yup yup

Yesterday was busy and expensive. I filled out and mailed my Permesso Siggiorno (an application to live in Italy that involved lots of photocopying, application, tax, stampage, and resulting fees). Luckily I was able to see Jess’ filled out form and watch Liane’s step by-step process before me at the post office. I’m glad to be finished with all that. Much more fun was trying on chef pants and chef clogs at the store, but then those had to be purchased too. I bought groceries and random household supplies for the first time here at a combination of the central market, the neighborhood grocery store, the Euro store (like a dollar store), and the pharmacy. But when all those errands were finished and all that money was spent, the clouds parted and the afternoon was beautiful.

Lunch was a pleasant break and a taste of America because Liane had made pizza bagels and chicken tenders. She keeps making jokes about not knowing how to cook and not being able to feed her future children, but she took care of lunch just fine. And she was pretty much Jack’s sous-chef when he made dinner for us (breaded chicken cutlets and pasta). Anna made a salad and provided the food. It’s funny how these meal dynamics are working. Different people provide the extra ingredients, cooking utensils, kitchen, tableware, silverware, wine, and dining space. Between the dozen or so of us, we have a pretty respectable dinner party. Yes, teamwork.

After dinner, we went to Gelateria dei Neri to get dessert. We’ve actually gone there before, but I didn’t recall the name or the location. Some of us hung out at Anna’s and played Truth or Dare at Liane’s suggestion because we’re preteens at heart apparently. When that got old, everyone else called it a night but Henk and I went out. (We’re the two with afternoon classes today.) Nothing crazy, just splitting a pitcher at a Scottish pub with more Italians than most of the bars we’ve been to.