So I've finally caught you all up on my Florence adventures but I've been busy here in Rome since we got back also. I'll just do a quick recap of life since Saturday night as a study break, then back to the books.
Saturday after everyone had gone to their respective apartments the boys came back to our place cause we just weren't ready for the fun to be over! It's sad that the entire purpose of the hang out was to walk to the burger place under the arches between the boys place and St. Peter's. After a few card games and stories shared with Sophia and Ginny we all walked to the halfway point between our apartments to the most amazing burger place! It's just a little hole in the wall where we always see young people eating burgers late at night, there's no seating and the burgers are the size of two American burgers. I don't know what goes into "salsa rossa" but I want to bring it back to the states! Yum! After that Sophia Julie Peppers and I walked to St. Peter's at night because it was so nice out and we wanted to stretch our legs.
Sunday was a very relaxing day where we got to all sleep in and recover from our busy weekend. I'm so glad we decided to come home on Saturday and leave Sunday for unpacking, unwinding, and looking at that stack of books in the corner we should be studying. Julie and Sophia went for a feast/adventure in the Jewish Ghetto (there are places to go for groceries and food on Sundays!) and came back stuffed to the gills but so very happy. I'm eager to go see what all the fuss is about in the near future. Gatto was feeling ambitious and wanted to prepare some lasagna for everyone for dinner. Please note this woman is an amazing cook and we all worship her. I hope she never washes a dish while she's here. Since Kat was so excited for her lasagna I got to thinking and decided that the sunny crisp fall day was perfect for an apple pie. Problems: no pie crusts, no pie tins, no brown sugar, and no baking skills. All minor problems. I tried to make a graham cracker crust, nope no graham crackers in Italy. So I ended up taking my favorite Panne cookies and crushing them up, putting them in a square tin we had and then sort of guessing at and combining recipes for the sugary goodness that gets drizzled over the layer of sliced granny smith apples. Popped it in the oven which made the apartment smell so cozy, and we all enjoyed it for dessert. Not too shabby. I think I will be recreating this dish (but of a larger size) for our Fall Break potluck on Thursday (yikes! tomorrow!).
Dinner was fantastic with Gatto's main course and my dessert, a little wine, and then Pepperoni, Julie, and I "studied" for our Baroque midterm. There might have been 20 minutes of actual review before skype, imgur, gmail, and a host of internet distractions broke through. So 20 minutes of studying with 2 and a half hours of "studying". At least we had fun!
Baroque midterm came and went. I only woke up a few minutes earlier than normal to double check some dates before heading out to class. I think it went well. I had my hour Forma Urbis class afterwards which was all review, I had done some preliminary studying between the exam and class so thankfully when he asked for questions I had a couple. Feeling ok but need to study more. I came home and studied studied studied!
Today I woke up for my Renaissance midterm which I destroyed! About 2/3rds of the works are located in Florence and I saw them up close in person! It's much easier to remember locations when you have seen them in that church or that gallery or just a block away from my hostel and walked by them every day! Tomorrow holds the greatest challenge for me: Conservation followed by Forma Urbis! It'll be over by 2pm so I hope I'm prepared. Then celebration potluck! hooray!
Kat and I leave on Friday at noon for our romantic couples retreat to Dublin (where there will be a few IES students at the same time!), Edinburgh (Hi Mere!!!!), and Nice before returning to Rome for the weekend before school picks back up.
For good luck Italians say "Nella bocca al lupo!" and the response is "Crepi (il lupo)!" meaning "in the mouth of the wolf" and "may the wolf die"
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