Cakes and Lights

Novembre 29/30, 2010

Novembre 29, 2010

I went to the supermercato today and bought the necessary ingredients for my "Apple Cake". I did all the prep work and conversions, then baked it right before the kids got home from school. It turned out "OK". I wouldn't call it a success because it was a bit too 'oily' and a bit too 'sweet'... I can't call it a success until it has arrived at least close to the delectable perfection that I know it can be. The kids seemed to like it, but they'll like the next one even more. I then finished some homework then some 'skype-time'... just a chilled day. (note to self: give the cake at least 30 minutes to cool before trying to remove it from the bunt pan to avoid crumbling.)

Novembre 30, 2010

This morning I headed to school and we had a test over what we'd coved so far. There was 75% attendance, 3. All in all, the test was pretty easy. I'm hoping that after we all score fantastically on it, our teacher will get a little "harder" with the material. (not harder exactly, more like, let us go further, as of right now, I think we'll stop after we get to future tense, but there's so much more...)

After class, two of the girls and I walked to McDonalds to meet some peoples... we had an Au Pair party at McD's. (I swear I NEVER eat at McD's this much state side, I guess it is just more popular here or something, I don't know, it's cheap, I think that's why au pairs are drawn to it.)

Then, since there was strike on the Metro, Erica and I went to wait for the busses on via Tritone. After I got home we did homework and had dinner. Raffa bought me a calendario di festivale, a calendar to count down the days until Christmas, each day I open a little tab and eat a small chocolate. :) She said it's for kids, but I love it...

I went to go take some pictures of some Christmas decorations. There were some, but I can tell there's more to come. There was A big tree in piazza venezia, but it's not quite finished yet. Soon, I'll have more pictures. It was raining while I was taking pictures, but I stayed dry/warm enough. I went to Fontana di Trevi and at one point while I was there, there were literally 5 people in the Piazza...beautiful. :)

sometimes not being in a crowd is nice. ;)