arrivederci america: cooking and churches

I have a lot to fill you in on! The week before Spring Break we had a chef come and give us a cooking lesson which was so fun. But don't expect me to cook any of this because I can hardly remember. ha! Chef Francesco cooked pasta with clams (which I really liked!), pork with a red wine sauce and potatoes, and chocolate molten cake (of course my favorite!) It was so delicious and a nice change from my plain pasta I always cook!

I want to be able to cut food without looking too!

Me and my sweet Dresh

Our molten cake batter...You all know I wanted to stick my finger in it!

Our pasta with clams!

Tuesday we went to Rome to have a personal tour of Baroque style churches with our cutest professor, Francesco. While it was very interesting and beautiful, it was the windiest (I'm not too sure if that's word ha!) and coldest day we've had. So we were all pretty miserable and cold! We also went to the Borghese museum which has a lot of Bernini's sculptures. Bernini was a sculptural genius. The detail of his work is unreal and the people look just like real life. I highly recommend the Borghese museum which also has a beautiful garden.

Look at the Pope just chilling in the middle...

Supposedly St. Peter's chains

Wednesday we had class and then had a hip hop teacher come to the palace to teach a class! It was so fun and she even taught us some break dancing. Now I have some new moves for Sky Bar in Auburn! It was also Jessica's birthday, so we made cupcakes and a card for her 22nd! (even though she keeps telling everyone it's her 20th)

Thursday was a very interesting day. We started out with rain, which is never fun at 7 in the morning. It was planned to go to this town which is on decaying and you have to go up a bridge to get to it. Well when we hit snow, this plan got cancelled. And I mean a lot of snow. We were all in shock. So we ended up going to a close town called Orvieto. We went to St. Patrick's well which is like a DNA strand and you have to go down one set of staircases and up another. This was a month's workout for me. I had to take about 4 breaks on the way up! ha! But it was a cute town and had a beautiful duomo (church). We also had a wonderful lunch there - gnocchi (potato pasta dish) with mozzarella and pesto. So yummy!

The never ending well...