Today is quiz day! We went to school after studying the entire day and night before. We all felt like we were ready. Then she hands it out. 3 pages. Directions all in Italian. Uh oh. It was pretty rough. we'll see what my grade is tomorrow :-\. We also learned today that we can write some mini-essays to get extra credit. One page, double spaced, in Italian, about any place we visit. I am going to write about Florence, Portofino, Camogli (where we went today.. description coming), and Milan, where we are going this weekend. I might not write about ALL of those places, but at least 2 of them. Definitely Florence because that will be easy. "Siamo andati alla discoteca! Abbiamo ballato!" (We went to a discoteca. We danced!).
After school, we headed to the train station and took a quick, 30 minute train to Camogli, another coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea. Professoressa Branciforte lives there! It is a tiny little town, where most of the men still make their living off of the Sea. Every town we've been to has had a lot of similarities but every one is unique and interesting and special. Camogli was right on the sea, with small, black rocky beaches, huge cliffs, and brightly painted buildings. Like the other towns we have visited, the twn climbed up into the mountains, providing every home with a view of the sea and in the afternoon, a view of the sunset over the sea. Like Genoa and other places, Camogli had the fake painted rock patterns and fake windows on the buildings. Unlike the other towns, Camogli has an annual fish-frying day. There are these HUGE antique frying pans leaning against this one wall that were the ancient pans that were used. They were literally like 10 feet across! It is a giant feast and everyone in town gets a free meal. Camogli is right down the coast from Genoa and they can see each other. During the festival, people in Genoa can see the glowing red embers from the giant fires that are built to heat the giant pans and cook the fish.
In the town, we just walked around, ate some foccacia and gelato, and stared out at the Sea. The water was so amazingly clear and turquoise! I want to live on the water some day... or at least own a beach house.. in Italy... on a journalists salary ;-). High hopes right?
We were playing on the pier and I was chatting with Professoressa Branciforte (Suzanne), just asking some questions about her life, life in Camogli, and life in Italy in general. Very interesting and very different.
We took the train back to Genoa and watched the sunset on the Mediterranean Sea. I swear you can see every shade of every color in these sunsets!
Soon, we are going to go out to eat some pasta, then come back here, drink some wine, do some extra credit work, and relax. I hope we go eat soon because... ho fame e ho l'acquolina in bocca! (I'm hungry and my mouth is watering!)
Alla Prossima (Until next time) :-)
Continued... We went to this REALLY good restaurant called Il Rustichello. They had amazing, delicious traditional Italian food. I had some type of pasta with pesto on it and it was amazing! Everyone elses meals were really good too. Yum I love the food here! Now, I'm hanging out with all the other girls, drinking wine, and updating my blog and journal :-) But now its bed time!
Buonanotte!
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