Amanda and I have taken up a new hobby...cooking! We usually stop and buy fresh groceries on our way home from school at the Padova market downtown for so cheap! Today is a great example of this...We got some lettuce, broccoli, green beans, and blood oranges for like 5 euro! I don't know how I will live at home in Seattle without blood oranges :( You should fly to Italy just to try them...so goood!!! We also went to the butchers shop for the first time. He didn't speak a word of english, but was the nicest guy and just smiled at us. We used some of our newly learned Italian but it didn't go too far. We ended up buying some Hungarian Salami (also the best salami I have ever tasted) and then some fresh buffalo mozzarella and some ricotta cheese! We are making lasagna tonight...actually Amanda is prepping it this very minute!
We bought a Basil plant to cook with...I always knew Amanda loved plants since she is a Bio major...but not to this extreme. First, last summer when I lived with her at Pikes we had a pepper plant which she named Hungry (the Hungarian Pepper). Now we have Alberto, our lovely little basil plant. The worst part is that she actually talks to it (today she asked him if he had enough water). But just one of the reasons why I love living with her, so entertaining! We are making a great pair...switching off cooking every night. I even packed her lunch for her this morning when we were running late for class (as usual!).
Last night it was my turn to cook. I was making fried potatoes and chopping up all the ingredients. I chopped open a potato and found a live worm squiggling around in it. I still feel sick thinking about it. I screamed and ran to the bathroom thinking I would get sick...then once I got over this tramatizing experience, I started trying to cook the good potatoes. After putting them in the oven for like 20 min, I went to check on them and our oven was blowing COLD AIR! So it was just a disaster. Almost 2 hours later I FINALLY had dinner ready, but I was not too happy. But to redeem myself, I did make a really good cake the other day! :)
This week we need to buckle down and actually do some school work, imagine that! We have 2 papers due next week that are like 6 pages each. And the fact that we will be gone all weekend doesn't help. Speaking of that...
WE ARE LEAVING FOR PRAGUE THURSDAY!!! I am so excited if you can't tell. We did have a minor setback with the plans...we thought we booked a train there when in fact we booked a BUS! So it will be a very long long long ride. But well worth it. At no other times in our life will we be as patient as to take a 12 hour bus ride just to see a city for 2 days. But it will be an adventure.
Also booked: Alicia Keys in Verona May 2nd; Split, CROATIA on May 6th; Cinque Terre on May 15th! We are still looking in to Southern Italy too! And we finally have all of our transportation booked for our trip after the program to Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, and Barcelona! **One more plus...on the way home from Croatia we have a really long layover in Germany, long enough to leave the airport and check it out for a couple hours! So I am really making my way around Europe. If I take any more trips it will probably just be day trips. There are a few more cities near Padova I would still love to see. Also, the weekend of Alicia Keys we may stay a night at Lago di Garda. Our old Italian instructor Lucca told us that here we will find "more clubs than there are fishies in the sea!" so sounds like it would be fun! :)
Ciao for now! I'll keep writing....hopefully sooner than later!
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