Not a whole lot more interesting things to say about today. Continued classes, who is surprised on that one? We turned in story plans, so I guess that kind of finalizes things? We don’t have to be 100% set until next Thursday, but I’m pretty excited about what we’ve talked about. We nailed down our jobs more, so I’m producing the story on gardens, writing on the ragazzi (Italian youth), video-ing the story on La Foccaceria, and photographing the story on driving. Should be very cool! We got lunch from one of the pizza places in town that does their pizzas on foccacia bread, which was pretty good. Everyone seems to rave about it…but I don’t know. It just seems rather inauthentic to me. It’s too similar to American pizza and it makes me feel like even the small towns of Italy are subject to Americanization. It’s a little sad. Honestly, I don’t miss anything from America right now (except friends and family) and I don’t really want to experience anything remotely American. I want to experience Italy, not some globalized version of Italy. Anywho, after classes we went to the small grocery store for a few things. Victoria and I both got espresso to make in our mocha pots.
It was quite exciting and Victoria, Charlotte, and I tried it out as soon as we got back. We were so proud of our Italian mocha pot skills! Victoria and I are both thinking about buying a mocha pot to take home. We just hung out for a while after our espresso and then started thinking about going to dinner. We were planning on going out somewhere for dinner in a little group, but when we found out everyone was going to dinner for John’s birthday, we decided to join them to celebrate. We went to Ristorante di Commercio and it was pretty good! I got the tagliata aromatica, which I’m pretty sure means something like herb steak, so basically it was a steak with an herb sauce over it (rosemary, basil, etc.). Quite delicious, but kind of over-cooked on the edges. I also tried a small piece of the regional specialty—chevallo (horsemeat). I what I tried was ground horsemeat with different herbs mixed in, and quite tasty! I thought about order the horsemeat steak for dinner, but I chickened out. We got gelato after dinner and found out that there were election speeches going on in the piazza. Tomorrow is elections for both the Mayor of Cagli because the current mayor is unable to serve another term, as well as the European Parliament. There are quite a few posters around for different parties—of which there are many.
I’ve probably seen posters for at least five different parties, which is kind of embedded in Italian governmental history. Everyone was gathered in the piazza and we were told the speeches would go on until at least midnight. Romano introduced us to his son, Simone, who is a journalist. Cool guy. I hope we get a chance to talk to him again. He seemed less than enthused about our story ideas, but I don’t think he views Cagli the same way we do. After gelato we headed back to Casa Lapis to hang out for a while and ended up chatting with Carol for a good couple hours. Good day, but I’m ready for the weekend so I can sleep in tomorrow! YES!
It was quite exciting and Victoria, Charlotte, and I tried it out as soon as we got back. We were so proud of our Italian mocha pot skills! Victoria and I are both thinking about buying a mocha pot to take home. We just hung out for a while after our espresso and then started thinking about going to dinner. We were planning on going out somewhere for dinner in a little group, but when we found out everyone was going to dinner for John’s birthday, we decided to join them to celebrate. We went to Ristorante di Commercio and it was pretty good! I got the tagliata aromatica, which I’m pretty sure means something like herb steak, so basically it was a steak with an herb sauce over it (rosemary, basil, etc.). Quite delicious, but kind of over-cooked on the edges. I also tried a small piece of the regional specialty—chevallo (horsemeat). I what I tried was ground horsemeat with different herbs mixed in, and quite tasty! I thought about order the horsemeat steak for dinner, but I chickened out. We got gelato after dinner and found out that there were election speeches going on in the piazza. Tomorrow is elections for both the Mayor of Cagli because the current mayor is unable to serve another term, as well as the European Parliament. There are quite a few posters around for different parties—of which there are many. 
I’ve probably seen posters for at least five different parties, which is kind of embedded in Italian governmental history. Everyone was gathered in the piazza and we were told the speeches would go on until at least midnight. Romano introduced us to his son, Simone, who is a journalist. Cool guy. I hope we get a chance to talk to him again. He seemed less than enthused about our story ideas, but I don’t think he views Cagli the same way we do. After gelato we headed back to Casa Lapis to hang out for a while and ended up chatting with Carol for a good couple hours. Good day, but I’m ready for the weekend so I can sleep in tomorrow! YES!
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