Last week, Carlo and Lucia, my host parents, started talking to me about something that was going to be happening on Sunday. I listened attentively and understood that they were going somewhere, and I thought I also heard 'the beach,' and then they asked if I wanted to come, so, putting together what I had gathered, it sounded pretty good to me! Sure enough, Sunday morning Lucia woke me up early and told me to get ready to go to the beach (she noticed how fair skinned I am, and just like a mother, made sure I brought sunscreen). We drove for an hour to a town on the coast called Piombino, then we met some of their friends and took a ferry boat (Steph, pronounced FAIRY), to the Isola d'Elba. It was honestly one of
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