Back in the swing of things

This week has been a weird one, as we all returned from Spring break and were expected to actually work? Yes, that is what I should be doing now, writing my 10 page paper which is due thursday or my case study (also 10 pages) which is due wednesday. But instead I am procrastinating and updating this blog- although there is not all that much to update on.
Classes have been going pretty well, I got back all my midterms and did really well on a few, and decent on the rest. I figure I should do better on finals since we have more time to study for them and I know what to expect now. I hope.
It's been weird to be back in Italy even after just a weekend in London. It was almost like experiencing what they call "culture shock" all over again- even though I was pretty convinced I never really felt any of that when I first came to Italy. I even forgot a lot of stuff from class, which is probably why most of my professors were calling it the week of tolerance and letting dumb things slide (especially in Italian class).
All of my friends seemed to have good spring breaks although this week was pretty busy and flew by for the most part and we have still not all discussed our spring breaks (since most of us did different things). However, I proposed we have slideshow presentations of our pictures so that may happen sometime this weekend- if we are all not too busy with this paper (most of us are in the food class so we all have to write the stupid paper).
Yesterday my friend Margaux got her hair cut in an Italian salon and I went to watch after I got our of class early and it was so much fun. The hairdresser was ridiculous and kept dancing with Meg and I and then started hitting on Meg which was kind of awkward but also funny. He made her his assistant and when we weren't sliding around on the floor she was helping him blow dry Margaux's hair-- which is now amazing. Who knew haircuts could be so much fun?
Then last night we cooked dinner for my professor (the one we ate dinner with a while back) and it was a lot of fun.
I think he was impressed with our cooking abilities (and the amount of food we made-aparently Italians only really eat one dish at home, which is weird because when they eat out there are all those courses)- I made fried eggplant for the appetizer and dan made some baked apple skins (as well as his world famous apple crisp for dessert), meg made the pasta concoction which was really good- sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, peppers, in a mushroom wine sauce with spaghetti, and margaux made salad. Yum. I love our dinners. It started at 8 and lasted till around 11:30 which was nice (and unexpected), and we had a large range of conversation topics.
Today (and hopefully Sunday) is more of a laid back day supposedly dedicated to working on my paper... and tomorrow the plan is to go to Ravenna and Rimini, two east coast towns in Italy. In Ravenna you can rent bikes for free and ride them around the town and Rimini is right on the water (also where Federico Fellini is from-- writer/director of La Dolce Vita... he's amazing) and the beach is supposed to be beautiful. I'm excited!
Hope everyone is doing well, I know the Elon spring break just started so I hope everyone has a fantastic break and that I hear from you all sometime soon!
Mi Manchi! (I miss you)