Day 22

        Today started off late, being that I wanted to sleep in and try to sleep off my sinus infection. In the early afternoon, a few of us went shopping in the markets again! I wanted to buy a few more gifts, however I ended up finding a bag and splurging a little on myself… that’s basically my life story. It happens. After the market, we had a couple hours to kill before going to our cooking class. With that being said, I took a nice long nap! I can’t remember the last time I took a nap and yet alone that I decided to take one while in Italy. Anyway, around dinner time about 12 of us from our program went to a cooking class in someone’s home. It was so cute! It was an Italian woman, who taught us how to make homemade pasta. Initially, I thought it was going to be very crowded and frustrating with all 12 of us in a small space, but it turned out great! We all had such a fun time making the pasta! Between the 12 of us there was enough pasta to serve about 20 people, therefore it was the perfect amount for all of us! We made regular pasta, tricolored pasta, long noddle’s, bowtie! Just about everything! While we were making the pasta the chef (teacher) began to make two sauces. One was a basic marinara, with canned tomatoes, olive oil and garlic. The other one was a butter sauce with some seasoning that I cannot remember. Both were so good! I fully enjoyed myself tonight! After dinner, we made a stop for gelato. I decided to make the best of my gelato and I went for a cone with 3 different flavors. It was worth every penny (or euro). I will post pictures of our cooking class. Words cannot really define how good it actually was!

Cooking Class!