So far this week

Monday was a boring day, I pretty much read the entire day because I had to finish "Homo Faber" for my literature class the next day. This proved to be a difficult challenge due to the beautiful weather. The last thing that I wanted to be doing was inside reading, but it had to be done. I also walked over to Hotel River to check out the room my dad is staying in for him. It is beautiful and very close to my apt. Tuesday I had class all day from 9am- 8:30pm. Fashion Marketing, Italian, Literature and then my food class. In my food class we made gnocchi! We boiled potatoes and then once they were soft you squish them through a press you then mix it with an egg, flour and some cheese. You roll the dough out and cut it into little chunks, then you throw them in water and wait for them to float. The sauce was- black cabbage, oil oil, chopped tomatoes, salt and some garlic. We put that in a pot and let it reduce. We also cooked some fresh sausage with red wine and olive oil then combined to the two and put it over the gnocchi, it came out great and I am going to try to make it when I get home. After class I finally booked some trips that I will be going on later. On April 10th -13 I will be going to Amsterdam to visit my friend Janne who lives there. She studied abroad in America at my school in the fall and I became good friends with her. I am excited to see her in her own environment, and to have her take us around b/c I have no idea how to speak dutch. on April 16-19 I am going to the Amalphi coast and capri and on April 30-May 4 I will be going to Greece! April is going to be a very busy month, my dad and sharon are also visiting the first week of April. Wednesday I went to class, went for a run and went to this new bar called Rex Cafe. The atmosphere was great.We also went to the Lions Pub where everyone was drinking and watching a soccer game on the T.V soccer is so big here they get so into it. Thursday I went to Italian and after Italian we met 5 of our friends from Champlain who are on their spring break. They are all studying in Dublin, Ireland and came to visit on there break. It was so weird to be with them in Italy, I never though it would happen. What is even weirder is that they are going to be in Barcelona the same time we are and Amsterdam and we didn't even plan it! We took them around to the sights, it was funny to wait for them to take pictures, I felt like a local (which I am clearly not) but I didn't feel like a tourist! wooooo! We went to Tijuanas obviously (it was thursday) ordered pitchers of margaritas for the 12 of us to share and had a good time. After dinner we went to The lions pub and twice, it was a good night. Our friends are here till Sunday so we will have to show them a good time.