i love to laugh
Today was beautiful. This afternoon I daintily perched on the windowsill of our kitchen window and watched the little people of Perugia go about life during la pausa. As I was perching I watched a little vespa hit a little man. Was I concerned? Oh, no, no, no--I laughed. I am so bad. AND HE HEARD ME. It wasn’t really a hit, just a bump. I am so horrible.
All right, must catch up on the grab bagging.
Velvet
Excuse me, Velvet Fashion Café. Velvet. Blue. Loud music. It is said you should only wear black. That tends to be a problem for me. Posh-ish. I broke out my Posh Spice Pucker. An older crowd. American music. EXPENSIVE. I wore my fabulous leopard heels, which was a painful choice after dancing and then having to walk back up the hills.
Enone (there should be accents on the e’s
Wow. Swati and I were going expecting Sushi night. Sushi night ended last week. Poop. No, fabulous. We plopped down in our (not reserved, oops) seats and looked over the menu. Things looked good, the service was nice. It was time for Kate Korroch and Swati Shroff to actually have a really dinner out (we had to celebrate the first day of Umbra Classes). Wow, what a meal. We scoured the huge wine bible for a cheapish bottle. The cheapest was from Assisi, a white. It was acompanined with some little free sampler do das with toothpicks. Our appetizer we split. It was a cheese plate. The little man came out and explained each cheese for us. We were instructed to begin at 12 o’clock and continue around the plate in a clockwise path—mild to strong. The cheeses were amazing. I cannot tell you any of the names but they were incredible. One was an old favorite from Cortona, some form of pecorino . . . that’s all I can remember. Entree time. We split the two vegetarian options—a spinach flan and a mushroom risotto. Heaven. We concluded our dinner with what I like to call a chocolate volcano (what they served up on special occasions at toninos). Phew. Good.
We proceeded to café morlacchi to meet a bunch of our friends Morlacchi is my favorite place. There was a group playing. A blind woman playing on the piano and shriek singing. The aesthetic was amazing, not soft, howl almost but so involved and engrossed. Some of her singing reminded me of the music from Frida. Accompanying her was a man on guitar (who also sang) and a guy on trumpet. People were dancing around and just having a ball. It was beautiful.
Went to tandem last night, a bunch of Italian and a bunch of Americans are paired up and you speak. They guy I talked to gave me a flier for Speed Date Night—haha.
Classes, so far so good. We have only had two days. I dropped my da Vinci class and am now taking Contemporary Italy Soceity and Culture. I figure I should learn all of that if I am going to grad school here. . .
posted by Kate Korroch @ 10:47
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