After a recent stroll past a scuola media or middle school near the eCool Compound, Susan Sanders gleefully returned to headquarters with this fabulous photo. As the school is located near enough to the Compound to serve as a kind-of soundtrack and stage set for all of our various eCooling activities, we were convinced that there are days when the learning level in this particular educational institution is a bit on the light side. This photo, however, gave us a whole new understanding of the place. Clearly, those fashionable middle-schoolers, lingering on the streets around the compound, adjusting their low-slung jeans, smoking, and tagging surrounding buildings are aereonautical engineers in training! Why didn’t this occur to us sooner?
In fact, it’s blissfully quiet at the Compound today. The 1st of May is a holiday in Italy–it’s labor day. There’s no school and no work; the Romans have headed to the beaches and the mountains–a kind of trial run of the upcoming summer holidays.
For more photos by Susan, visit her blog: Rome With A View.
