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Sunday, the 26th of October was the last day of the Perugia Chocolate Festival. Jackie called and told me that she and two of her friends were coming to Perugia. We woke up late, being so exhausted from traveling the day before. I met her, josh, and April at the train station around 2 after doing some homework, of course. The center was crowded! It took 20 minutes to get through, when it normally takes 5. Unbelievable. We took the mini metro back, which they got a kick out of. They stopped by and saw my apartment, and then we roughed through the crowd around the chocolate festival. Streets and streets with huts of chocolate vendors. A Farinella/Farulla’s dream. We got Milka crowns from the Milka barn stand, and tried any free sample we could find. Lindt mousse chocolate, 2 shots of chocolate liquor, chocolate Debbie-like cakes, torrone, rice cakes. We bought hot chocolate, chocolate cotton candy, churros with nutella, chocolate with hot peppers. They displayed chocolate batteries, cards, birth control, eggs, the works, it was amazing to see. They left around 5. I made a healthy dinner after all that chocolate, did some homework and went to bed.
Monday –class. So excited to be back. Went to the little coop to get some groceries, seeing as I had none, and made some lunch. Then I went to class. Photography is 3 hours long, it just drains my Mondays. That night, we all decided around 11 that we should go out. We first went to La Tana, then to Merlin, and Domus for maybe 2 minutes. We came back in pairs at different hours…it was quite a funny night, especially because we all originally didn’t want to go out.
Tuesday, I took a nap after Italian class…a much needed nap, had lunch, did some homework, maybe went to morlacchi, and went to my other 2 classes. Tuesday night, Kelley cooked for fam night. She made ratatouille and boxed cordon bleus. It was good to eat lots of veggies. We took it easy that night and watched love actually and I ate gelato. Mmm.
Wednesday, I went to the grocery store again Katy, Kelley and I bought stuff for our Halloween costumes…seeing as Christianity was cancelled so I only had class from 9-10am. Amazing. Prob ate some lunch. A few days earlier, we had bought tickets to the Florence vs. Inter Milan game, all of us but Carson, and we were PUMPED to go, pumped. So we booked a hostel in Florence, packed up, and headed out after everyone got out of class. We got to the hostel, dropped our stuff and headed to the game. The buses were packed, packed. There were stands outside the stadium where we got sausage and pepper sandwiches and cokes, amazing, simply amazing. We didn’t have the actual tickets because it was such short notice, so we brought the conformation email to the booth. They had us walk AROUND the stadium, where we waited in line to find out that we could not get it. That sucked, we paid for tickets, got all the way there, outside the stadium with all the noise and cheering, to an amazing game, to hear it from the outside. So we went to a bar and watched it on tv with a beer.
Thursday morning we woke up at 5:30 to catch the train back to Perugia in time for Italian class. That sentence pretty much speaks for itself. After class, I took a much needed nap. Ate lunch, did some homework, maybe took a walk or got coffee. At night, Mauro came over and cooked us all dinner! He wouldn’t let us do a thing! He made us an apertivo of bruschetta, pecorino with jam, and bread rings flavored with fennel. For dinner he made two kinds of pasta. He made gnocchi with sage and thin macaroni with a pesto sauce. Zach’s right, he is a really good cook. We told him he needed to come to one of our fam nights so that we could return the favor. He has chosen to come for Mexican night. The next night was Halloween, so we decided to stay in just relaxing.
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