Ookay, what have I been up to?
Well this was the first real week of classes and after much switching, stressing and sampling, I picked a courseload that is interesting, challenging and oddly coherent. Instead of post-modern fiction I am taking Sociology of the Arts, upon the recommendation of an advisor who saw my interest in the food world and thought this would be a pertinent class. When I went to class today I got extremely excited as I saw the syllabus included explorations of Duchamp and etc. My professor is an old(er) italian lady who falls asleep in the middle of lectures but I loved that she passed out a questionnaire about us, asking about our experience in art, our interest in the class, what we want to do with our lives (as if we know!) and etc. she seems to have a serious passion which I truly appreciate.
My Italian class is a bit of a let down since my professor speaks mostly in English and the students in the class (primarily girls) refuse to speak italian, even when they ask questions about what italian words and phrases mean! Its frusterating but my roomates are I are very committed to learning italian so i speak only italian with people around here (even when they try to speak english with me) and my roomates and I run around reading signs and naming everything in italian!
My topics class is cosi cosi. it seems really interesting and the professor is hysterical. it makes a lot of jokes that arent funny which makes them extremely funny. but in all honesty, i do think its going to be interesting. it is a class based around Leftist politics and what it truly means to be left both in history and in contemporary society.
MY painting class is going to be REALLY interesting! mostly because I am a terrible painter! And my professor is a professional painter who doesnt believe in giving As and thinks grading is too inflated (im not sure i disagree....) anyway, after spending 140 Euro at the art store I'm pretty committed! But if there is anywhere to be bad at art...its Florence!
So we went the market the other day, it was WONDERFUL! There were dead chickens with their heads attached and fresh sausage and liver and cuori (hearts) IT was wonderful!
Tonight I cooked for my roomates, fresh tortellini from the market with porcini mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, onions, garlic, and chicken. It actually came out really good considering the only things in my spice cabinet were salt, pepe, and dried basil. a little porcini/balsamic reduction and voila! (er, brava?) My roomates now want to cook every night together. Which is even better since I found a copy of that out of print cookbook that I was researching before I left - Culinaria Italia! I bought it immediately and have been reading it all night! I do have to get back to organizing my school books here though! It takes forever to get things since all of the stores are specialty so school supplies are scattered around the city. I am going to try to make the Uffizi tomorrow and Saturday I am going to Lucca so I will try to post after that! I miss everybody! ciao! baci!
It wont let me post pictures here so I will do my best to try to add them later!
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