Day 70: Monday, Monday...

Monday - July 26, 2010:

Welcome back to Monday's in the Chigi Palace!

It was a typical class day with morning classes, a cooking lesson and then an afternoon class. The morning classes consisted of lectures from Francesco and Marco. Francesco spoke on "Il Bello" -- the concept of beauty and how artists interpret beauty. It was interesting but I kind of feel like it is the millionth time we have heard this subject... Although we did have a funny moment when we presented Francesco with his birthday present -- a cowboy hat! It's because we sing the Indiana Jones theme song every time he walks into class! He lovedddd it! When the theme song died out and his time-slot for teaching was over, Marco took over. Marco lectured on the town of Anzio, which we are visiting tomorrow, and it was all such cool information. I won't go into too much depth here because I will do a whole post on it tomorrow after our field trip.

We had a break so we grabbed our bags and headed up to the Supermercado. We got a little weepy when we realized this might be the last time we would go to the store... and I'm just now getting the hang of it! So sad.....

At 12:30 we had a cooking lesson with Mary Lou! On the menu for today? A smoked salmon sauce on pasta and a cake with Nutella icing for dessert! Mary Lou likes going out with a bang. It was a fun cooking lesson, but I don't know if I would do the sauce again.. I'm just not a big fan of smoked salmon -- but it was still better than your average pasta! The cake, on the other hand, was delicious. And it was Semi-Homemade (Mary Lou channeled her inner Sandra Lee) -- she got a store-bought cake, Nutella and cream. Mixed the Nutella and cream for icing. Sounds simple right? It was so easy and tasty! Why haven't we been doing this the whole summer?

Our afternoon class was with Jessica and she went over Conversational Italian... I feel a tad bit bad because I have mentally checked out. My chances of learning Italian are slim to none at this point in the summer. Mi despiace Jessica ( I'm sorry Jessica -- I did learn that).

Class was over and we had basically the whole afternoon -- what to do with ourselves?? Some slept, some Skyped, some did a new P90X video, some worked on papers we have due... it was just a random assortment of activities in the Palace this afternoon!

I wish I had a really fun story, but this is it for Monday! Hope everyone has a fabulous week and enjoys these final weeks of summer :) Ciao!