the bora helped to push me across the sidewalk a few days ago!!
:O :-O :-o
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
UDINE
sorry its been awhile since an update fam.. ive not really been doing much. and now i am fairly sick. i went to buy medicine today and then i accidently threw it away unused and im very mad at myself for this.. so tomorrow ill go back to buy more..
also yesterday i ate grapes that are the type of grapes they make wine into because i went into Udine, the region just north of trieste. its a really pretty little wine making towns just below the alps in some other mountains. the mountains were SOooooooOO pretty. i had a delicious dinner of gnocchi, frecca (sp?)(whichis like hashbrowns in a away with cheese), some sort of quiche thing, wine from the region, and they have this other drink its like a shot they call grappa but you sip on it.. so i tried it but it was really gross to me so i didnt have it.
anyways back to the grapes... wine grapes are REALLY REALLY DELICIOUS. they are like a cross between grapes and muscadines and the inside mushes out in one slimey piece and they are so so so good i could eat them all day.
anyways .. i ahvent posted a picture in awhile so here is a picutre or two of the people ive been hanging out with, some erasmus (exchange students) from portugal. i like them lots they are really nice really crazy and really fun like people im used to back home instead of these other people ive been around that i have found a little bland.
also yesterday i ate grapes that are the type of grapes they make wine into because i went into Udine, the region just north of trieste. its a really pretty little wine making towns just below the alps in some other mountains. the mountains were SOooooooOO pretty. i had a delicious dinner of gnocchi, frecca (sp?)(whichis like hashbrowns in a away with cheese), some sort of quiche thing, wine from the region, and they have this other drink its like a shot they call grappa but you sip on it.. so i tried it but it was really gross to me so i didnt have it.
anyways back to the grapes... wine grapes are REALLY REALLY DELICIOUS. they are like a cross between grapes and muscadines and the inside mushes out in one slimey piece and they are so so so good i could eat them all day.
anyways .. i ahvent posted a picture in awhile so here is a picutre or two of the people ive been hanging out with, some erasmus (exchange students) from portugal. i like them lots they are really nice really crazy and really fun like people im used to back home instead of these other people ive been around that i have found a little bland.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
first day of classes
so today i went to my first class. i actually had three today but could only go to one because during the other two i had to go to an italian placement exam. i think i did alright on this.
anyways about my first class it was quite an experience.. !
me and my friend manu signed up for the same class because it interested us both, it was the class filosofia della cultura (philosophy of culture..obviously?)
so we go to the room and there is NO ONE. class is posted to start at 9 the light is off its a few minutes after nine and no students are around. finally we knock on the prof's office door and go in. he said just wait a few more minutes and we will start
so then we wait and the professor comes and we go inside. still it is only me and manu. the classroom is small with a round table for socrates style teaching (i think?)
the teacher is a rather small italian man wearing trendy clothes- fitted jeans, asics shoes (very popular here), and a collared polo shirt with the collar POPPED. he spoke with us very casually and it ended up being only me and manu so for my first class i was lucky to be able to have things clarified and he spoke more slowly for us. the class was off to a pretty good start i found it interesting although some things were a little uclear i generally understood everything since he was going slow and is italian!
tomorrow i will have more classes to show for!
anyways about my first class it was quite an experience.. !
me and my friend manu signed up for the same class because it interested us both, it was the class filosofia della cultura (philosophy of culture..obviously?)
so we go to the room and there is NO ONE. class is posted to start at 9 the light is off its a few minutes after nine and no students are around. finally we knock on the prof's office door and go in. he said just wait a few more minutes and we will start
so then we wait and the professor comes and we go inside. still it is only me and manu. the classroom is small with a round table for socrates style teaching (i think?)
the teacher is a rather small italian man wearing trendy clothes- fitted jeans, asics shoes (very popular here), and a collared polo shirt with the collar POPPED. he spoke with us very casually and it ended up being only me and manu so for my first class i was lucky to be able to have things clarified and he spoke more slowly for us. the class was off to a pretty good start i found it interesting although some things were a little uclear i generally understood everything since he was going slow and is italian!
tomorrow i will have more classes to show for!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
cucinando!
ok so now i will explain to the best of my memory the pasta and pesto recipe
for the pasta:
whatever pasta you use, boil the water first. then once to a boil put the pasta in for about 8 minutes. it shouldn't be mushy but shouldn't be hard. you can check with some pastas by cutting it in half and looking if the center is kind of white while the outside is yellowish. also its important to stir because this way the pasta won't stick together to each other and have hard parts between two pieces of pasta.
now for the pesto:
take lots of fresh basil leaves (parents this could be from the garden since there is so much!)
oil
pine nuts
garlic
blend to a good consistency.. i dont know how to describe the consistency.
then put in bowl and put in pasta and mix
yumyum!
for the pasta:
whatever pasta you use, boil the water first. then once to a boil put the pasta in for about 8 minutes. it shouldn't be mushy but shouldn't be hard. you can check with some pastas by cutting it in half and looking if the center is kind of white while the outside is yellowish. also its important to stir because this way the pasta won't stick together to each other and have hard parts between two pieces of pasta.
now for the pesto:
take lots of fresh basil leaves (parents this could be from the garden since there is so much!)
oil
pine nuts
garlic
blend to a good consistency.. i dont know how to describe the consistency.
then put in bowl and put in pasta and mix
yumyum!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
new things ive learned
hello family!
so i wanted to share some things i didn't know that i learned and thought were interesting.
ok so here we go..:
1) parmiggiano and PARMASEAN are different. I thought it was just the american way of saying parmiggiano but apparently since its like fake parmiggiano they cant legally call it parmaggiano so its parmasean! voila!
2) ive learned a process to drinking wine that is apparently more correct
-look at the color with a white napkin behind
-make comments on color
-swirl wine and then stick nose in and smell wine
-to smell you must exhale just a little into the glass then inhale
-make comments on smell (i.e. flowers grapes etc.)
-swirl and look at the arches made on the side of the glass (this is the part i thought was interesting) depending on how big the arches is how much alcohol content the wine has
-lastly sip with some air
3) ive learned how to properly cook pasta and make homemade pesto sauce
ok ciao ciao famiglia!
so i wanted to share some things i didn't know that i learned and thought were interesting.
ok so here we go..:
1) parmiggiano and PARMASEAN are different. I thought it was just the american way of saying parmiggiano but apparently since its like fake parmiggiano they cant legally call it parmaggiano so its parmasean! voila!
2) ive learned a process to drinking wine that is apparently more correct
-look at the color with a white napkin behind
-make comments on color
-swirl wine and then stick nose in and smell wine
-to smell you must exhale just a little into the glass then inhale
-make comments on smell (i.e. flowers grapes etc.)
-swirl and look at the arches made on the side of the glass (this is the part i thought was interesting) depending on how big the arches is how much alcohol content the wine has
-lastly sip with some air
3) ive learned how to properly cook pasta and make homemade pesto sauce
ok ciao ciao famiglia!
Monday, September 27, 2010
ancora!
piazza d'unita by night- the main piazza in centro
the really weird unisex bathrooms that i really really dont like
i went to my first casino! and my first time in slovenia!
i won 20 euro at first then lost the 20 and came out even :)
a food culture festival on the streets in centro... very crowded
my roommie and friend manu the other two isep students outside the casino
Thursday, September 23, 2010
VIDEO- Caparezza
caparezza
this is an italian rapper that a friend told me about.. its one of the few actually good italian rappers haha
its got an interesting sound to it i thought dad might like particularily.. the guy is pretty intense!
another italian song
this is also an italian song.. its extremely popular.. i have now read its not an italian artist
this is an italian rapper that a friend told me about.. its one of the few actually good italian rappers haha
its got an interesting sound to it i thought dad might like particularily.. the guy is pretty intense!
another italian song
this is also an italian song.. its extremely popular.. i have now read its not an italian artist
trieste descriptionsss
ok now that i am into this i am feeling more up to writing about what its like here sooo:
so trieste is a very small but dense city. its not super old ruins like in rome, but it has a few things and for the most part the architecture is really visually pleasing. everyone in the city is VERY VERY nice. always extremely helpful when looking for directions or anything. its much like a small town in the way that works. its also mostly older people and then college students because of the university.
there is one street known as viale (settembre) which is a street many university students go to at night for bars and i think there might be a discotec there from what ive heard.
shopping is located throughout the city...everywhere.. it makes it difficult because theres so much of it spread out everywhere.
also trieste is a small city on the mountain downwards to the seaside. this means everything in trieste is uphill downhill stair stair stairssss so many stairs all the time. theres not quite as many little villa parks as i would like but theres a couple.
the main piazza, piazza d'unita is located in downtown on the seaside near the dock going out in the sea. there is lots of bars and shopping and gelato and tourists here. if you go further into the city there is more of these things located and then as you go further up you finally reach the university. from the seaside to the university it may be something like an hour walk.
the dorm im living in is alot of non italian students. it seems that most of the real italian students live in apartments throughout the city (which all i have seen are actually really nice apartments!! cheap too in certain parts!)
we have met alot of albanians that live here in the building, so understanding through accents of everyone is extremely difficult for me. downstairs we have a gameroom with ping pong and FOOSBALL!
okk that is all for now!
so trieste is a very small but dense city. its not super old ruins like in rome, but it has a few things and for the most part the architecture is really visually pleasing. everyone in the city is VERY VERY nice. always extremely helpful when looking for directions or anything. its much like a small town in the way that works. its also mostly older people and then college students because of the university.
there is one street known as viale (settembre) which is a street many university students go to at night for bars and i think there might be a discotec there from what ive heard.
shopping is located throughout the city...everywhere.. it makes it difficult because theres so much of it spread out everywhere.
also trieste is a small city on the mountain downwards to the seaside. this means everything in trieste is uphill downhill stair stair stairssss so many stairs all the time. theres not quite as many little villa parks as i would like but theres a couple.
the main piazza, piazza d'unita is located in downtown on the seaside near the dock going out in the sea. there is lots of bars and shopping and gelato and tourists here. if you go further into the city there is more of these things located and then as you go further up you finally reach the university. from the seaside to the university it may be something like an hour walk.
the dorm im living in is alot of non italian students. it seems that most of the real italian students live in apartments throughout the city (which all i have seen are actually really nice apartments!! cheap too in certain parts!)
we have met alot of albanians that live here in the building, so understanding through accents of everyone is extremely difficult for me. downstairs we have a gameroom with ping pong and FOOSBALL!
okk that is all for now!
Stolen pictures i did not take!
me (obviously) on that walk on top of Opicina
first few days.. down in centro (how you say downtown) there is like a sea dock people go out and sit in the sun and relax. usually there is someone playing guitar or something so we came here with some food. its the three of us in previous pictures plus two albanese students named elton and arber
all these rest are typical pictures or trieste its a very nice little town, very much a city but also very small dense adn walkable! The bus takes you everywhere as well for when you dont feel like having hurting feet.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
pictureees
trieste!
Looking over the sea on top of Opicina
Opicina is a mountain with a walking path of i think three miles and then at the end of it there are lots of rocks that people go rock climbing on. Yesterday i went rock climbing cause a friend goes like everyday and has some of the gear so i stayed low and tried it out
Antonella and the one other ISEP student also form argentina, Manu
Tram ride up the mountain Opicina
Me and My argentine roommate, Antonella!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
TRIESTE- I PRIMI GIORNI
This is an old roman theatre we came across when trying to get the necessary permesso di soggiorno.
I am tired and will try to write more later!!
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