When in Rome...2

Part 2
As I wrote 2 posts ago, we have started having a different activity every Friday night. We are half way through our second round and the first rounds all went pretty well. The first 2 movie nights have gone great and we had a good turnout for both of them, Despicable Me and The Blind Side. 


The cooking school, which falls on the second Friday of each month, has been a great success. The first one, Debbie demonstrated how to make sweet tea with lemon, pot roast (with potatoes, carrots, onion, and celery) and green beans with butter, salt, and pepper, rolls with butter and berry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Oh my goodness, it was so good. I had to leave before it was over because I had band rehearsal but I got some leftovers that were awesome! The second cooking school was done by Laura, her first time to do it and she did great. The menu was meatloaf, potato casserole(the one with corn flakes on top), california cabbage and homemade chocolate chip cookies. I stayed and helped this time because Debbie was out of town and I'm not sure if we had rehearsal anyway. My contribution to this night was making the program/menu for the students to write on and take home and official title Assistant chef(which means I did what I needed to in the kitchen and then if Laura needed something during the presentation, I would get it. Ermenita also had this job.) Andrea was also assistant chef and helped a lot with the preparation of the food and she sat with students during the cooking school if there happened to be an awkward pause. Ryan and Peter were the dishwashers and they did a great job. With all of the help we finished at 10:30(which last time with just 3 people, they finished at 12ish)  Laura made this video from that night and it is great. 

Game Night is what I'm in charge of but I haven't actually gotten to do it yet. The first one I was gone to the women's covegno and this next one is tomorrow night. I think only 2 students came to the first one so they played scrabble, but I heard they had fun. Here is a picture that Ryan took  that night:

 

This past Friday the HUF students came to the game night with our Italian students. It was really exciting because we had a chili supper, a devo and then we played Pictionary(with English and Italian words). Sadly, the boys won in the lightening round but oh well. The HUF students really got into it and at the end we sang a song that Emily (and Sarah Bailey) wrote about Italy a few years ago. Here is a video of the night and of part of the song.

The fourth Friday of every month we have book club, that Andrea and Emily are in charge. This Friday they are going to Ferrara so Peter and I are in charge of the book club. We are doing the 3rd chapter of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. I haven't read it yet but the chapters aren't very long so I'll get on that. They had a good turn out of 7 or 8 at the last one and they studied the intro and the first 2 chapters of the book.


My birthday went really well and I had a great time with my friends and David even made some entertainment for us. Once again, here is a video of our entertainment and some pictures.