Sicily was amazing. I still can't even wrap my head around what we got to do on this trip, sorry in advanced if this post is a little scattered but so many things happened in a very short amount of time it all runs together.
The focus of the trip was studying the effects of the Mafia in Sicily. Only a tab broad. We met with community leaders who are fighting against the mafia extortion tax in Palermo, people who work on mafia confiscated lands who are using the land for good now, we went to Corleone (of Godfather fame) to visit a museum dedicated to honoring those public officials and citizens who were killed in the mafia wars of the 80s and 90s. We had a delicious lunch at a farm house outside of Corleone, ate amazing cannoli and gelato.
Sicily is also just so beautiful. It's so hard to think about all the evil that comes out of such a beautiful place. The land is pristine and picturesque and there are these horrible people living and making decisions about smuggling drugs or making people pay extortion fees or killing other people in the same place.
I can't even really write about it. So much happened and we learned so much that I can't even fully write about how I felt there. It was too much all at once of important information and all this stimulation and my brain is fried.
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