Woke up and went to my three classes back to back to back. I love Federica my baroque and conservation teacher. Laughed at the many students who returned from weekend trips at 2am this morning yet made it to class by 9:30. Between classes was crushed to find the coffee machine out of order!!!! Rude. But I checked the mailbox for our apartment and found a letter, a letter for me! So after my Baroque class discussed Caravaggio for two weeks I got to read an article from the Wall Street Journal about him thanks to my caring Padre. Grazie! I really love that even though I had to go to class today it was only 3 hours, it was over by noon, and it was ALL art history!!! Thank you Roma!
This afternoon was really bummy again, I wanted to go for a walk but couldn't find company so I just did laundry and went to the store and cleaned up my room a little, just to start the week off right. Tonight Aven, Mattly, and my apartmentmates we are all going to see Nico at work for aperitivi. An aperitivo is a before dinner drink, such as a glass of wine, but when ordered at a restaurant it frequently is expensive but then comes with heavy appetizers. Overall you get a lot of food for a cheap price. To college students this is basically dinner. I am eager to see Nico at work and try some of the amazing food I've heard about! More stories later!
UPDATE: So we went to il Buacocco (Bah-cocoa) where Nico works. It's a small wine bar and restaurant with great desserts. It is a nice little hole in the wall spot and just simple and perfect. We asked if the name meant anything and the owner responded it was the nickname of his bisnonna (great-grandmother)! Super cute. We ordered the "finger food" aperitivo with a glass of wine each, my sauvignon was a little sweet but I still enjoyed it. Keep in mind, student budget = vino tavola (cheap wine) so this was a nice change. With every drink people were served potato chips and spicy little rice cake bites and then nuts (we were the only ones who got pistaccios! For The Win!). Our finger foods included little tastings of: salmon with a cauliflower cream sauce, peppers and eggplant with little tortilla chip bits with a sauce, a sweet cheese with an onion sauce, chicken and eggplant in a thin tomato sauce, and what Kat and I affectionately dubbed "Summer in a Cup". It was so fresh and light, chickpeas cucumbers tomatoes and onions in a lemony sauce. Everything was exquisite and all tasted great with a little sip of wine. All this for 5 euro plus the cost of our wine! Yummy perfection.
All the while there were only a few others in the restaurant so we could chat with Nico in our Italianish (half English half Italian). She is going to try for a scholarship to be a TA in the US for a semester in the spring so she wants to improve her English even more than before. We asked Nico for an Italian tongue twister (scioglilingua) to practice our pronunciation. I learned one freshman year
Trentatre Trentini entrarono a Trento
tutti e trentatre trotterllando
Which means "33 Trentini (people of Trento) entered Trento, all thirty-three trotting". Nico taught us a new one thoughSopra la panca
La capra campa
Sotto la panca
La capra crepa
Which means of course "On top of the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies". It was a fun night out just relaxing with Kat, Julie, Ginny, Sophia, Pepperoni, Aven, Aven's friend who is studying in Germany this semester, Tom, and Amanda for a little bit! What a crowd! After lounging around with our aperitivi and wine for a bit we caved and ordered some desserts too! I got the tiramisu which literally took me to heaven! Ugh. so. good. Every bite, every spoonful was fabulous.... I became really depressed when I was nearing the end. I will be returning, I will be ordering more fantastic food! It was just a cute fun little Monday night out. Home again home again ready for bed, no field studies tomorrow, just baroque and forma urbis. I hope they fixed the coffee machine......
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