First School Week...Check!

WooHoo!!! I survived my first full week of school!! I really enjoy all of them! Today I had my Wine and Culture class. It was really awesome. The professor is so adorable (i feel like i say that about all the people here, but it's true!). He kept saying how nervous and emotional he was cause it was the first day of class. He is excited that we are a big class (8 people...yeah, real big -__-) because he has a higher budget for the wines that we taste in class so he can get us the expensive wines! (Score!) We have a few field trips planned for wineries and our first one is on Feb 16th I believe, so that should be fun! We will learn where different types of wines come from and which areas make what and the history and how to taste them and tell what they are made of and the proper etiquette. It will be really interesting! We will be tasting up to 4 wines every class too! Today though, we just went through the course material and began our first lesson on history and he gave us a full glass (not a taste, but a full glass) of "special wine" which means it is bubbly. It was soooooo good! It was a white wine and a tad salty, but I am not a wine drinker at all, but this was so good! I think I don't like wine because I have only had the cheap kind (you can get wine here for 0.79 euro!!) but the kind we had tonight was more expensive and it was delicious! I might be a wine girl by the time this class is over with! There are 4 other people in my wine class that are also in the cooking class with me so I think they mesh well together too. I am very excited for the rest of the semester. Before I had the class today I was considering dropping the wine class because then I wouldnt have class on Thursdays either which would mean the only days I would go to school would be Monday and Wednesday but I think this class will be way too much fun to drop! For our class materials we got this cardboard suitcase type box filled with 3 wine glasses for us! So cute! I love it!
The rest of the day, before and after class I spent at the apartment doing homework. I did take a break for some gelato with a few friends (Abby, Connor, and Brian) and this time I got half chocolate and half nutella/cream. It was so yummy!! Looooove the gelato! I never ever crave chocolate at home and I feel like that is all I'm craving here! I eat the chocolate gelato, nutella, and coco puffs! Its so weird, this is not like me at all! The night was spent with 2 of my roommates, Caroline and Sara. We just hung out in the kitchen and acted silly all night. We listened to music and made funny videos and took silly pictures on the webcam...stuff that I do back home with friends so it was nice to do that here too. We had a lot of fun...didn't spend money, didn't drink, didn't go out, and it was an absolute blast! They are so funny to hang out with. Our other roommate Jenny was out with a few other people to go meet up with some nuns. Yes, nuns. She went to church the other day and met them and a few of them are American so they wanted to get together and I guess she is having a good time with them because it is after midnight and she still isn't back yet! It was a very chill day, but it was a lot of fun!

Tomorrow we were supposed to go to the city of Viterbo where they have a small mall and a store similar to Wal-Mart but Italy is having record low temperatures and its gonna snow all day tomorrow. It hasn't snowed in Tuscania in like 20 years or something they said. So naturally, it needs to snow when I'm here. That's okay though, usually Tuscania gets snow only in the morning and it melts by noon because we are right next to the beach and it tends to be a little warmer here, but all of the surrounding cities get feet of snow! The schools are all canceled for tomorrow already in all the towns. Everything shuts down pretty much when it snows I guess. Not like at home at all! But since we are not going to Viterbo at 8AM anymore we are sleeping til 10 then going to the local market for cheap produce and hopefully I can buy a pair of boots there. We will see! I also need to figure out the ATM situation tomorrow. I guess the english language one is broken so I will have to bring Sara with me to help with the Italian language one! It shall be interesting that's for sure! Saturday will be a busy day though. We might try to go to Viterbo on our own on Saturday then the volleyball game then maybe a Disco Tech that night. Haven't really decided yet. There is a group of us that are trying to go to Greece on my birthday weekend in March which would be so amazing!!! Birthday in Greece?! yesssss please!! Then we were thinking of Dublin, Ireland for spring break or maybe London. Not sure yet, still gotta work out the details. I am very excited either way though! Ahhh! What a good, chill day! :)

Until next time...Ciao!