will get to do, but I do know that it will be a blast! I will be posting pictures on this blog and also on instagram. Follow me on instagram at kelseyeray.