Summer

Summer, summer is a great thing. It gets you out of school for 2 months. That is a long time, out of school. It’s hot, sunny, and best of all its not cold! In my summer brake I usually go to Italy for the month of July to get into some real heat.

When I’m there I like to go to the beach, visit family and travel around the country.
When I’m in Italy I go to beaches in San Vito Marina and Pescara. My favourite beach is in Pescara because the water is always warm and there are not many people there. My other favourite part about going to Pescara over San Vito Marina is because the waves. The waves are massive, like not tsunami massive but a good 6 feet high. It’s so cool just getting murked by these massive water creatures. There is also a lot of shopping so when you are tired of swimming and getting hammered by the waves you can go chill at a bar/restaurant and get a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. After lunch you can go shopping in the stores. But in San Vito Marina the waves are smaller  but there is a pier you can jump off. The pier is like 20 feet off the water so sometimes when you land wrong it can hurt a lot. After swimming I go back to my grandma’s place and crash for an hour or 2 until dinner is ready.

When I go to Italy I stay in Lanciano. My family lives in San Vito Marina so we have to take a bus there which takes around 20 – 30 minutes. But the busses are coach, so it makes it a lot better. Or I can take a luxury train which takes around 15 minutes. When I get to the city I have to walk around 10 minutes to get to their houses. When I get there we eat lunch and chill and talk, but of course they all speak a slang Italian so even with my partial knowledge of Italian I still can’t understand because they don’t speak proper Italian. So during the time I’m chilling at their house and eating lunch it is really aqward. But after lunch we go to the beach so it’s all good. I have no family anywhere else.

When I am there I stay in a little town called Lanciano, so to get to some good sightseeing and shopping we have to travel to other, bigger, well-known cities like Rome, Venice, Florence and Pescara. To get to most of those towns we have to travel a long way, like 5-6 hours long. We take the train, because they are really nice and comfortable and fast. When we travel to bigger cities we shop a lot and eat a lot. When I went to Rome I went to Spanish Steps and the Ferrari Store and of course the Vatican. When I went to Florence I saw the Doumo and shopped a lot. When I went to Venice I went and took a boat to an island I forget the name, but it was really cool. We also took a gondola through Venice. I liked them all the same for different reasons.

So, that is what does most of the time in my summer. I love going to Italy for my summer break. But this year I want to go to school there (CCI) my brother and sister went there so now I want to go there too, of course. So that is why I love my summer.

Mike