Busy week, no time for creative blog titles

Its been a while since I posted last, which is because we have had such a busy week with a lot of work and a lot of fun activities.

Monday was a busy day for school. In the morning, we had a lecture from Stefano Milia on remediation of contaminated sites. Then in the afternoon everyone headed back to the guest house to work on the second project.

Tuesday was a busy day in the fun activities department. We woke up early and headed down to the waterfront at 8:00 for a morning of sailing. We had a quick lesson on land and then split up into three boats to learn how the boats worked first hand. We spent the beginning learning how to steer the boat and then stopped and tied our boat to a mushroom shaped rock and jumped out to go for a swim. Ted sacrificed a little skin to the rock and everyone got a little bruised scrambling back on to the boat afterwards, but it was definitely worth it for the cool, clear, perfect water. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, partly out of fear of losing my camera to the sea and partly out of enjoying the view too much.

After Audriana steered us safely to shore, while the rest of us napped on the bow, we got  lunch at a nearby snack bar and headed to the beach to enjoy the water some more and bake a little bit in the sun. Everyone ended the day exhausted and ready to pass out.

On Wednesday we had our final technical visit to the Villaservice Plant, which encompasses landfilling, anaerobic digestion, recycling and landfill gas cogeneration. Our amazing tour guide, who had really great English, despite having only spoken with English speakers a few times before, gave us a great overview presentation about the plant and then a tour around the plant.

After that we headed to a nearby park for a picnic lunch (that the majority of us ate on the bus beforehand) and to hang out by a waterfall (which ended up being more of a trickle). Nevertheless, we still managed to find some fun and climbed some rocks, hiked up the mountain, relaxed in the shade, and of course as always ate some ice cream.

We came back after another tiring day and everyone spent a little more time blogging and project doing.

On Thursday morning we headed to Campidano Ambiente for a presentation on door to door collection by Professor Massidda, one of Annalisa's former professors. 

They then gave us a nice lunch and we headed back on the city bus, but not before working on forearm tans while waiting for the bus to arrive. The rest of the afternoon was spent back at the guesthouse, getting work done on the project.