A Collection of Essays

We are in Gaeta for the winter. Gaeta is in between Rome and Naples. In Italian, they are called Roma and Napoli. There’s an American Navy base here. Gaeta means cookies in Spanish, but not in Italian.

Gaeta is a nice town. It has a medieval castle. I know the word medieval because in a movie called Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures they say “you killed Ted, you medieval dickweed”. It has a good beach. Gaeta has the best ice cream in Europe and probably the best pizza too.

I have made friends from the navy base. I also have made friends with Dutch and Norwegian kids who are living on boats too, and are learning English.

I got a new bike here. I ride it everywhere. I like my bike. It helps me get place after place.

Life in Gaeta

I got a new bike. It’s new to me, but it’s very old. I got a bike because we have no car and will be here for a while. I ride it everywhere. I ride it with my new friends.

We’ve also gone lots of places by bus and train, like Rome, Venice, and Florence. I am the only one that went to Venice. I went to Venice with my grandparents. Oh yea, and my aunt.

I went to an abbey to pick olives. I had friends there. At the abbey there was a dog called an Abutsie Sheppard. They are huge.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was with all the cruisers. Many were not American. It was not with my cousins and grandparents. We ate at a place called the captainery.

Everyone brought food to eat. We brought turkey and stuffing. Some people didn’t eat turkey. Charlotte didn’t eat it because she didn’t think she’d like it, and Annette is a vegetarian. Charlotte is my friend from the Dutch boat and Annette is my friend from the Norwegian boat. There were lots of great deserts. The best was Andreas’ cake. He’s from Norway.

After dinner my friends and I ran around. We played pretend games and danced around. It was fun.