BK's Travel Blog: A beautiful day in Tenno, but couldn't enjoy it

Our second to last day on the trip, 6/14, started off by walking to a local church to attend mass. We walked through the streets of the small town to get to the little church perched on the side of the mountain. We arrived earlier due to the fact that we were told the wrong time for mass, but we got to hang around and meet some of the locals who lived there. We met one old man who was immediately drawn to our group and all the young girls for him to talk to even though he spoke no English. During mass one of the girls in our group was asked to read the gospel in English for us to understand.

Later after mass we got bused to a location and were told to walk up this hill to a building, but none of knew where we were going, but unfortunately we found the building that was part of Bernelli University. While we were there we got a 2 hour introductory lecture of the whole program that was offered at Bernelli and what exactly our assignments would entail. We broke after the lecture for some pizza and later interviewed an Alumni for one of our assignments as part of our final presentation. After this interview we were taken on a quick tour of the town of Tenno where we saw some great views and an art gallery in a small building.

The tour didn't last too long before we were heading back to the building for more work to do. We sat in our groups and worked on our paper on our pharmacy visit and also got prepared for the next exercise which was to interview locals who couldn't speak English that well, but wanted to try their English skills. I don't believe this went exactly as how the professor had planned, but it was interesting but also a little awkward at times. After basically sitting inside all day and missing out on the beautiful day to see the area we were in we finally got a break from work.

We were suppose to go on a planned tour of some castle by JonCarlo, but none of us really wanted to go and neither did JonCarlo. So instead we just pretended this is what we were doing and just went down to Riva del Garda for dinner and some shopping. We walked around for a bit before heading back up to our bed and bar to hang out and go to the lake.