Tonight I ran around parts of Gricignano again. My right quad has felt a little 'off' in the last week, so I just worked on running 8 minutes (the last minute fast), walking 2 minutes. I spent most of my time running around soccer and baseball fields so that I could be on grass and gravel. The humidity is still kicking my butt. I only slept from about 1-4:30 last night and so took a couple of naps before noon. I think I was battling some kind of food poisoning this morning, but felt better after getting everything out of my system and sleeping. /*********************************************/ On Sunday I went to church in Caserta with my daughter and son-in-law. Their church meets on the second floor of a building. Jeremy drove us there - enjoying showing how he could get his Mustang over 100 mph on the freeway. I'm glad he was driving. The streets are very narrow and cars make their own lanes. Motorbikes don't have to follow any rules at all and a lot of the drivers have helmets strung on the handlebars if they have them at all. The countryside and cities are very dirty. People don't like to pay for garbage pickup (when the garbage teams are not on strike), so they just open their car windows as they drive and throw out their bags of garbage. Some areas appear to be a 'communal dump' and they said that last winter the piles covered some entire roads. Church was fun. Everyone was very friendly and we visited beforehand. I impressed people because I bore my testimony in both Italian and English. The missionaries were relieved because it was one last testimony they did not have to translate. After church, they had a brunch they call 'breaking the fast' where everyone brings food to share and visits.
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