Project Serve!

The weekend before we started our EFT (Educational FieldTrip) in Sicily, those who wanted were able to give back to our "community" in Italy. We went and worked for an Anti-Mafia organization reclaim produce fields in Corleone, Sicily! We left form Bologna on Friday, October 8th and flew to Palermo, Sicily! Sicily is so different from mainland Italy. Even their dialect of Italian is different. That night we got to meet who we working with and ate dinner. The next morning, we woke up early and went to work on the fields. We spent from 7am to 1pm cleaning up the fields. We were working on grape fields. That afternoon and night we went and heard stories from people who fought the Mafia back in the day! It was very interesting. The next day we were supposed to work in the fields again but it rained the night before and the fields were very muddy. Instead, we visited the surrounding areas of Corleone. Its very beautiful. And that afternoon we went to the Anti-Mafia Museum in Corleone. It was very eye-opening. And we had some really good pizza! On Monday morning, we left Corleone to go back to Palermo to meet the rest of our group for our EFT! It was such a cool weekend; I enjoyed being able to give back!