We have done a lot of fun things on this trip and seen so many amazing sights. One of the ones that really was interesting for me were the frescoes that not everybody got to see at the castle in Trento. We were given the option of going back to the castle that we had just seen to see an extra room that they don't let just anyone walk into. We were given little audio devices and walked down this awesome little corridor that looked like it belonged in a movie. We ended up in this small-ish room with very large beautifully preserved frescoes on all of the walls. The audio device started out with April. It told us that the peasants are always smaller than the nobles even if the nobles are closer in the fresco, and the nobles are always pictured in pairs or groups and the peasants are usually alone, working hard. Also the peasants and the nobles are always separated by trees or a fence or some sort of partition. I thought it was interesting that in one of the months one of the nobles who was a church figure was pictured with a female....but the female had a beard because it wouldn't be proper to put a church figure with a pretty girl! My favorite month was January because they were having a snowball fight! It was sad though because one month was missing. They think it's because it was painted on the wooden staircase cover that burned down in a fire. The girls I was with and I almost didn't go back to the castle because we almost weren't done with our lunch but I'm glad that we did go back!
--Naomi (Part of Keni and Tyler's team)
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