Basilica di Santa Croce

Some pictures and information that I learned in my Intro to Renaissance Art class Thursday about the Church:

The church is a Gothic style.

My Classes

After my second week of classes, I am finally going to discuss each of them for you in more detail. The 5 courses I am taking this semester are: Current Trends in Italian Cuisine, Workplace Psychology: Building Effective Managers, Italian Language Advanced I, Basic Sewing Techniques, and Introduction to Renaissance Art (in Italian). Very different from my usual engineering course load, but I enjoy working with a different part of my brain and taking a little break from math and science.

First Cooking Class

Quick post since I haven't had internet access in my room for the past few days and I need to go to bed soon for my 8am class.

I just wanted to mention that I put up 4 new recipes that we made in class on Monday. That's right, we made 4 dishes and got to enjoy them all :) We split up into 4 groups and I helped make the Scaloppine con nocciole, which was super easy and delicious! The sauce was incredible. We also made Linguine spinaci, fagiolini e caffè, which was pasta with coffee in the water. It was interesting...it smelled strongly of coffee, but didn't have a particularly flavorful taste. We made amazing little mashed potato balls, with parsley and bread crumbs on top called Palline di patate gratinate. For dessert, we had a simple Ricotta al cacao con coulis di frutta, ricotta cheese with berries...yum!

Tomorrow I have my first Basic Sewing Techniques class (which I just switched into last week and so missed the first class). After that, I will write more about each of my classes this semester.

Ciao!
Caitlin
  

Piazzale Michelangelo

We walked up to the Piazzale Michelangelo, which is on a big hill and overlooks the entire city. So, I got some pretty cool pictures...

On the way up...

The Viareggio Beach

Yesterday, Kristen and I took a 1 hour and 15 minute bus ride to the beach at Viareggio. The weather was beautiful and it was the perfect day trip. Now, I know the first thing that popped into your heads when I mentioned beach in Europe...