So today I realized how short my time left in Italy is and
how much there is still left to do in my town. My 10:20 class was canceled for
whatever reason so I decided that instead of sitting in my room and doing
homework I would go to Alpina which is a café 3 minutes from campus. I ordered
a cappuccino and a breakfast pastry and worked on homework up until lunch. It
was so nice to just sit in an Italian café for a while and I cannot believe
that I had never taken advantage of it before.
The rest of my day when on like usual until 3 pm. Anthony
and I had decided to walk to the next town over which is about a 15 minute
walk. There we got some gelato despite the now freezing temperature. The sun
has consistently failed to shine this week and will do so throughout all of
Italy during out Easter weekend… But we still enjoyed it and as usual I got
nutella flavored gelato because it is easily my favorite. Tiramisu is a close
second though, followed by a strawberry and lemon mix. After gelato we walked
the next street over to the wine bar. There are a lot of vineyards in Northern
Italy near campus so many of them will open up smaller stores or bars in town
where you can actually by the bottles. At this particular one you can bring an
empty plastic bottle, like a water bottle, and they will fill it up for you. It
is usually about 1.70€ for a liter and a half where as a bottle with their
label can go from 5€ to 9.50 €! Between Anthony and me, we got 3 bottles for
tonight because it is our last night out at the pizzeria before the program
ends. Around 4:30 Anthony went to get a haircut and I headed back to campus
because team Let’s Get Weird had our last LEAP coaching session followed by
dinner at 5. Dinner is the next part of my very Italian day…
There is a hotel, Hotel Monte Grappa, about a 3 minute drive
from campus. They are known for having great pasta because, of course, it is
handmade. So that is where the 9 of us went for dinner. The pasta was SO good,
much better than the boxed stuff that we get on campus. I’m not even really
sure what mine was but it is quite possibly one of the best pasta dishes I have
ever had! While we were eating dinner a group of professors came in for dinner,
one of which was my marketing teacher who is the best teacher I have ever had.
When we were leaving he came up to us and asked him to help him with a prank he
wanted to pull on the class. He had heard that everyone was going to the
Pizzeria and so he asked us to spread the word when we went that he was going
to give a pop quiz in class the next morning at 8:25. Obviously he was kidding
but boy was it a good prank! People were panicking and some people even tried
to study for it, but we have been giving presentations for the past 3 days so
what they tried to study exactly, I don’t know….
Next and final part of my day: Al Sole. Like I said before,
it was the last night that we really had the chance to go to Al Sole before the
end of the program. Thursday night we would all be gone for Easter and wouldn't be back until Monday. Tuesday night we have our 3rd formal dinner
and exams start on Thursday and go until Saturday so Wednesday night we will
all be studying. I got there around 9 and there were all ready a good number of
people there but the place really got packed around 10. Out of the 126 of us in
the program I would argue that about 100 of us were packed in there along with
some random Italian students, some of the MBA student and a few professors here
and there. Basically it was awesome. We all had so much fun hanging out,
socializing, drinking, playing cards, and basically just celebrating the
semester. The whole night was like one big toast to the Pizzeria! After
Wednesday night though it’s probably a good thing we don’t have time to go
back, at least, I cannot imagine them wanting us to come back….
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