Ciao! Parlo un po Italiano!!! Oggi fa freddo. In la casa, ho freddo. Mi piace correre. Sempre cucino la cena, di solito a 19:00. Stasera, faccio il compiti, cucino il cibo e manjo. Mi piace Firenze!!!! Translation: Hi! I speak a little Italian! Today, it's cold. In the house, I'm still cold. I love to run. I always cook dinner, usually around 7pm. Tonight, I do my homework, cook food and eat! I love Florence!!! I'm still working on learning common phras...

Today I made the best meal I've ever cooked for myself: I made spaghetti alla carbonara! It is a spaghetti dish, typical of Rome, with an egg and cheese sauce, topped with bacon bits that have been browned in garlic and olive oil. It was so good, I've cooked it for two meals! Definitly a dish I'm going to keep making once back in California. The other big news of the day is that I fell down on my way to the kitchen this morning. I was just walking across the t...

Every century has kept it's place in Rome. Everywhere I walked (and I walked to every part of Rome, within the walls that is) there are buildings from before Christ, the times of Caesar, Medieval buildings, Renaissance buildings, and modern ones. The edifices are constructed on top of and around existing buildings. So sometimes the front of a building is from the 2 Century AD, yet the back is from the last 20years. My favorite thing in Rome, without a doubt,...

I've been thinking about all the yummy things I've been eating in Italy. It then occurred to me that I should write down what I eat on a random day. So this is not a normal blog entry, but rather a "food diary," if you will: Breakfast: oatmeal, black tea, green grapes Lunch: whole wheat bread, salami, mozzarella cheese grilled (with a bit of olive oil), and lettuce Snack: brie cheese, bundnerfleisch (a meat very close to the actual thing!)...

Venice was wonderful, but not what I was expecting. The Venice I was imagining does exist, but just in the backroads, away from the main square. I pictured narrow canals with small bridges over them, families going to the store, old couples walking over bridges together. Instead I saw Le Carnival: a huge event where 150,000 people come to the Island of Venice for Saturday and Sunday dressed up in costumes and wearing masks. There are events all through the ni...