Found this map to help us with where the other districts are
and the travel we will be doing to attend, district and zone conferences.
Branches of our District are in Crotone, Catanzaro and Cosenza.
We have made some progress in understanding our role in the
area. It is much the same as anywhere, but it is full time. ‘Invite people to
come unto Christ.’ People are the same, with little differences, we all desire
to know who we are, to understand why we are on this Earth, what happens after
death and while on the journey, to be loved and to love. I have to keep
reminding myself of that because the customs here are unfamiliar to me and I
keep making blunders, even without speaking. The saying is ‘open mouth, insert
foot’, I don’t even have to open my mouth. One of the Sisters told me, “oh get
used to it, it’s just part of missionary life as a greenie.” Hopefully there
will be a time when it is not so often.
We took a ride out to see the olive groves and run into a
chapel outside of town, all by it’s self. The unfinished structure next to the
chapel is not uncommon. Once again our wonderings in the day helped to locate a
member’s home at night. Somehow it’s always harder to locate addresses after
dark.
Superette is one of the stores we use, at the side you can
see shopping carts. You put a euro in and then when you return the cart you get
the euro back or you should, much like the carts at the airports. Our luck has
not been so good. We just take a bag in now. There is only one store, that we
have found, where you can purchase all kinds of things, Food, household goods, a
small scale wal-mart of sorts. This store is outside of town. The area where we live you cannot purchase
food in a store that sells soaps and cleaning products, food is separate, household
goods separate, bakeries, jewelry, party supplies, cake decorations, pizza, all
stores in town specialize in one thing. (Just
to make you drool, Brother B tried a bakery today that he says is Top Notch, French
Pastry standard. The fruit tart was .50 euro. He will be a repeat customer!) Anyway
all the shops are small and are squeezed in side by side and line the street.
I’m not sure how the other missionaries get laundry done on
P-day when it is raining but if we want to have dry sheets to sleep on, you
have to get creative.(this is the laundry room tied to ceiling hooks)
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We were not able to go to the national museum on Monday because
it was closed, so Tuesday , today we went. It is a place we thought we can be
of some help, trash clean-up for one thing, the area is huge that with castles
walls and ruins. We spent an hour walking through and reading then we asked if
there was something that they would have for volunteers to do. At first they
were sure there was little that we could do, then the director came out to meet
us and he was delighted Carl could speak Italian. He asked Brother b to
translate all the little plates in each display case. We have some work, and we
are excited to have something that would be helpful and we will like to do! We
have to return and get the particulars of how they want to do move forward this
afternoon. We will get to know these pieces of history very well.
1. The first case has items, arrow heads and stone hammer heads
dating back to 4500 BC! Yikes!
2. This pottery is 700 BC, it looks like some
pottery we have seen at Mesa Verde and other places.3. Greece vases almost everything shown is from that time period, 600 BC to 4500BC
4. Hera"s ring, it looks like the original CTR ring.
5. Hera's Crown, the prize of Crotone.
6. Coins, were they always round?
7. Most interesting, Men riding , looks like dolphins , carved into slabs , several in case, not many showed up!
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