We got all the students packed up and onto the bus to head back to Rome by 8 am. We had a stop scheduled at La riserva naturale Salina di Margherita di Savoia which is the second largest salt reserve in the world. The largest one is in Bolivia. We had a tour of the salt flats and saw the mountains of salt. The guide said 90 million tons of salt is collected each month. I hope this figure was not lost n translation but that is what I heard. The salt is held in large "ponds" and then harvested. Next it is sent to locations around the world. 
From the salt reserves we headed to lunch and then the long drive back to Rome. We arrived back at AOSR at 8 pm and I walked home. I had gotten to see many locations in Italy where I probably would not have gone except for this school trip. I got to spend time with high energy 7th graders. Sometimes I wondered if I was too old for this assignment but there were 3 great teaching colleagues with me who were great with the students.
We said goodbye to our fantastic bus driver and then I spent the weekend trying to recover and get a normal night's sleep. This was my last school trip and it was a memorable one. -Nancy
2 comments:
You sure it was your last school trip, Nancy?
-Marta
wo w wow wowow.. that's a lot of salt! And yeah, maybe you can chaperone Micah's 7th grade field trip.
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