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!

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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!!