Our girl from England -- Nikki Cooper.

As I began working on this Blog, I got out the letters people have sent me over the years. I have all the letters from Campo Members in a box. It has come with me over the years. In all the times we have moved. they have been across the USA twice and have gone across the Atlantic Ocean 4 times! (once when you sent it to me and then 3 times when we moved to Europe and back and then to Europe again). Anyway, I was looking to find people on the Internet. Sometimes when I put in a name, I got too many responses. So I looked in the old letters for clues to narrow the search. In the last letter I got from Nikki, she mentioned that she was starting at university and would be studying French. So when I Googled Nicola Cooper I added French to the search. I came up with a Doctor Nicola Cooper, associate professor of French at Bristol University, specializing in French Colonization. There were links to Amazon.com and other book sites. Then I found a site with her picture and knew this must be our Nikki. I sent an email and was very happily surprised to find that indeed, Dr. Copper is our Campo Italia Medallion Winner. She is in the picture with Beth(USA), Alain (France)and Nikki is in the pink and white. She sent me lots of photos and I am very happy to have found her again. Here are some pictures she sent. The first on is a recent photo of Nikki and her daughter,Ruby, who is now 3 and a half years old. She is good friends of Paulo and Luigi who were at the camp with us. They even visited her in England. This is a picture of them in England.

Here is one of Nikki and Paulo at the second disco we visited.
This picture is of Saskia (Netherlands, Nikki and Paulo (Italy) at the nature park near Pisa where we had a picnic lunch.

This is a picture from the flag raising day. She is in her signature hat and loop earrings and is standing next to Karl from Sweden. Nikki, you sent me lots of info in recent email but I will leave it to you to post any comments or memories. Baci!