Super Rain

Tuesday night was the night of our dinner for our boys. We made the best dinner EVER. Well... maybe not ever, but it was REALLY good. Renee and I were going to make traditional stuffed tomatoes and tomatoes stuffed with goat cheese as an appetizer, but we made too much traditional stuffing first. So we made our tomatoes (a little heavy on the spinach, but good) and Pati and Gina made meatballs (so delicious!) and then Gina made a vodka penne with a rose' sauce. It was really delicious. Emily provided us with tiramisu for dessert. It was the first time I'd ever had it, and it wasn't too bad.
Renee and Emily had it out after the guys left though. I mostly ignored it and they went out with Alex afterwards.

Thursdays are awful. At least Thursday mornings are. I hate the first portion of my Ren Art class. She just talks at us and then sort of condescends on the ones who don't know what's going on. I think only myself and a girl named Sarah are art history majors and everyone else is just taking it. And she knows that. I didn't finsih the reading for this week, since she provided us with about 60 pages, and so when only two girls knew the answers she made some kind of snotty comment about how she now knows who does the readings. Whatever. This is the only week I've fallen behind, and the rest of us are in Italy. We've got shit to do.
So I was last by 15 minutes yesterday, because that's how much I hate that class. On my way to class, I just wondered if I should skip it. But I made it.
I like Ren Art when we go out to see the things. Yesterday we went to the Basilica de San Marco. I half listened to her and I half just talked with Jordan, who is really cool. The Basilica de San Marco was designed by Brunelleschi and it was the first church in Florence to be paid for entirely by one family. (Guess who - the Medici.) Yesterday was Brunelleschi's birthday, or something, so we got in for freesies.
Class was over and she wanted to take us to Orsanmichele. Since I've already gone there with my other art professor, Jordan had to get ready for his intership, and a couple other girls just didn't want to go, we left. We got lunch at Il Centro (3, 24€ for big sandwich and soda?? Sold!) and it was really good.
Thursdays would be a waste of life if I didn't have Cross Cultural Psych later. I always go to CAPA a couple hours early and do my journal assignment for our professor. Her name is Amy. She came over here 15 years ago to study abroad and she never left. I like her a lot. Yesterday I bought the new Builders and the Butchers CD off iTunes for 5 dollars! Not Euro, which was exciting.

We watched a movie in there called Stealing Beauty with Liv Tyler. It's a film by an Italian director, filmed in the hills of Tuscany, starring an Italian, American, British, and French cast. It was really artsy. I forgot how much I hate Liv Tyler. Especially young Liv Tyler. Ugh.

I made a cream sauce last night! Dinner was good. But afterwards Emily decided to have a serious conversation with Gina and I about all the tension. I didn't really want to, but I guess it was for the best. Afterwards we went out and walked around Florence. It was a nice evening.

Today in Italian it didn't matter that I hadn't done my homework because we went to the bar for lunch. It was good too. I got ribollita, which actually isn't that good. It's a Tuscan dish that means "twice boiled." You make a soup one day, with either acqua or vino rosso, and then you boil it agian the next day. You drain out the liquid and serve it like that. But I also got insalate de polpi, which was octopus and potato mixed. The octopus wasn't fried and the meal was full of flavor. Yum.
I also had my first coffee here today. I got a mocaccino and it wasn't too bad. I still probably won't start buying coffee though.

Pati, Emily, Gina, and I are going out shopping today. I don't care if I'm trying to save money, I am buying some new freaking shoes. My feet are always wet, my blue boots fell apart, my sperry topsiders are starting to hurt, and my boots with heels and my orthotics are only acceptable on certain days. I am buying new shoes.

It's raining really hard in Florence today.