Update

Okay, so since i basically suck at blogging and keeping up with this lovely blog that i created and told no one about I'm going to update you on the past two weeks, and then hopefully it will be easier for me to maintain this lol. The first week was a bit hectic, the kitchen was absolute hell. Very different from new york. the chef has no mercy lol.. if it sucks, he tells you, and thats that. But i like him anyway.We are only in the kitchen two days out of the week, which kinda sucks, but whatever. The other time is spent in italian, history, wine tasting, and guest chef demos. its all awesome. The history teacher is mindnumbingly dull, and he looks and sounds like austin powers, but the material is somewhat interesting so its not a complete bore. My italian teacher speaks better English than the entire class put together (in reference to grammer and what not) so thats an interesting sich. I feel like i can really learn a lot from her but i need to just start speaking italian if i'm ever going to learn it. wine tasting is cool we taste wines from whichever two regions were studying for the week, and we compare like how the same grapes grown in different places taste differently and produce a different product. Yesterday was our first field trip. We went to piemonte. First stop was the only town in all of italy with no bar. so we couldnt get coffee, and then we went to a rice field.. or as i like to call a ricery. I did not know there was so mcuh information about freakin rice. We were there for like.. three hours. Some of it was very interesting, most of it i will never remember and most likely never use. but either way it was an experience. (pictures soon to come). We also got a like.. five course meal at the ricery. first spec with parmagiana .. pepers w a tuna sauce (not good) and another mean which i can only think of the american way of saying it.. so i'll write that.. svooyaled.. sound it out lol.. then we got an articoke tart.. and a broccoli tart.. both were decent.. the for what i thought was the main course we got asparagus risotto.. needless to say i was more than stuffed by the time that came..and what do ya know.. but there was another course of mushroom risotto.. i mean i know we were at a riceary but cummon two plates of risotto! and then we got dessert.. a rice cookie.. and an apricot tart.. (both tasted and looked like pepperidge farm lol.. but yea that was good.. it was a nice day all together. The we left the ricery.. which btw was def used as an underground concentration camp at one point.. and we wernt to a winery. Whcih was awesome. Absolutely gorgeous. its pretty self explanitory nd i'll post pics from that too.. but yea it was a great first two weeks. christina is here now and actually on her way to pick me up. we have to go to the market in parma to get our easter lamb!! i'll try to keep of top of this but the days are hectic! Buona pasqua! ttys =)