Friday was the group trip to Pisa. We started the visit in much the same way as our other day trips, we went to the Synagogue. Similar to other Synagogues that we learned about, if you didn't know what it was you would never think that it was a Synagogue.
After that we went to the Jewish cemetery which is situated just outside the walls of the old city. What was most interesting about the cemetery was the age of some of the tombstones. Ones originally from the cemetery dated back to the 1600s, however there were also ones from the 1200s that had been moved there. Our main activity was to do a grave rubbing. I chose to do a rubbing of the grave of the communist teacher that was killed in front of his students.
After that Ilana and I headed to the train station to catch our trains for our weekends away from Florence. It turned out that we were actually on the same train, but not sitting together. We still managed to spend a fair bit of time together, which helped make the five hour train ride go by a lot faster. The exciting part of the trip was when I missed my connecting train in Aversa because the train out of Pisa was 20 minutes late. Luckily I found a pair of British women who spoke Italian that were in the same situation as me, and I was able to follow them around in order to get where I needed. I actually ended up getting in to Benevento only 40 minutes later than I was expecting to.
