That song always makes me want to dance.
Tonight is the very last Taco night for Kevin and I! :( Sad! We're switching roles. I always make the queso and he always makes the spicy, but tonight we're switching so that when we get home we'll both know how to do both. Everybody in gli Stati Uniti, prepare yourselves! We're making tacos when I get home!
My oral went well. Only, I said it really really fast, so it was shorter than it was supposed to be. I was a tiny bit nervous. Oh well. She saw it written out, and she knows how long it would have been if I had been slower. I ended it with, "Insegno lei. La prima cena è italiana! è possibile risotto con salsicci." Which, if you had heard all of it, you would know that "lei" is Kim, as in, I'm going to teach Kim how to make Italian food since I'll be living with her, and the first dinner might be risotto with a spicy sausage." Risotto is delicious, I ate it last night. I hope Stace and Tom are okay with not eating meat whenever I cook something, because there just won't always be meat. A cheese risotto = molto buono!
I enter into the Pioneer Woman's website competitions to try and win the fabulous cooking utensils she gives away (thepioneerwoman.com) and today she is giving away an apple green mixer. I'm bound to win someday! I really wanted to win last week's competition - it was a crock pot and a cookbook! The cookbook I'll buy anyway. The food inside sounds delicious.
So, Nemo came last week, which is why my updates were few and far between. As in, I think I only posted one. So our cooking class was not in Italian! How disappointing! I learned all these kitchen terms just for it. It was really hard to remember kitchen terms... I was like, okay, I mash things with a glas... what would the actual utensil be called? What are measurements? I do it all by hand here... hmmm... and I couldn't remember a lot of cooking verbs, but Nemo and Kevin helped me out. BUT there were two other students who didn't speak Italian, so the teacher taught in English. I did get a sweet cookbook entirely in Italian. I can read it too! And Anto gave us a recipe that day in class for popo al pomodori in Italian. Look out world, all I want to do with my life is make ya'll fat. The food was good. We made a pannacotta, which was really easy, and rich and delicate, but not really my kind of dessert. After the class, a bunch of CAPA kids went out, and Nemo obviously came too. I assume he enjoyed it? We taught another kid to play convergence, and he taught Kevin some weird math game. We got home around 3.
We made our very last day trip to Volterra. Honestly, I didn't really enjoy it. The countryside around, however, was beautiful! And I really enjoyed the view. But other than that, it was nothing spectacular. I wish we'd gone somewhere else.
Kevin, Nemo, and I watched The Exorcist and The Village that night. When I returned Catch me if you Can and Night at the Museum and check those out instead the woman at the desk laughed at me, and said, "Molto pensato, eh?" (heavier?) I enjoyed that she was so friendly, because typically, they're not. It's just all business.
Well, Nemo left Sunday. The city is covered in little white parachute seeds. Pati and I went down to the Cascine and the seeds looked like summer snow. That's what we called it. We're so poetic.
The Italian guys here are getting worse. One rode past us twice and then stopped and got off his bike. He tried talking to us, but we both just ignored him and read. In response to this, he pulled out a camera and took a picture of us! UGH! And he was the same guy that bothered Pati in the park by her house. Plus, the other night at Bigallo, there were these guys who tried to stop me from leaving the room by stretching out their legs and then they asked, "do you like sex?" UGHHHHHH THEY'RE SO SKEAZY. Maybe the really bad ones come out in the summer.
We've all been so concerned here because of the volcanic ash. Some programs have already ended, and no one can go anywhere. Some people were planning on traveling by train, but all the trains are pretty much full. It's been really worrisome. Yesterday I resolved myself to staying here because I found out I don't have to register for summer classes til the 10th. And then housing came by and said we could stay until Monday. But Dad sent me an email that said flights from Atlanta to Paris are operating tomorrow, so I think I will get home. The only concern would be if my flight from Florence to Paris were canceled, but today NYTimes said all the Italian airspace was opened. I wasn't sure about that, because they also updated a map that said most of the airports in Italy are closed. But I'll find out.
Well, I have an art history exam tomorrow. Not too concerned. Did the reading, now I just have to memorize some dates. I think Kevin and I are going to watch the final episode of Dexter, Season 2 with our tacos tonight instead of watching a movie, because of the exam tomorrow.
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