" Forterocca", and Sue and Iz's trip to Florence

The first five weeks of our time of service in Italy was spent in the little town of Bobbio Pellice and working with a team with Operation Mobilization at their center, "Forterocca".  One of the ways we helped out at OM center was with our Italian language skills.  One of OM's missionaries, Iz is studying Italian and needed to go to Florence to meet with an Italian language tutor for 4 days.  Sue accompanied Iz and together they drove to Florence in our car. 

Florence, Italy

 While Iz did her language study Sue scouted out the city in preparation for "Rome Trip", which we will be helping out with in a couple weeks!

What is it about women and leather goods?



Sue arranged beforehand to meet up with Graziella, a friend who lives near "Centro Maranatha", the camp where Sue and I worked at for 11 years.

Graziella

Together, Sue, Graziella, and Iz drove to Sansepolcro (the city down the mountain from where we used to live in Italy).  They stayed in Graziella's apartment and were there for "Market Day".

At the open market Sue met up with another friend who lives down the road from Centro Maranatha, "Doriana"

Doriana's daughter, Laura works as a hair dresser in Sansepolcro.  So got to spend time with laura and Iz was able to get her hair done at the same time!  Meeting up with these friends and their speaking Italian was great for Iz's Italian language learning.