Last Wednesday I went to a party that the University hosts a few nights a week at different bars. It was fun... lots of people my age from many different places. Our "bologna family" as I think Alex then named us had a nice dinner at her place before & I met two new people, Dide from The Netherlands and Gianna from UC Berkeley! Then we went dancing all night. Basically all the songs are pretty well-known American songs, so they're very fun to dance to :)
(the majority of us that went dancing)
Saturday 6 of us went to Venice just for the day (it's about a 1 1/2 hour train ride). We just walked around for a while... to Piazza San Marco & back to the train station, with a nice lunch in between (I had the most delicious gnocchi!).
((Some pics of Venice))
That night we went out for my birthday dinner. It kind of gets old when on every menu there is only tortellini with pomodoro or ragu, or tagliatelli with ragu, or tortellini in broth. But I at least found some tortellini that were stuffed with something and came with asparagus sauce (finally, something (sort of)different!) and they were delicious. I made a cake & brought it and then Dide who is Dutch made me a Dutch Apple pie!! It was absolutely amazing & we all ate the desserts at the restaurant.
Yesterday (Sunday) was my actually birthday (22!). It kind of didn't feel like it all day though, without my family & friends from home or enough pink clothes to wear and feel special. The family I live with kind of just stayed in their own rooms all day & when I came upstairs at 6pm the house was dark & everybody was gone. That could have been a very depressing/lonely birthday but luckily it was Susan & Lily to the rescue. They invited me to come have burritos with them. Susan cooked everything (and it was amazing)...and so nice to have Mexican food! We had fun just hanging out/talking for a while & then went and got the most incredible gelato. I got chocolate and coffee... the chocolate one was so thick that it was almost like cold frosting... it didn't melt unless you chewed it.
Today I'm hoping to do a tiny bit of shopping... maybe get a cheapish black coat with a little bithday money from my lovely parents so that I don't stick out like crazy when I walk around Italy (which is basically what happens if you wear anything besides black or just dark colors right now). I should be able to find a good sale because stores are starting to put out spring clothes (although it's mostly still in the 40s for highs). The rest of my money I'm trying to conserve for short weekend trips. This next weekend a bunch of us are going to Florence, and I think there are a few more weekend trips in the planning stages right now. It's so wonderful to have met people that I can have fun and experience Italy with. I'm very thankful.
Sadly there was no way (that I'd heard of) to watch the Super Bowl here. Most people that I talked to actually seemed to think the Super Bowl was for baseball. I'm happy especially for the King family that the Packers won (or more that the Steelers didn't :) )
I just can't believe Lea Michele was in Dallas and I wasn't there!
Baci a tutti
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