Snow and more food

Mini update! Things are going well here in Bologna. Everyone is having a difficult time choosing classes...in case you missed this info: we're still in orientation, which lasts a whole 4 weeks, taking language and history classes offered by the Brown program in cooperation with the Univ. of Bologna. Real university classes don't start until early February, with the exact dates depending on the department.

So Italy is a balmy Mediterranean paradise, right? WRONG:



This is the first snow, and it makes my 2+ hours of walking per day kind of unpleasant, but it's an interesting change. It's kind of melting by now though. Another update that I'd like to post is the lovely dinner that Christina and I made for our guests: two Brown in Bologna friends Vinny and Jessica, and Christina's language partner Luca and his friend Giuseppe. Language partners are the people that Brown pays to be our friends and speak Italian to us. Some of them are really awesome and bring their American buddies to parties and such. My language partner is also named Luca, as is approximately 90% of the male population of Bologna, as it turns out. So anyway, our dinner was as follows, with pics of course:

Primo piatto - tagliatelle alla pink vodka sauce
Secondo piatto - breaded chicken cutlets with scalloped potatoes
Dolce - A bunch of pastries provided by Luca

YUM

From left to right: Vinny, Giuseppe, Christina, Luca, Jessica. I am taking the picture.