Friday we had a fake town hall meeting. Sardinia has been victim to contamination by Italian military bases in the past. For our town meeting, we were all given a role to portray. As a group we had to come up with a solution to the military contamination that was supposedly causing "Querra Syndrome". We had moderators, goverment officials, consultants and townspeople rolls. We discussed the facts, different options and finally settled on creating national policies for military base activity with later funding for remediation.
Today we were able to see a festival! We headed into the countryside where we saw people of the town of Orroli preparing a parade. The parade consisted of townspeople in traditional clothing riding horses, then families in decorated trailers tossing cookies to onlookers, people walking in traditional clothing and lastly the cart containing the statue of the saint. The parade ended at a church that the saint was relocated to. There was later some dancing and feasting!
My time here has been incredible! I wouldn't change my experiences here for the world. Thanks for reading everyone!
Audriana
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