After a long semester of the dark room I finally was able to show off some of my photos. Tonight was the Photo show for all the photo students...It was very fun and a bunch of people showed up...Photo was a lot harder then I thought...I have a lot more appreciation for the time and effort that goes into hand developing...enjoy. [View Full Entry]

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November just wouldn't be the same with out Thanksgiving, and even though I know I will have a make-up thanksgiving I helped throw one of my own. It ended up being amazing and THANK YOU Gail for you carrot recipe. Everyone loved them, and 2 people who hated carrots wanted the recipe and more. lol So we had no actual bird cause they don't sell turkeys in Italy, along with cranberry sauce, so Kara got turkey breasts instead and made her famous mashed potatoes. Everything went amazing and I have never eaten so much in my life...I was full all weekend [View Full Entry]

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So I wanted to have a dinner party and I had the fixings to make MEATBALLS! I know spaghetti and meatballs are not really Italian but that doesn’t stop them from being AMAZING! Hanna, Paige and Oreli came over and the deliciousness began! Non of us made meat balls before, but thanks mom for relaying meatball cooking over the phone...I think it is hilarious you and I are cooking and shopping thousands of miles away...So I had pics from this dinner so I thought I would share...Ciao...Buon appetite!...Afterwards we watched ratatouille...what a cute movie! [View Full Entry]

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So I have been taking this archeology class which has its interesting parts including this field trip. The whole class was bused over to Tarquinia, a small Umbrian town with and site of Etruscan tombs. The Etruscans were one of the first societies that settled in the boot of Italy in around 500 BC! Wow...very long time ago...Perugia and Orvieto are the two Umbrian modern Cities that were apart of the 12 Etruscan cities back in the day. I have learned ALOT about the Etruscans so I won't bore you with all the details...it is kind of ironic since there is [View Full Entry]

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This week has been a bunch of Zach adventures…tonight was Pizza Workshop! I was way excited…I went to La Pizza Musica and a bunch of us crowded around the pizza workspace…They let us learn the top secret techniques of making an amazing brick oven pizza…I will think about sharing the secret tricks…I was amazed cause it takes less then 2 min to make a pizza in a 700 degree fiery oven…mmmmmmm the melty goodness…I was sad to find out that they don’t throw the dough in the air and it is just an American thing although the pizza was amazing&hell [View Full Entry]

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I went to the most amazing olive picking adventure with Zach and a few other students. We took a short bus to the Umbrian countryside and walked down a dirt road all the way to this beautiful olive orchard. We hiked up the hills and got to see the most beautiful view of the countryside. Zach explained the ins and outs of olives, olive harvesting, and the process of manufacturing olive oil. We picked olives off one tree although from a lack of rain this year the olives were sparse on most of the trees…on the property there was a huge [View Full Entry]

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So randomly Matt, Krystoph and I all hoped on a train on Friday to go to Assisi. It was pretty, I would consider it a more touristy Perugia. In Assisi there is the 2nd most popular church, the Church of St. Francis, number one being the church of St. Peter in Rome. A bunch of nuns, priests, and other religious people make their pilgrimages here to pay homage to the mighty St. Francis. He seems like he was a pretty cool guy. His church is massive, which is ironic to contrast it towards his humble life of poverty. We walked all [View Full Entry]

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So for all those who were wondering, I am ok. To give you a brief summery, Perugia is considered a college town, similar to the states. There is the Perugian University for Italian students, the small Umbra abroad Institute where I am studying, and the Stranieri (meaning foreigners) which mainly consists of classes to learn Italian. The girl who was killed, Meredith Kercher, went to the Stranieri (University for Foreigners). I did not know her personally although I know of one of the suspects, Mr. Lumumba, who works at a pub here in Perugia. There are plenty of people in the [View Full Entry]

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Finally it is Thursday and a bunch of my friends and I went out to Shamrocks to forget our homework. [View Full Entry]

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So the weekend after Halloween there is a fair of the dead. It was down by the stadium and it was fun to see. The rides and games were way over priced, but I guess that is a similarity between fairs in the States and ones here in Italy. There was one ride that spun in a circle and they had some random guy stand in the middle with out any restraints! He was just trying to keep his balance. Oh man these Italians are crazy...after seeing that I had little desire to go on any of the other rides. There [View Full Entry]

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