Scrivere. To write.

So today I had a makeup class for Literature. There is no school on Easter Monday, so since my Lit class is usually on Monday, we had our makeup for it this week. 

We were supposed to be working on editing our short stories that we were writing, but the guy that was supposed to come hurt his back 40 minutes before our class and couldn't move. That was strike 1. Strike 2 was one my classmates got locked inside (yes inside) his homestay apartment and couldn't leave until his mother came back. He lost his keys and wouldn't be able to close the door without them, so he was forced to stay home. So our class was kind of a bust, but we made it work. We actually had a lot of fun. We had some good discussions and read some of the writing that we had done for homework in addition to some writing we did during an exercise in class. We're all really good writers, but in different ways. It was really cool getting to hear other people's perspectives and "voices". I think once some of my stuff gets edited I may post if for you to read. Particularly the travel writing things that we had to practice. 

Before class I went to my favorite panini place and I got a salame, prosciutto crudo, lettuce, and philadelphia. (They call cream cheese 'philadelphia'.) Cream cheese on my sandwich was amazing! I am definitely going to be doing that a lot next week. It just added a completely different dimension to the sandwich. It was a similar thing the day before with the soft goat cheese. I really liked what the cheese spreads add. I literally savored every bite of this panino. I was in heaven. It wasn't until 8 hours later when I was ordering my dinner that I realized it was Friday and that I had meat on my panino. I blame the fact that I had class and so it didn't seem Friday. Oops. Although, I really think only American Catholics follow the no meat on Friday rule. 

During the break during our class the 3 of us in my class went to a gelato shop that was 2 blocks away, right by the river. Everyone has been talking about them and some of their bizarre flavors (such as black sesame). I decided to try something new other than my usual variations of chocolate. So I got the marscapone flavor and the lemon. The marscapone was really good! For those of you that have had my cannoli cupcakes or my cannoli cake that I made last year, it tasted like that! It made me want to make them again. The lemon was pretty good, but was a bit too sour, which could have been in contrast to the marscapone, but I think the lemon at de Neri was much better. 

For dinner I met up with a group of my friends and we went to a restaurant called Pizzeria I Tarocchi. They had quite the extensive list of pizzas, however we all got pasta. A friend had been recommended to try the pear filled ravioli. I had a bite of one and it was really interesting, but really good. It was a good mixture of salty and sweet. I got a pasta that had a spicy red sauce with peppers. It was really good, but definitely did have a kick to it. I thought it was a really good portion size too, and I was stuffed by the time I was done. I think I will want to go back here a few times to try some of their other dishes and/or pizzas.