All three of these days were similar since classes started
on Monday the 6th. It’s interesting to be full-time student while in
Rome, having the normal school semester mentality that I always have something
I should be doing, but trying to just enjoy the moment. It’s difficult to
balance, but it helps that one of my classes in on site.
Ancient Rome and Its Monuments meets 9:30-11:30 Mon-Thurs.
The class meets different places every day, all over a certain area of the city
where most of the ancient monuments are.
Wednesday, I took an Italian cooking class with many other
JCU students. We went to a local restaurant where they taught us how to make
several foods. We had the option of learning how to make pasta or everything
else. I chose pasta, because I know that a lot of things are pretty easy to
follow a recipe, but pasta is a whole technique! The process of making
fettucine was very fun and interesting. You make the dough out of flower and
eggs, flatten it with a pasta crank, and then you put it across a stringed
cooking mechanism called a chitarra, like guitar. (It’s really more like a
dulcimer.) This was so new and different. This style of pasta making –alla
chittara – is also quite rare, but considered to be the best! I plan on
purchasing one of these tools to make pasta at home.
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